Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. announced the appointment of Charles R. Kraus as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary effective September 2, 2014. Mr. Kraus is a Canadian and U.S. qualified lawyer, and joins Bellatrix from another Calgary-based oil and gas exploration and development company where he was an executive officer and the general counsel for the past 3 years. Prior thereto, Mr. Kraus was in private practice for 10 years, most recently with the Calgary office of Stikeman Elliott LLP, where he focused on cross-border public and private capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.