Albemarle

Albemarle

Associate General Counsel - Litigation & HSE

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America · Senior

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About the role

  • Position Title: Associate General Counsel - Litigation & HSE
  • This senior role will provide strategic, risk-based advice to business and legal stakeholders, oversee outside counsel, and help protect the Company's commercial, operational, governance, environmental, and reputational interests.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a portfolio of complex civil litigation, arbitration, regulatory, administrative, and pre-litigation matters involving the Company and its subsidiaries or affiliates.
  • Develop and execute litigation strategies that align with the Company's legal, business, operational, and reputational objectives.
  • Supervise and manage outside counsel, including counsel selection, case strategy, budgets, work product, and matter performance.
  • Lead pre-litigation dispute resolution efforts, including demand letters, negotiations, mediation, fact development, and early case assessment.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate litigation, commercial, HSE, environmental, and regulatory risks arising from operations, transactions, compliance issues, and strategic initiatives.
  • Support corporate governance and compliance matters as needed, including disputes involving boards, officers, subsidiaries, governance processes, investigations, internal controls, and HSE or environmental compliance issues.
  • Manage litigation holds, document preservation, e-discovery, data collection, document review, privilege issues, and coordination with IT, records management, compliance, and business teams.
  • Conduct and support internal investigations related to litigation, regulatory, HSE, environmental, compliance, employment, commercial, operational, or governance matters.
  • Monitor relevant legal, HSE, environmental, and regulatory developments and support legal department initiatives, including process improvements, outside counsel management, compliance enhancements, and dispute-related training.
  • The Company is seeking an experienced, business-oriented Associate General Counsel - Litigation & HSE to manage complex litigation, regulatory disputes, pre-litigation matters, and HSE/environmental legal matters across the Company's operations.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
  • Minimum of 10 years of litigation experience, gained in a law firm, in-house legal department, government agency, or a combination of these environments.
  • Strong understanding of litigation procedures, discovery obligations, privilege, evidence preservation, settlement strategy, and dispute resolution processes.

Nice to have

  • Prior in-house litigation experience within a corporate legal department.
  • Litigation experience in the energy, utilities, infrastructure, mining, natural resources, environmental, manufacturing, or other heavily regulated sectors.
  • Experience handling disputes involving federal, state, or local regulatory agencies.
  • Experience with environmental, permitting, land use, operational, safety, incident response, remediation, or regulatory matters affecting energy or natural resources businesses.
  • Experience advising on corporate governance, board-related matters, internal investigations, compliance programs, or enterprise risk management.
  • Experience managing large-scale e-discovery, litigation holds, outside counsel budgets, alternative fee arrangements, litigation reporting, or matter management systems.
  • Trial, arbitration, mediation, deposition, or significant motion practice experience.
  • Licensed to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction.

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Advise on settlement authority, litigation reserves, case valuation, insurance coverage, remediation obligations, and other financial or operational implications of disputes.

Company info

  • Be an essential element to a brighter future.
  • We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health.
  • Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind.
  • Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet.
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