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Highmark Health · 1 week ago

Senior Counsel - Healthcare/Regulatory

Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Highmark Health is a leading healthcare organization seeking a Senior Counsel specializing in Healthcare and Regulatory matters. This role involves providing legal support, managing litigation, and offering strategic legal advice based on comprehensive legal research and analysis.

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Responsibilities

Provide regular legal support for one or more discrete units of the Corporation; demonstrate deep knowledge of the Corporation’s business, while retaining the discipline of legal analysis; interpret law and apply to internal / external business issues and recommend best practices; provide timely, accurate, comprehensive, thorough and practical legal advice and prepare effective documents based upon knowledge of federal, state and other applicable law and the regulatory environment in which the Corporation functions; apply sound business judgment to the provision of legal advice; have highly advanced expertise in areas of legal practice that are necessary to effectively provide legal counsel; is viewed as a subject matter expert; provide results of analysis to other attorneys in the Law Department (“Department”) or directly to appropriate management and staff of the Corporation; provide legal advice to management and staff of the Department

Maintain positive, responsive, consistent and effective relationships with other members of the Department, as well as management and other staff of the Corporation, and teams of inside / outside counsel; mentor attorneys and paralegals; educate internal customers on legal issues; maintain and foster productive relationships between the Corporation and external parties

Manage litigation, transactions or other matters and/or assist and work cooperatively with and/or supervise outside legal counsel, including outside lawyers from approved law firms used by the Corporation; may direct such work of outside legal counsel or facilitate such work of outside counsel to address issues effectively and efficiently, including minimizing outside legal counsel fees and expenses, as appropriate

Have excellent skills in preparing precise, thorough and responsive legal memoranda, contracts, pleadings, analyses, correspondence and other relevant documents; perform legal research and investigate facts; exhibit a strong attention to detail and work ethic; able to handle complex legal matters or projects independently

Should have excellent decision-making capability and should be highly proficient in being able to make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations

Investigate highly complex situations and present well-reasoned, broad perspective, innovative and creative solutions and alternatives based upon independent legal research and analysis of the facts and the law

Ability to easily engage in two-way communication and solicit and accept feedback

Excellent negotiating skills with outside parties

Able to juggle multiple matters and effectively multi-task and prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely, thorough, comprehensive and efficient manner

Will work through goals and objectives despite changing priorities and demonstrate the willingness to do things differently

Will seek out challenging tasks and assignments, engage in frequent development discussions, set his/her own career goals and development plans and execute against them; is open to feedback and effectively adapts / changes as a result of such feedback

Other duties as assigned or requested

Qualification

Juris DoctorateLicense to practice lawHealthcare law expertiseLegal researchNegotiation skillsProfessional ethicsCommunication skillsRelationship buildingClient focusedProblem-solving capabilitiesConfidentiality standards

Required

Juris Doctorate

10 years of elated, progressive law experience that is deeper in the area of relevant specialization

7 years in related disciplines, such as insurance regulation, health law, general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, antitrust, employee benefits, intellectual property and litigation

License to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or applicable state (DE, WV or NY); or eligible for admission within one year of hire

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Strong written and oral communication skills

Strong relationship building skills

Client focused with strong business acumen

Self-starter with the ability to work under pressure independently and as part of a team

Ability to think strategically and act proactively to create strong trust and confidence with business units

Strong innovative problem-solving capabilities

Keep current on recent developments in the law and develop in-depth knowledge of one or more areas of the law which are applicable to the Corporation's business

Observe high standards of confidentiality consistent with all applicable laws, professional standards and requirements of the Corporation

Observe high personal and professional ethics