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Position Summary:

This position is primarily responsible for performing and coordinating numerous corporate law, contracting, regulatory and litigation activities, all under the supervision of the General Counsel.

I. Position Responsibilities: Essential

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Contracts

• Control, organize and maintain clinician employment agreements, hospital service agreements, and vendor agreements – ensuring company’s contract documents are accurate and well maintained.
• Understand the basic principles of contract law and legal terminology to successfully interpret, explain, and negotiate employment agreements and vendor agreements.
• Be skilled in legal writing in order to draft a variety of contracts to include amendments, addendums, waivers, memorandums of understanding, etc., and to also provide redlined recommendations to existing contracts.
• Provide guidance and serve as point-of-contact between clinicians/operations and vendors/contract owners.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes and devise plans to implement changes. Recognize company’s current needs as well as long-term objectives and provide recommendations to meet changing environment.
• Conduct audits on various executed contracts and produce final reports of audit findings.

Regulatory Compliance

• Control, organize and maintain corporate records for OBHG companies.
• Timely prepare, draft, file and manage various business entity documents for corporations and LLCs.
• Conduct state statutory research to adhere to laws, regulations, and guidelines associated with registering to do business within a state and maintaining good standing within a state.
• Responsible for establishing relationship with registered agent in each state doing business.

Litigation and Subpoenas

• Control, organize, and manage litigation and subpoena files.
• Issue, track and maintain litigation hold and preservation notices.
• Coordinate and collect documents and other relevant information. Review and analyze reports, responses and records. Prepare summaries and document indexes.
• Assist with fact-finding investigations, legal research and initial case assessments.
• Perform administrative duties such as scheduling interviews, depositions, etc.
• Be knowledgeable regarding requests for information and documents, via third-party subpoenas and requests for information.

Additional Responsibilities

• Draft policies and procedures for various legal department related functions.
• Manage processing and tracking of invoices from legal vendors.
• Represent legal department in meetings.
• Handle special projects and other duties, as assigned.

II. Essential Skills/Credentials/Experience/Education

• Understand business law and litigation legalese.
• Strong organizational, analytical and written/verbal communication skills, strong research and writing skills, attention to detail, the ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Core Values – Consistently exemplifies our Core Values.
• Attention to Detail – Carefully follows procedures; persistently pursues open items; diligently completes tasks.
• Organized – Maintains accurate and up-to-date files; ensures others can easily obtain needed documents or information.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Technical Skills - Assesses own strengths and weaknesses; Pursues training and development opportunities; Asks questions to increase knowledge; Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
• Interpersonal Skills - Maintains confidentiality; Is service oriented; Able to build relationships with people in other departments.
• Oral Communication - Speaks clearly; Listens and asks for clarification to ensure understanding.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; Edits work for spelling and grammar; Varies writing style to meet needs; Able to read and interpret written information.
• Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Sets goals and objectives.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Dependability - Follows instructions; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan if needed.
• Initiative - Volunteers readily; Asks for and offers help when needed.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat and AdobeSign

III. Preferred Skills/Credentials/Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university.
• Paralegal Degree from Accredited Paralegal Institution or four years work experience as a corporate or generalist paralegal.
• Experience working with clinicians and/or hospitals is desirable.

IV. Mental and Physical Demands (per ADA guidelines)

Physical Demands:

• Sitting for long periods of time.
• Position also requires walking, standing, stooping or kneeling.
• Regularly requires using computer keyboard, mouse and telephone
• Lifting and carrying objects such as books and files weighing up to 15 pounds.
• Close vision work and ability to adjust focus.