Assistant Legal Counsel

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Assistant Legal Counsel

Req ID

26103BR

Department

Legal

Organization

Beth Israel Deaconess

Employment Status

Full Time

Shift

Day

Hours

40 Hours

City

Boston

Job Category

Professional & Management

Job Posting

Job Summary: The Assistant General Counsel reports to a Deputy Counsel. This position is responsible for assisting the Office of the General Counsel in providing legal advice on a range of substantive issues to a leading academic medical center and its affiliated entities. The attorney may assist in representing the entities in: business matters; corporate matters; real estate matters; governance matters; labor and employment law; medical staff and credentialing issues; patient issues; litigation; contract drafting, review and negotiation; transactional matters; and compliance and regulatory issues. The attorney must maintain excellent relationships with all levels of employees and management within the medical center and its affiliated institutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

Drafts and negotiates contracts and agreements including physician arrangements, services agreements, and research funding agreements. Assists in advising clients about the impact of recent regulatory and legislative changes and guidance.
Maintains thorough and current knowledge of federal and state laws, rules, and regulations concerned with healthcare.
Assists in representing clients before regulatory/licensing agencies, including the Department of Public Health, the Board of Registration in Medicine, the Attorney General's Office, and other federal and state agencies.
Assists in representing clients in complex transactional matters including working in close collaboration with clients to understand the goals of the transaction, drafting documents, successfully negotiating documents, and bringing the transaction to a successful conclusion.
Covers 'on-call' legal responsibility for the Office of the General Counsel, as assigned, and responds to patient issues as they arise during business hours.

Required Qualifications:

Doctoral degree in Juris Doctorate required.
3-5 years related work experience required.
JD with admission to the Massachusetts bar.
Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.


Physical Nature of the Job:
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally in carrying, lifting, pushing, pulling objects. Sitting most of the time, with walking and standing required only occasionally

Department Description

The Office of General Counsel provides legal advice on a range of substantive issues to a leading academic medical center and its affiliated entities.

EOE Statement

BIDMC is EOE M/F/VET/DISABILITY/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUAL ORIENTATION

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