Associate General Counsel - Health Care

Company: Emory University
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

Discover Your Career at Emory UniversityEmory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.DescriptionEmory's Office of the General Counsel seeks a health care attorney with significant transactional, operational, and regulatory experience to serve as Associate General Counsel. If that's you, we're thrilled that we found each other so quickly. Want to know more first? See the details below.Help us make the world healthierThe Associate General Counsel will join an outstanding group of teammates representing Emory University and Emory Healthcare on challenging matters confronting one of the nation's premier academic medical centers that includes highly ranked Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, a national primate research center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer institute in Georgia, a global health institute that supports initiatives in nearly 100 countries, and a leading research enterprise that receives more than one billion dollars in annual sponsored research funding and is responsible for the development of lifesaving treatments such as angioplasty, drug-eluting stents, and the most successful and commonly used HIV/AIDS drugs in the world.You will represent Georgia's most comprehensive health system that cares for patients making more than 6 million visits to Emory each year and that encompasses 10 hospitals (and growing!), more than 490 outpatient provider locations, and the largest clinically integrated network in the state, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.Are you ready?The Associate General Counsel's duties in support of Emory University and Emory Healthcare will include:

• Advising on a broad spectrum of business opportunities, including counseling, contract review and negotiation, and commercial dispute resolution.
• Providing legal analysis and advice concerning regulatory compliance, physician-hospital relationships, and a wide variety of university and health care operational issues.
• Developing new areas of sub-specialty as needs may arise.
• Duties also may include participation on committees as the legal advisor.We are looking for candidates who:
  • Work well on a team.
  • Have outstanding negotiation and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Display high levels of emotional intelligence, including kindness, empathy, optimism, and self-awareness.
  • Approach work with a commitment to excellence, intellectual curiosity, strong work ethic, and integrity.
  • Have excellent judgment, client counseling, multi-tasking, and decision-making skills.
  • Have a license to practice law in a U.S. state, and excellent academic credentials.
  • Preferably have a minimum of five years of legal experience in the health care field.
  • Previous experience with academic medical centers, physician group practices, health care delivery systems, and/or in-house legal departments is a plus.
  • A sense of humor is also valued!Where will I work?Where would you like to work? We have an office waiting for you in the heart of the university on the "quad", where our Atlanta-area team members can collaborate two days a week (more or less, as needed). But, we are flexible. What work environment / location will contribute to you doing your best work for Emory?Other benefitsEmory's compensation is competitive with similar universities and comes with outstanding benefits, including:
    • A generous contribution from the university, in an amount up to an additional 9% of your salary, to your 403(b) tax-deferred retirement savings plan.
    • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including a three tier plan that lowers your deductibles and out of pocket maximums even more.
    • Eleven paid holidays and two paid floating holidays.
    • Three additional paid days off during the Winter Recess (Christmas to New Years).
    • Four weeks of paid vacation per year, which increases with length of service.
    • FMLA and six weeks of paid parental leave.
    • A Courtesy Scholarship program that covers between 50% and 100% of tuition for your children who apply to, and are admitted for enrollment at Emory University.
    • An exceptional gym which employees can join for $360 per year.NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional supported visits to an Emory University location. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.Additional DetailsEmory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) - 404-712-2049 (TDD).Emory University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Department of Accessibility Services at 404-727-9877 (V) - 404-712-2049 (TDD). Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.
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