Junior Counsel

Provides legal support to attorneys and business units. Ensure compliance with Chevron policies, perform legal research and due diligence, analyze legal issues, and recommends solutions to attorneys, business partners, and managers.
** Job Description Template**

**Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to**:

- Management, supervision and follow-up local and regional litigation proceedings and transactional matters, which requires working closely with external counsel.
- Gather and analyze documents regarding commercial, civil, labor matters to support the answers to the lawsuits or requests throughout judicial or administrative proceedings.
- Support DCM egal Manager in the external attorneys retention procedure, and in the process for hiring external consultants or law firms.
- Handle requests from government agencies, and other public and judicial authorities, and ensure that the company responds timely and satisfactorily.
- Support DCM Legal Manager in handling documents associated with legal processes, finding and collecting evidence to be submitted as evidence in Trials.
- Prepare the data and keep Regional and local cases risk analysis updated (COBALT Technique).
- Management of Law Function tools (such as TeamConnect) to gather information about Regional and local proceedings and keeping the records under a legal analysis perspective. Prepare reports, summaries and presentations based on data reported in TeamConnect.
- Collaborate with legal team to manage preservation of documents and data collection.
- Organize and track files for critical and sensitive transactions or case documents.
- Manage the internal expenses and the litigation budget (Business Plan). This includes control over and follow-up of fees/expenditures for judicial processes (local and Regional) and preparing periodical reports regarding internal legal cost, external counsel cost and litigation cost.
- Conduct legal research to support business cases, lawsuits, presentations and legal trainings.
- Supervise and support the Administrative Assistant’s tasks.
- Management of Corporate PoAs to ensure proper legal representation of Chevron entities.
- Handle legal documentation (contracts, letters, certificates, payment agreements, agendas, authorizations, accounts report, etc.) to meet internal and external clients' requirements.
- Provide legal support for maritime operations of C.I. Chevron Export S.A.S. and Nueva Sociedad Portuaria Zona Atlántica S.A., including handling requests from government entities.
- Management of corporate bodies meetings of Chevron Colombia companies.
- Handle the processes that contain personal and sensitive data, according to the corporate policies to ensure that information is properly protected and remediate gaps identified in the risk assessments.
- Drafting of local Guidelines to comply with Colombian legislation and corporate policies.

**Required Qualifications**:

- Education: Law Degree
- Quantified experience: at least one year.
- Bilingual with Legal-English proficiency
- ** Preferred Qualifications**:

- Education/Certifications: special knowledge of corporate, commercial and/or procedural law.
- Work experience in internal or external corporate legal counsel

**Relocation Options**:
Relocation will** not be **considered.

**International Considerations**:
Expatriate assignments **will not be** considered.

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