In-House Counsel

Description

About NJHA: The New Jersey Hospital Association is a not-for-profit trade organization representing New Jersey’s hospitals, health systems, behavioral healthcare systems, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, assisted living, nursing homes and other healthcare providers. NJHA and its affiliates, the Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey and Healthcare Business Solutions, share a collective goal of improving the health of New Jerseyans through services and programs that enhance quality, affordable, equitable, and accessible healthcare.

Objective:  The ideal candidate will provide legal support to the General Counsel and company-wide staff members of NJHA and its affiliates regarding corporate transactions, healthcare legislative and regulatory matters, contracts, compliance, employment matters, trustee relations and governance issues.

Qualifications

Qualifications:  Juris doctorate degree with a license to practice and a member in good standing of the New Jersey Bar or licensed as in-house counsel of the New Jersey Bar.  A minimum of 1-year general corporate, clerkship or law firm experience.  Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to communicate legal issues in a clear and understandable manner.  Strong writing/proofreading, organizational, communication and research skills, solid work ethic and ability to produce high quality work under deadline pressures.  Healthcare industry, contract, and data privacy experience preferred. 

Essential Job Functions:

• At the direction of General Counsel, provides legal support to NJHA staff including legal implications and aspects relative to business practices, contracting, corporate strategies, employment law, and legal trends.
• Reviews case law, legislation and regulations and provide summaries/comments/recommendations to General Counsel, leadership and staff.
• Reviews, prepares and edits legal documents, policies and procedures.
• Processes billing related to legal matters.
• Manages legal correspondence and contract management database functions.  Builds workflows, performs analytics, and coordinates approvals and execution of contracts.
• Serves as a litigation liaison by working with outside counsel on assigned matters.
• Assists in drafting, revising and updating company policies and standard operating procedures for in-house legal department.
• As directed by General Counsel, serves as corporate legal advisor, compliance officer support, helps to manage constituency groups, and/or coordinates use of other outside counsel.
• Serves as liaison for NJHA with members and related programming, upon request.  Provides advice on trustee relations and governance issues.
• Prepares agendas and participates in In-House Counsel, Corporate Compliance and other constituency group meetings as directed by General Counsel.

Non-Essential Job Functions:

• Represents the New Jersey Hospital Association and its affiliates at industry, educational or business events as directed by the General Counsel and President & CEO.
• Attends trainings and special events as assigned.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

Equipment Used to Perform Essential Functions:  LexisNexis (or similar) and various Microsoft Office programs.  Ironclad.  Adobe Pro.  Excel.

NJHA Benefits:

NJHA offers benefits and other compensation programs such as medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending account, salary deferral plan, pension, paid vacation, holidays and wellness days, paid sick days, short/long term disability, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, membership in a credit union, life insurance, employee-discount programs, and use of an on-site fitness facility. 

NJHA is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a veteran, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws.