Staff Attorney

About the Role

Join UPMC's Enterprise Legal Services team and play a key role in supporting one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare systems. In this dynamic position, you'll partner with physicians, researchers, operational leaders, and senior attorneys to provide trusted legal counsel on a wide range of healthcare, regulatory, patient care, and research-related matters. From supporting groundbreaking clinical research initiatives to helping navigate evolving healthcare regulations, you'll be at the center of decisions that drive innovation, ensure compliance, and advance patient care. This is a unique opportunity to develop specialized expertise, collaborate with diverse stakeholders across the organization, and build a rewarding legal career within a mission-driven healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Subject to supervision and oversight of senior UPMC attorneys, provide legal counsel to managers and staff throughout UPMC and address and resolve legal issues as they arise on a daily basis, such as in the areas of regulatory and patient care law.
• Provide legal counsel for sponsored clinical research and related healthcare and research transactions. Work closely with research administration, contracting, compliance, finance, privacy, regulatory, and operational stakeholders to facilitate research initiatives while managing legal and regulatory risk.
• Provide legal counsel and legal services to UPMC's corporate departments and assigned hospitals, divisions, and business units, including interaction with senior leadership as necessary.
• Conduct legal research, prepare legal documentation, and provide legal guidance within the organization for non-complex contractual and business arrangements and compliance with legal requirements (including federal and state healthcare laws and regulations).
• Review and recommend changes to corporate policy to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Apply general legal knowledge in areas such as federal and state healthcare laws and regulations (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, licensure, accreditation, malpractice liability, medical staff, patient care law, behavioral health, guardianships), corporate law, taxation, real estate, labor and employment, antitrust, insurance, commercial, and finance. Begin to develop specialized legal knowledge in one or more of these areas.
• Perform special project assignments for senior UPMC attorneys.
• Provide guidance on contractual arrangements and prepare contractual and other legal documentation.
• Under supervision of more senior attorneys, assist in representing UPMC business units in hearings and proceedings at the administrative level, moderately complex business arrangements, or perform discrete tasks in more complex litigation or business transactions.
• Apply legal knowledge, analysis, and judgment to identify alternative approaches and recommend solutions to routine and less complex legal problems.

Requirements

• J.D. Degree required.
• Must demonstrate legal analytical skills, communication skills, legal writing skills, and problem-solving ability.
• Pennsylvania license or obtain such license within six (6) months of date-of-hire required.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

• Pennsylvania Attorneys License
• Act 34

Schedule

Hybrid schedule at the US Steel Tower.