Managing Senior Staff Attorney or Managing Senior Counsel - Issues of National Importance (Location: DC or NYC)

Purpose

Position Description:

The position’s primary responsibilities will revolve around PPL&L’s work on issues of national importance regarding reproductive healthcare, with an emphasis on intersections of PPL&L’s litigation and policy work with legislative, regulatory, operational, clinical, and risk assessment and mitigation matters. The position may also include some supervising and engaging in litigation on the above and related issues.

The MSSA or MSC will also serve as the manager of several attorneys within the department and represent the interests of their direct reports to the management team of PPL&L.

Engagement

The MSSA or MSC will work closely with other members of the PPL&L team as well as affiliate leadership and staff, other PPFA colleagues, coalition partners, and outside counsel.

Delivery

The MSSA or MSC will work closely with the Vice President, National Legal Director, and other colleagues to develop and execute strategy on a range of issues of national importance where PPL&L’s work intersects with legislative, regulatory, operational, clinical, and risk assessment/mitigation matters. This includes:

• Working closely with legal, operational and clinical personnel to advise clients and drive strategy in navigating risk in a rapidly shifting post-Roe environment
• Coordinating with internal and coalition colleagues around legislative and regulatory matters with significant litigation implications
• Ensuring that high-level operational, policy, and communications strategies are informed by litigation and public policy risks and opportunities
• Monitoring key litigation and advising clients about issues it implicates, such as issues relating to compliance, risk, litigation, legislative and regulatory strategy, and communications
  
  

The MMSA or MSC should expect to lead and collaborate on a substantial and dynamic portfolio of issues in a fast-paced environment. Current and recent areas of focus include attacks on medication abortion; patients’ rights to travel across state lines to access abortion and other health care; attacks on gender affirming care; efforts to exclude Planned Parenthood affiliates from serving patients through publicly-funded public health programs; and attacks on Planned Parenthood’s federated structure.

Responsibilities

Depending on need and experience, the MMSA or MSC’s portfolio may also include some supervising and engaging in litigation on the above and related issues. As part of their managerial responsibilities, the MSSA or MSC will:

• Engage in regular oversight of their direct reports, conducting regular check-ins
• Provide professional development support, preparing for and conducting quarterly and annual review
• Represent the interests of their direct reports and collaborate with the other people managers to advance those interests as well as those of the team as a whole
• In addition to their direct reports, support the career development of the team, including other attorneys, interns, and paralegals
  
  

The MSSA or MSC will contribute to PPL&L’s ongoing work to center the communities most affected by laws restricting access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.