Legal Counsel of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs

About the Role

Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel and Director, Legal Affairs, Counsel provides legal advice on healthcare regulations, privacy, and commercial transactional matters affecting a large integrated health system. The position serves as a trusted advisor to business and operational leaders, structuring and negotiating a broad range of commercial, clinical, and operational agreements while ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state healthcare laws and privacy requirements.

The role has particular responsibility for advising on healthcare privacy, data governance, information sharing, interoperability, and regulatory issues arising in connection with commercial transactions, digital health initiatives, and enterprise operations. This position will support technology-related transactions, with many files including privacy obligations.

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements, ensuring compliance with applicable healthcare laws, privacy requirements, and organizational policies.
• Serve as legal counsel on healthcare regulatory and privacy issues (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH, the New Jersey Data Privacy Act) arising in connection with commercial transactions, strategic partnerships, clinical initiatives, and operational activities.
• Advise clients regarding information blocking, interoperability requirements, TEFCA, business associate arrangements, data use agreements, health information exchanges, research collaborations, and other data-sharing arrangements.
• Counsel business leaders on general contract terms and legal issues involving data governance, data ownership, permitted uses of data, de-identification, secondary use of data, information sharing, and contractual protections for PHI, PII, and other sensitive information.
• Monitor and interpret evolving federal and state healthcare, privacy, and digital health regulations and provide practical guidance regarding their impact on contracting and operations.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a broad range of commercial agreements, including professional services agreements, physician and provider arrangements, purchasing and supply chain contracts, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, technology and software agreements, revenue-generating partnerships, and other operational contracts.
• Support enterprise technology and digital health transactions, including SaaS, cloud services, software licensing, AI-enabled services, and data analytics, with particular emphasis on regulatory compliance, privacy, information governance, and risk allocation.
• Partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and business leaders to ensure agreements appropriately address cybersecurity, vendor risk management, incident response, regulatory requirements, and contractual protections for sensitive information.
• Advise executives and operational leaders regarding contractual rights and obligations, dispute resolution, risk mitigation, and contract interpretation.

What Sets This Opportunity Apart

This position offers the opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor on healthcare regulatory, privacy, and commercial transactional matters within a leading integrated healthcare system. The role combines sophisticated commercial contracting with complex healthcare regulatory counseling, allowing the successful candidate to advise on strategic initiatives involving privacy, information sharing, digital health, and enterprise operations. As a member of a collaborative in-house legal department, Counsel will work closely with executive leadership, clinical and operational teams, compliance professionals, and business partners to develop practical legal solutions that advance innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance and protecting the organization's mission.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate.
• At least ten (10) years of legal experience, including substantial experience advising on healthcare regulatory matters, privacy, and complex commercial transactions in healthcare or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience in a combination of law firm practice and in-house counsel roles is preferred.

Qualifications

• Significant experience negotiating and managing sophisticated commercial transactions, including technology-enabled services, strategic partnerships, and vendor agreements.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare privacy laws and regulations, including HIPAA, HITECH, state privacy laws, business associate requirements, data use agreements, and healthcare information sharing.
• Experience advising on healthcare regulatory issues that arise in commercial transactions, including fraud and abuse, reimbursement, licensing, corporate governance, and healthcare compliance.
• Familiarity with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), healthcare interoperability requirements, information blocking regulations, health information exchanges, and evolving claims on sharing electronic health information.
• Experience counseling clients on data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability, and contractual allocation of regulatory and operational risk.
• Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical business advice and contract solutions.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple sophisticated matters independently while collaborating effectively with attorneys, executives, and operational leaders.

About Us

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is to provide the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development, and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation.

Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Medical Group
• Atlantic Visiting Nurse
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

Awards and Recognition

• Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
• Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades.
• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
• Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026."
• Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton, and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
• Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
• Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.

Benefits

Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
• PTO & Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
• Backup and On-Site Childcare
• Well-Being Rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft, and Legal Insurance