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Advocate Aurora Health

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10,000+ employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $10.2M Grant on 2019-08

Healthcare Insurance

Advocate Aurora Health is a leading healthcare organization that operates across various regions including Central Chicagoland, Central Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee, and more. With a diverse range of career areas such as advanced practice clinicians, behavioral health, nursing, and more, Advocate Aurora Health is committed to helping people live well. The organization offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career advancement, fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and innovate in the healthcare sector. Advocate Aurora Health prioritizes the safety of its candidates and maintains a robust recruitment process to protect sensitive information.

📋 Description

• Provide legal support to enterprise entities. • Work collaboratively with attorneys, business partners, other teammates, outside counsel, and outside vendors, performing a wide variety of duties. • Communicate effectively with Legal Department teammates, business partners, courts, and government agencies. • Manage and delegate projects to outside counsel, with an ability to identify and articulate to outside counsel what needs to be done on matters such as EEOC charges, lawsuits, government agency investigations, and general employment matters and questions. • Manage legal matters, including complex litigation, transactions, litigation holds, investigations, due diligence, discovery, and other responsibilities and assignments as required in the Legal Department. • Conduct legal research. • In partnership with outside counsel, conduct witness interviews, prepares witnesses for depositions, government agency interviews, and trial. • Attend and/or provide support in mediations and depositions. • In partnership with outside counsel and/or more senior in-house attorneys, negotiate various types of legal documents such as contracts, employment agreements, settlement agreements, severance agreements, discovery responses, pleadings, position statements, response to requests for information, response to agency complaints, correspondence, memoranda, policies and other legal documents.

🎯 Requirements

• Doctorate Degree in Law from an accredited law school. • Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of experience providing legal services within a law firm or as in-house legal counsel. • Ability to support Legal Department leadership and business clients on business and legal strategy, while assessing, communicating, managing, and mitigating legal risk to the enterprise. • Demonstrated familiarity with federal and applicable state employment laws and related agencies highly recommended • Ability to develop, approve, and interpret policies within various sub-functions and departments. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with analytical and critical thinking abilities; proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs • Educational Assistance Program