Job Details

Houston energy work is evolving faster than most law firms' staffing models.

Five years ago, the associate in your seat was running upstream acquisition agreements and midstream JV docs — and that was the whole practice. Today the same clients are doing LNG infrastructure deals, renewable power acquisitions, carbon capture JVs, and commodity trading arrangements, sometimes in the same quarter. The work has gotten broader, more complex, and more interesting. But your firm hasn't kept up.

You're still siloed. You're either on the upstream M&A team turning PSAs for E&P acquisitions, or you're in the project finance group reviewing EPC contracts — but you're not getting the cross-sector exposure that makes an energy transactional lawyer actually valuable in this market. Houston has more energy deal flow than any city in the world, and you're seeing one slice of it.

An elite AmLaw firm with one of the most recognized energy practices globally is adding a mid- to senior-level associate to its Houston energy transactions team. This isn't a corporate group that happens to do some energy work. This is a dedicated energy transactional platform that covers the full spectrum — oil and gas, power, renewables, infrastructure, and energy transition — and they want associates who can work across all of it.

The work includes:

• M&A and joint ventures across upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas
• Project development and infrastructure transactions in conventional and renewable power
• Energy transition work — carbon capture, hydrogen, battery storage, renewable acquisitions
• Commodities transactions and commercial energy agreements

What you bring:

• 3-7 years of energy transactional experience at a major law firm
• Exposure across more than one sector — upstream, midstream, downstream, power, or renewables
• Strong drafting skills and the ability to run deal workstreams, not just staff them
• Texas bar or eligibility

What you get:

• A platform where energy transactions is the practice, not a subcategory inside a generalist corporate group
• Cross-sector deal flow that builds a portable skill set, not a narrow one
• Cravath scale ($260K-$420K+ depending on class year)

Reach out directly or send your resume confidentially to srushing@laterallink.com