Mentorship with students
Volunteering with United Way
Family vacations
Samantha Granberry
League City,TX
Summary
Legal professional with proven record of delivering strategic legal counsel and support. Valued for ability to navigate complex legal frameworks and drive impactful decision-making. Known for fostering collaborative team environments and adapting to evolving legal challenges while maintaining results-driven focus.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Legal Counsel
Enbridge, Inc.
11.2022 - Current
- Supports the IT and supply chain departments by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of IT-related contracts, including software licenses, service agreements, and technology procurement.
- Reviews and negotiates a wide variety of agreements including but not limited to wind farm agreements, aviation agreements, joint venture arrangements, construction-related agreements, consulting agreements, engineering services agreements, confidentiality agreements, etc.
- Serves as Houston Chapter Lead for the Enbridge Legal Mentorship Program: Created program for mentorship opportunities with Enbridge Legal Counsel throughout the United States. Built a summer program for Houston’s first summer legal internship for law students. Engages in panel discussions at different law schools within Houston to enhance “in-house counsel” knowledge for students.
- Conduct legal research on emerging technologies, data privacy, and cybersecurity laws to keep the organization abreast of evolving legal requirements.
- Support our cybersecurity and privacy teams by providing reviews and advice on agreements with our service providers and vendors.
- Collaborate closely with IT stakeholders to understand business goals, assess legal implications, and provide proactive legal advice for strategic decision-making.
- Develop and implement AI policies and procedures to safeguard Enbridge's IT assets, intellectual property, and confidential information.
Attorney
The Law Office of Samantha Granberry, PLLC (Solo Practice)
04.2021 - Current
- Assist clients with estate planning needs including creating wills, trusts, deeds, probate, etc.
- Draft and file documents and attend hearings for breach of contract cases.
- Provide expungement and non-disclosure services for clients in need of clearing their criminal record.
- Participate and accept pro-bono cases with Houston Volunteer Lawyers Association with estate planning and criminal record cleaning cases.
- Provide non-disclosure agreement drafting/negotiating services for small business owners.
Contracts Attorney
Iland Cloud /11:11 Systems
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Negotiated, drafted, updated, and maintained customer and partner agreements and supplier procurement and service agreements including: non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, data processing agreements, business associate agreements, service orders, commercial terms of service, etc.
- Reviewed marketing promotional terms to identify any copyright, trademark or contractual legal issues.
- Maintained customer renewals and contract amendments for current customers.
- Responded to demand letters and customer disputes as an attempt to resolve matters before outside counsel is required.
- Updated and maintained contracts database and tracker to ensure timely turnaround times with internal requests.
Contract Administrator II
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
03.2019 - 11.2021
- Negotiated terms and conditions for services under Master Services Agreements and Major Construction Agreements for high-dollar projects.
- Issued purchase orders and completed the bidding process for project managers.
- Promoted and ensured policies are being followed by Kinder Morgan employees with bidding, agreements, invoicing, etc.
- Provided training to all new hires on policies and procedures for procurement day to day tasks.
- Created and lead cost saving initiatives and policy changes within procurement to ensure KM employees are following proper procedures while promoting decreases in costs.
- Analyzed audit policy and requested changes and lead the compliance team by hosting meetings and gathering data in internal and external departments to provide resources for the requested changes.
- Assisted internal and external customers with meeting objectives of cost, quality and schedule while maintaining positive working relationships.
Senior Law Clerk
Kearney, McWilliams & Davis, PLLC Law Firm
10.2017 - 03.2019
- Prepared title opinions by assisting with analyzing landman’s run-sheets, drafting oil and gas leases, drafting assignments and formatting opinion for finalization.
- Drafted legal documents including complaints, declarations, discovery responses, and other pleadings and motions.
- Researched legal issues on topics including title disputes, midstream acquisitions, federal jurisdiction and unemployment disputes, etc.
- Served as customer service for incoming calls for inquiries on legal advice and set up consultations between clients and attorneys.
Senior Data Analyst
Applus RTD
10.2014 - 10.2017
- Analyzed and created reports using data from In-line Inspection tools that capture anomalies found on pipelines for Client’s Archives.
- Served as a liaison between technicians and clients regarding technical questions on reports and reviewed and corrected any inconsistencies or discrepancies.
- Created and maintained a database for tracking reports per CEO’s request to improve turnaround time for the reporting process.
- Responsible for training new hires for the department and in charge of delegating work to other team members for achievable deadlines.
Education
J.D. -
South Texas College of Law
Houston12-2019
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Texas At San Antonio
San Antonio07-2014
Skills
- Contract drafting
- Legal research
- Legal writing
- Mergers and acquisitions
Skills and Extra Curriculars
Houston Volunteer Lawyers Association Volunteer United Way Volunteer
Affiliations
Houston Volunteer Lawyers Association
United Way Volunteer
Houston Bar Association
Interests
Timeline
Legal Counsel
Enbridge, Inc.
11.2022 - Current
Contracts Attorney
Iland Cloud /11:11 Systems
11.2021 - 11.2022
Attorney
The Law Office of Samantha Granberry, PLLC (Solo Practice)
04.2021 - Current
Contract Administrator II
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
03.2019 - 11.2021
Senior Law Clerk
Kearney, McWilliams & Davis, PLLC Law Firm
10.2017 - 03.2019
Senior Data Analyst
Applus RTD
10.2014 - 10.2017
J.D. -
South Texas College of Law
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Texas At San Antonio
Legal Innovator Finalist 2025 - Texas Legal Awards
Nominated by Enbridge as the Legal Innovator pushing for young lawyers or law students in the legal space for in house opportunities and chosen as a top three finalists.