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Aurora Health Care · 2 months ago

Associate General Counsel (IT Contracting)

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$85/hr - $136/hr

2+ years exp

Aurora Health Care is seeking an Associate General Counsel focusing on IT Contracting. This role involves executing legal projects, providing legal advice to mitigate risks, and managing outside legal relationships while supporting the legal department's strategic imperatives.

Health Care

Responsibilities

Execute legal or business projects requiring legal involvement with a moderate level of independence and oversight from more senior attorneys as needed

Support and mentor peers, less senior attorneys, paralegals, and/or other Department staff members

Analyzes legal and regulatory risks of the enterprise and offers practical, effective legal solutions that further the mission and business interests of the enterprise

Delivers effective legal advice while protecting enterprise interests and mitigating legal and reputational risk, instilling a culture of responsibility and ethical behavior

Contributes to material strategic imperatives of the practice group and the Department at the direction of the practice group leader and other senior Legal Department leadership

Provides input and advice regarding the assessment and management of outside legal relationships related to the practice group and retains and oversees the performance of outside counsel as required at the direction of the practice group leader

Assists the practice group leader in the management of the legal budget, including internal staff, outside counsel, and other expenditures related to the practice group

Responsible for understanding and adhering to the enterprise Code of Conduct and ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations, and laws applicable to the enterprise's business

Qualification

Licensed AttorneyLegal Risk AssessmentContract NegotiationPolicy DevelopmentIntellectual CuriosityLeadership SkillsCommunication SkillsTime ManagementAdaptability

Required

Attorney must be licensed and registered as required by applicable law

Doctorate Degree in Law from an accredited law school

Typically requires 2-6 years of experience providing legal services within a law firm or as in-house legal counsel

Ability to support Legal Department leadership and business clients on business and legal strategy, while assessing, communicating, managing, and mitigating legal risk to the enterprise

Ability to analyze, develop, review, negotiate, and present corporate contracts and other legal documents to executive, administrative, and management staff and third parties

Ability to develop, approve, and interpret policies within various sub-functions and departments

Ability to effectively leverage the use of outside counsel while controlling outside counsel costs

Ability to work effectively with governmental and other regulatory agencies to protect the best interests of the enterprise

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees, which is necessary to collaborate with staff, management, executives and other organizations

Excellent leadership and motivational skills

Adaptable to change, supports transformation, and helps drive strategic objectives

Self-directed with strong time management and organizational skills

Manages time-sensitive/deadline-driven projects

Flexible and committed to the team concept

Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn

Readily contribute to diversity goals and initiatives

Driven by organizational mission, vision, and core values

Will limit access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job

Will share information only on a need-to-know basis for work purposes

Access to verbal, written, and electronic PHI for this job has been determined based on job level and job responsibility within the organization

Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is controlled via user ID and password