What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Intern position at OrthoPediatrics?
Founded in 2006, OrthoPediatrics is an orthopedic company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics. As such it has developed the most comprehensive product offering to the pediatric orthopedic market to improve the lives of children with orthopedic conditions. OrthoPediatrics currently markets 53 products that serve three of the largest categories within the pediatric orthopedic market. This product offering spans trauma and deformity, scoliosis, and sports medicine/other procedures. OrthoPediatrics’ global sales organization is focused exclusively on pediatric orthopedics and distributes its products in the United States and over 70 countries outside the United States. For more information, please visit www.orthopediatrics.com.
GENERAL SUMMARY: The OrthoPediatrics Intern Program is guided by our people focused, results-oriented culture and shared commitment to helping children whose lives have been impacted by orthopedic conditions. The Legal Intern will work directly with our General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Healthcare Compliance Director, Paralegal, outside legal counsel, and other OrthoPediatrics’ departments to draft and review legal documents, and assist in fact-finding projects and investigations. The Legal Intern position requires a collaborative mindset, attention to detail, professionalism, and strong communication and organizational skills. The Legal Intern position offers challenging work, personalized mentoring, and paid experience working in-house with a corporate legal department. Interns at OrthoPediatrics are evaluated for potential future employment, including consideration for the 2026 Intern Program.
Essential Functions
QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. (The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
HOW TO APPLY: Please submit a cover letter, resume, undergraduate transcript, and law school transcript and class rank if applicable. Your cover letter should address what you hope to contribute and gain from OrthoPediatrics’ Intern Program, as well as any particular ties or interest to the geographic region.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to prepare routine reports and correspondence. Ability to communicate effectively with customers, vendors and other employees of the organization. Requires excellent grammar and spelling.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to Ability to add compute rate, ratio and percent.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Requires a valid driver’s license.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Requires the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment, such as a computer and keyboard, calculator, fax, photocopier, telephone, cell phone, etc. Requires proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is frequently required to climb stairs, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
The noise level in the work environment is that found in a “normal” office environment; noise levels during visits to other locations in the building may be moderate and occasionally loud. The employee occasionally performs work related to travel.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.
GENERAL SUMMARY: The OrthoPediatrics Intern Program is guided by our people focused, results-oriented culture and shared commitment to helping children whose lives have been impacted by orthopedic conditions. The Legal Intern will work directly with our General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Healthcare Compliance Director, Paralegal, outside legal counsel, and other OrthoPediatrics’ departments to draft and review legal documents, and assist in fact-finding projects and investigations. The Legal Intern position requires a collaborative mindset, attention to detail, professionalism, and strong communication and organizational skills. The Legal Intern position offers challenging work, personalized mentoring, and paid experience working in-house with a corporate legal department. Interns at OrthoPediatrics are evaluated for potential future employment, including consideration for the 2026 Intern Program.
Essential Functions
- Provide support to the OrthoPediatrics’ General Counsel and Associate General Counsel on a wide range of U.S. and international legal issues including but not limited to business transactions, intellectual property and product development, dispute resolution, healthcare compliance, data privacy, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Assist in the daily drafting, reviewing, and amending of core business transaction documents, including for example pricing and consignment agreements, distributor and agency agreements, intellectual property and licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and other technical agreements.
- Lead legal research projects in areas of products liability, healthcare compliance, data privacy, and employment law.
- Support mergers and acquisitions due diligence process and integration initiatives as needed.
- Work with outside legal counsel at the direction of General Counsel or Associate General Counsel, as needed, with respect to the foregoing.
- Perform other essential duties and manage special projects as assigned by members of the legal and compliance departments.
- Recommend opportunities to improve company forms, processes, and procedures and to strengthen internal control structure across the company’s domestic and international businesses.
- Demonstrate self-monitoring of due dates to meet internal and external deadlines and strong reporting and communication skills across all levels of organization.
QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. (The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
- Strong academic record with demonstrated competencies in the areas of business and contract law and commitment to teamwork and collaboration.
- Proven work ethic and commitment to excellence with unquestioned integrity and excellent judgment.
- Strategic thinker and problem solver looking for hands-on practical experience.
- Values service to others and shows an ability to develop strong, positive, and collaborative relationships across all functional areas and levels within the organization.
- Professional and clear and concise communication skills (both presentation and written).
- Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, collaborative environment.
- Interest in applicable legal and regulatory environment as it relates to medical technology companies, including for example anti-bribery and anti-kickback laws, Medicare fraud prevention, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
- Drive to establish a long-term legal career and to develop subject matter expertise in emerging areas of importance to medical technology companies, including for example intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, patient privacy, or data security.
- Shared commitment to helping children whose lives have been impacted by orthopedic conditions.
HOW TO APPLY: Please submit a cover letter, resume, undergraduate transcript, and law school transcript and class rank if applicable. Your cover letter should address what you hope to contribute and gain from OrthoPediatrics’ Intern Program, as well as any particular ties or interest to the geographic region.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to prepare routine reports and correspondence. Ability to communicate effectively with customers, vendors and other employees of the organization. Requires excellent grammar and spelling.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to Ability to add compute rate, ratio and percent.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Requires a valid driver’s license.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Requires the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment, such as a computer and keyboard, calculator, fax, photocopier, telephone, cell phone, etc. Requires proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is frequently required to climb stairs, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
The noise level in the work environment is that found in a “normal” office environment; noise levels during visits to other locations in the building may be moderate and occasionally loud. The employee occasionally performs work related to travel.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.
