Jack Balagia, vice president and general counsel for ExxonMobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), will retire, effective Nov. 1, after more than 18 years at the company, according to an Oct. 3 press release.

The board of directors will likely elect Randall Ebner as vice president and general counsel. Ebner is currently assistant general counsel.

Balagia joined the law department of Exxon Co. USA in May 1998 as counsel in the litigation group, working in Houston. He became coordinator for upstream litigation in 1999 and assistant general counsel in 2004. He became vice president and general counsel in March 2010.

Balagia is a member of the board of directors of the National Center for State Courts, co-chair of the Civil Justice Reform Group and vice chair of the University of Texas Law School Foundation board of trustees.

Balagia earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Ebner joined the law department of Exxon Co. USA in May 1980 in New Orleans as an attorney in the litigation group. He became coordinator of upstream litigation in Houston in 1998, and then became chief attorney of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. in 2000 and chief attorney of ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Co. in 2003. He then became assistant general counsel for the corporation in 2009.

Ebner earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and a law degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.