Senior Counsel, Healthcare Transactional Attorney

Job Responsibilities

• Leverages knowledge of legal specialty in providing counsel as it builds its knowledge of the business context in which it operates.
• Reviews and prepares legal documents prior to presentation to management for execution to ensure accurate expression of the legal content.
• May receive specific direction from management or more senior law professionals as to the outcomes, process, and schedules expected.
• Collaborates with the business units that it serves in order to achieve corporate objectives and mitigate unnecessary business risk.
• Researches legal principles and precedents, engages and manages outside counsel, drafts legal documents, gathers relevant case-related information using multiple sources and methods, provides work guidance to other professional, paraprofessional, and support staff in developing solutions to problems presented.
• Maintains currency and fluency in the legal and business trends that could impact those business units within Walgreens that it serves.

About the Role

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and at least 5 years of post-bar attorney legal work experience in a combination of law firm and corporate settings.
• Required licensure to practice law in at least one state.
• Required Illinois bar membership or active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership, and/or cross-functional team leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of U.S. pharmacy and healthcare regulatory frameworks, such as Fraud and abuse laws (including Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act), HIPAA, HITECH, and healthcare privacy and security requirements.
• Experience advising on healthcare-related transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience identifying, assessing, and managing regulatory risk while enabling business objectives in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong legal drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to independently manage matters from issue-spotting through execution.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers and other business partners.