Counsel II, Real Estate

About the role

Counsels and advises on a wide range of transactional real estate-related matters for Kaiser Permanente, including leasing, land use, construction, and assesses legal risk impacting KP business and/or clinical operations, proposing solutions. Serves as a subject matter expert on real estate legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Communicates information and provides advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies.
• Participates in the creation, review, and negotiation of legal documents by preparing, drafting, creating, and leading conversations on complex and nuanced written legal advice, contracts, and/or other documents related to subject matter expertise; reviews work product of others; serves as an expert and prime contact to clients and other legal professionals.
• Performs and analyzes legal research by interpreting and reviewing legal documents (e.g., contracts, memoranda, and policies); ensures completion of complex research and analyses of case law and statutory/regulatory authority including but not limited to federal and state laws, rules, regulations, accreditation standards, and/or other applicable guidance; identifies complex industry patterns and trends impacting legal questions or issues; identifies key insights from the research findings and legal analysis to communicate with cross-functional senior business stakeholders to design program-wide strategy and critical business decisions.
• Affords legal risk and/or provides legal guidance by utilizing advanced knowledge of legal principles, business risks, regulatory landscape, and compliance considerations to legal advice and review recommendations on matters critical to the organization; furthering the development of legal strategies for senior business stakeholders and driving the creation of solutions to mitigate legal risks, advance program-wide business strategy, and drive Kaiser Permanente's mission; collaborates with internal and outside counsel on complex legal matters; drives communication with attorneys to leverage and share expertise and resources in a highly matrixed environment; engages other junior-level attorneys and other legal professionals or guides more junior attorneys in their area of expertise.
• Contributes to legal planning and strategy by proactively contributing to the creation of legal strategies for the implementation of cutting-edge solutions to unique issues; partners with others to resolve complex legal issues through collaborative effort among legal colleagues and stakeholders; provides recommendations to stakeholders on health plan and/or care delivery business and/or clinical strategies; partners with regulatory services and government relations on Kaiser Permanente's advocacy strategies to address legislative, regulatory, and litigation risks; guides others on the development of responses to regulatory actions as appropriate for practice areas (e.g., audits and enforcement actions).

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate (JD) or equivalent (e.g., Legum Baccalaureus [LLBs], Legum Magister [LLMs], and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws [PCLLs]) AND minimum five (5) years of experience as a practicing lawyer.
• State Bar License (from any State where KP does business).
• One (1) year of experience working on complex remediation and/or compliance projects.