Associate General Counsel

LifeSource is hiring an Associate General Counsel to support the General Counsel and be responsible for the legal affairs of LifeSource, including providing counsel, legal advice and guidance to the General Counsel to reduce risk and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations in achieving the organization’s mission and goals to save and heal lives through advocacy and excellence in organ, eye, and tissue donation. This is an exciting opportunity to join or organization in this newly created role.

As Associate General Counsel, you’ll advance our life-saving work by performing the following job duties:  

• Provides legal advice in the development, implementation, and enforcement of organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintains knowledge of the organization’s operations, policies, and procedures.
• Management of outside legal counsel on issues as necessary including regulatory matters and litigation matters.
• Draft and negotiate contracts with third parties for a range of vendors.
• Oversees and responds to subpoena and other requests for clinical/other records.
• Serves as a real-time/on-call resource to clinical staff for legal issues, which may arise during the donation process.
• Maintains positive working relationships and effective protocols with appropriate attorneys and medical examiners.

Contracts 

• Administers and manages contract management system.
• Conducts initial review and drafting of contracts with vendors, hospitals, research organizations, transplant centers, and others.
• Utilizes contract review skills, including assessing terms and provisions, to create initial drafts based on existing examples.
• Fields questions, generates reports, quality checks the input of all documents, culls expired documents, assists in education of team members.
• Track contract milestones, deadlines, and obligations, ensuring timely action is taken.
• Will assist with renegotiations of contracts.

Corporate Compliance 

• Supports the implementation of the Conflict-of-Interest policy, including the administration of the annual disclosure process.
• Investigates and resolves LifeSource’s corporate compliance issues or concerns; consult outside resources as needed.
• Ensure compliance with trademark and licensing requirements.

Human Resources 

• Supports the General Counsel and partners with Human Resources to minimize risk to the organization related to employee relations matters.
• As guided by the General Counsel, supports internal investigative processes of personnel issues and/or the Corporate Compliance Program.

 Risk Reduction 

• Provides leadership in the development and implementation of risk reduction strategies to minimize risk and improve clinical and/or business processes.
• Works with department leaders to identify risk management goals for their area of responsibility.
• Advises staff on case specific legal issues to evaluate options and determine appropriate actions.
• Investigates and resolves adverse events or other potential liabilities.

Privacy 

• Implements processes to ensure LifeSource’s compliance with applicable federal and state privacy and security regulations and guidelines, particularly regarding the organization’s access to and use of protected health information (PHI) when applicable.
• Collaborates with the Information Technology Department, administration, and outside legal counsel to identify and address privacy policies and procedures.
• Maintains policies and procedures related to PHI access and use; ensures strict adherence by all staff with access to PHI.
• Assists in coordinating a cohesive organizational response to any cybersecurity incident or data breach.

 

QUALIFICATIONS   

• Juris Doctor degree required and a minimum of 2 years' experience as a practicing attorney.
• Must be a member of the Bar Association in the State of Minnesota or eligible for admission.
• Proven success in building new and existing business relationships using consultative skills and value proposition methodology. 
• Must have a demonstrated ability to drive results to improve processes and outcomes with the use of critical thinking, analytical skills, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relation