Contracts Counsel: Public Company A stable, national healthcare services organization is seeking a Senior Counsel – Customer Contracts to join its established legal team.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Contracts Counsel, who enjoys sophisticated customer negotiations and variety rather than a high-volume contract mill environment. The Contracts Counsel will work closely with a professional, highly tenured legal team and business stakeholders across the organization.
We have worked extensively with this legal department and have placed multiple corporate legal professionals with the team. The group has exceptional retention, with several placements remaining with the company for many years, including one for more than a decade.
Contracts Counsel Responsibilities:
- Review, draft and negotiate sophisticated healthcare-related customer contracts.
- Lead direct contract negotiations with customers, including large enterprise organizations, healthcare companies, insurance organizations and governmental entities.
- Review and negotiate agreements primarily using customer-provided contract forms.
- Advise internal stakeholders regarding contractual risk, liability exposure, compliance requirements and business considerations.
- Review and negotiate data protection addenda (DPAs), information-security provisions, business associate agreements (BAAs), confidentiality agreements and AI-related contractual terms.
REMOTE:
This Contracts Counsel position is mostly remote. Legal team meets quarterly in Southern California for 2-3 days. Travel will be covered.
Perks:
- Sophisticated, low volume, highly complex agreements (not a contract mill).
- Sophisticated contract work involving privacy, compliance, and AI-related issues.
- We have successfully placed multiple legal professionals within the legal department. Several approaching 10 year mark!
- Work-life balance position + stability!
Salary: $225,000 - $275,000 base salary (DOE) + annual bonus.
Benefits:
- Full m/d/v packages
- 401(k) with employer matching contribution.
- Vacation + sick + holidays + floating holidays.
- 7+ years of substantive contract negotiation experience.
- Prior healthcare industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of HIPAA requirements.
- Significant experience directly negotiating customer contracts.
- Experience negotiating data protection addenda and AI-related contractual provisions.
- Experience with business associate agreements, privacy provisions and information-security terms.
- Current bar license and in good standing with bar.
TO APPLY, ONLY send resume directly to Vice President of Direct Hire, Samantha Graham at Samantha [dot] Graham [at] RobertHalf [dot] [com]