Summary:
Reports to the General Counsel. Provides legal services for Brown University Health (the �Corporation�) and its corporate affiliates through their directors trustees executive officers physicians professional staff and management. Primarily focuses on corporate matters including transactions (such as join ventures acquisitions mergers and divestitures) financings and the maintenance of corporate formality through meeting minutes and written consents and other corporate documents. Aids in assuring that all operations of the Corporation are in compliance with federal state and local laws and regulations. Assists and advises the Corporation in order to maintain a solid legal foundation upon which to conduct the business activities of a complex health care delivery organization. Takes initiative to facilitate system-wide solutions and applies a system-wide perspective to the resolution of internal conflicts.
Responsibilities:
Consults with all levels of management reviews a broad scope of Corporate activities services and products (existing and proposed) for legal ramifications and makes recommendations when appropriate. Reviews negotiates drafts and/or approves contracts and other legal documents relating to Corporate operations prior to execution. Provides advice and consultation on the applicability and interpretation of laws and regulations. Interfaces on behalf of the Corporation with public regulatory and administrative agencies. Works with the General Counsel to assure corporate formality is respected through the appropriate documentation of corporate action including the creation maintenance and preservation of records evidencing such action.
Assists in the development of the law department�s annual operating and capital budgets. Assists in supervising and monitoring the operations of the law department in general and the law department�s business administrator in particular. Upon requests handles all or certain aspect of the Corporation�s workforce information system as it pertains to the Law Department including requests for time off. Assists the General Counsel in introducing technology and innovation to the Law Department�s operations in order to create efficiencies.
Reviews and evaluates outside legal services and expenses through the use of an electronic invoice and payment tracking system and makes recommendations for promoting cost-effective expenditures on legal matters ensuring services are performed in accordance with agreed-upon standards for same. Assists in the selection and retention of outside legal counsel when necessary based on costs and quality factors all of which may be as part of a request-for-proposal selection process. Provides legal services for certain types of routine or threatened litigation and administrative proceedings. Manages outside litigation counsel and litigation matters. Engages in negotiations with opposing counsel and settles as authorized litigation potential litigation or administrative proceedings by or against the Corporation.
Drafts and/or reviews retainer agreements with outside law firms. Reviews and resolves ethical conflicts with outside law firms.
Provides mentoring and legal advice to other members of the law department upon request providing guidance and counsel in resolving complex and/or sensitive problems. Coordinates when needed such as when the General Counsel is not readily available the delivery of legal services by the Law Department in general and by the other members of the Law Department in particular. May supervise less experienced attorneys including preparing performance plans professional development plans performance reviews and the like. On a temporary basis at the request of the President of the Corporation assumes the responsibilities of the General Counsel when the General Counsel is not readily available.
The Vice President and Deputy General Counsel � Corporate and Transactions generally works on matters of greater complexity and interacts more with members of the boards board committees and the President of the Corporation than either an Assistant General Counsel or an Associate General Counsel.
Assists in the analysis of proposed and pending legislation and the Corporation�s position with respect thereto.
Participates in councils quality improvement teams and other such meetings and committees as needed. Participates in professional development and continuing education activities and maintains desired professional affiliations.
Performs other projects and assignments as requested.
This position requires on-site presence for visibility and accountability purposes several times a week. Over time with the consent of the General Counsel and depending upon conditions the duties of Vice President and Deputy General Counsel may be performed on a more remote basis.
WORK OUTPUTS:
Producing standardized contracts policies and processes while creating appropriate uniformity with respect to all legal issues.Independently facilitating negotiating and integrating complex corporate and financing transactions.Analyzing and advising management and governance concerning complex and varied regulatory compliance matters.Facilitating internal integration and coordination of service lines and businesses particularly through legal structures and arrangements that incorporate the fiscal and operational impact of decisions and actions.Advising with respect to multiple and widely varied miscellaneous contracts patient matters and day-to-day issues.Dealing with intellectual property issues nationally and internationally.Taking and recommending action to avoid litigation including medical malpractice risk management commercial employment and public agency litigation management.Applying knowledge of the affairs of the Corporation to complex state and national mandates laws and regulations as well as vice-versa.Advising senior management physicians professional staff boards and board committees.Leading teams both within the Law Department and more generally within the Corporation.
COMPETENCIES:
Knowledge of law as it is applied in the health care organization and deliveryKnowledge of organization and delivery of health care servicesAnalytical insightTeamwork and collaboration and the ability to lead teams and engage appropriate stakeholdersSystems perspectiveRecognition of competing interests and ability to formulate satisfactory solutions
SKILLS:
WritingPresentationCommunicationConsultationRelationship-buildingLeadership
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
Based on work outputs and demonstrated skills as observed and recorded through feedback provided by immediate supervisor peers and department staff.
Other information:
QUALIFICATIONS � EDUCATION:
Juris Doctorate degree and admission to a state bar.
QUALIFICATIONS � EXPERIENCE:
Minimum ten years of experience practicing health care transactional law either in a law firm with attorneys exclusively practicing health law or in a corporate legal department within a health care provider organization or health care insurer. Significant work experience in the management or delivery of health care services may be substituted for a maximum of one year of full-time health care law practice. Significant work experience in the practice of law in other settings may be substituted for a maximum of one year of full-time health care law practice.
SUPERVISION:
Supervisory responsibility as delegated by the General Counsel.
Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age ethnicity sexual orientation ancestry genetics gender identity or expression disability protected veteran or marital status. Brown University Health is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Location: Brown University Health Corporate Services USA:RI:Providence
Work Type: Full Time
Shift: Shift 1
Union: Non-Union