Associate Attorney - Health Care
Location: Long Island (Uniondale), NY – Hybrid work schedule. Experience level: 3-5+ years of experience in health care and regulatory litigation required.
About the role
Harris Beach Murtha seeks a mid-level litigation and compliance attorney to counsel and represent health care facilities, practitioners, and other entities and individuals in the health care industry with respect to regulatory compliance, litigation, audits, investigations, clinical operations, and business operations matters. The ideal candidate will have experience navigating the business and regulatory aspects of health care law, including Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, fraud and abuse, compliance, medical staff matters, and reimbursement issues, while working collaboratively with colleagues across practice areas to deliver exceptional client service.
Responsibilities
- Represent clients in courtroom proceedings, mediations, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings
- Take and defend depositions
- Research legal issues and collaborate with senior attorneys on litigation strategy
- Draft memoranda, pleadings, motions, briefs, and discovery documents
- Manage discovery, including medical records, billing, and health plan documentation
- Work on government (Medicare and Medicaid) and commercial payer audits and investigations
- Work across a variety of health care litigation and regulatory matters
- Create compliance programs for health care providers, suppliers, and managed care plans
- Draft and revise compliance policies and procedures
- Analyze records and transactions related to business disputes and investigations as to potential client claims
- Structure, negotiate, and draft contracts and other business arrangements
- Advise clients on a wide range of compliance and health regulatory matters
Requirements
- 3-5+ years’ experience in health care and regulatory litigation
- Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school
- Admission to NYS bar (or ability to waive in)
- Excellent research, writing, and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload effectively
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly absorb and analyze new information
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- A high level of professionalism, conscientiousness, and responsibility
- A positive, flexible, and cooperative attitude
- Ability to work effectively with diverse personalities across all levels of the organization
- Minimum annual billable requirement of 1800 hours
Work Environment
- Hybrid work opportunity in Harris Beach Murtha’s Long Island (Uniondale) office
- Engagement in sophisticated health care litigation, compliance, regulatory, audit, and investigation matters on behalf of a diverse client base
Pay
Long Island (Uniondale), NY: $142,000 – $185,000 (will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position and geographic location).
About Harris Beach Murtha
Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.
The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.