Associate Counsel - Clinical Research

Trinity Health•Livonia, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Associate Counsel will manage the full lifecycle of clinical trial agreements, including intake, drafting, reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating contracts and budgets for industry‑funded studies such as CTAs and amendments. The Associate Counsel will ensure agreements align with institutional policies, research objectives, and compliance requirements. Provides legal services for the Trinity Health System Office and assigned Ministries as a member of the Trinity Health Legal Department and in coordination with the needs of the System Office and assigned Ministries' senior management teams and consistent with the strategies and priorities of the organization. Serves as an experienced high-level specialist with responsibility for one or more important aspects of the organization’s legal work, regularly interfaces with senior management and key administrators on legal problems/issues relative to one or more particular areas of specialization or expertise and may provide functional training/guidance to less-experienced attorneys. Work is subject to review by Managing Counsel or by other, more senior members of the Legal Department. This level represents the most senior skill level with little or no supervisory responsibility. Essential Functions Our Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates and demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions and Promise in behaviors, practices and decisions. Work Focus • Performs a variety of legal work within specific areas of expertise as part of the Trinity Health Legal Department. • Prepares formal memoranda and legal opinion on subjects that require extensive legal research. • Consults and advises with and performs a variety of legal assignments for Ministries and System Office colleagues, which may include: Trinity Health officers and other management personnel; Ministry management and governance; and/or a fiduciary board of a regional delivery network or individual Ministry. • Resolves or oversees matters involving substantial monetary amounts or other substantial risk to Trinity Health. • Represents the interests of the assigned Ministries and Trinity Health in contacts with outside parties including attorneys, managers and officials of other companies and government agencies. • Provides legal counsel to System Office and/or assigned Ministries and their operating entities or Service Area with respect to matters either in the particular field of law or in which the attorney has special expertise, or in the general field of corporate healthcare law. May perform legal services of a system-wide benefit, including as part of a Center of Excellence or practice group of the Trinity Health Legal Department. • Advises management on developments in the area of expertise or corporate healthcare law in which the attorney specializes and which may impact Trinity Health. • Coordinates activities of outside counsel engaged to provide legal services to Trinity Health and/or Ministries. • May provide direction to, and supervision of, more junior attorneys. Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, state and local laws/regulations, Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program and Code of conduct, as well as other policies and procedures to ensure compliance in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.

Requirements

Licensed attorney holding a J.D. degree from a recognized law school.
Must have a minimum of seven (7) years’ experience practicing law with at least three (3) years’ experience in the practice of corporate healthcare law preferred, including the laws affecting tax-exempt organizations, with demonstrated legal capability covering diverse legal assignments that occasionally include legal matters of major significance.

Responsibilities

Manages the full lifecycle of clinical trial agreements, including intake, drafting, reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating contracts and budgets for industry‑funded studies such as CTAs and amendments.
Ensures agreements align with institutional policies, research objectives, and compliance requirements.
Prepares formal memoranda and legal opinion on subjects that require extensive legal research.
Consults and advises with and performs a variety of legal assignments for Ministries and System Office colleagues
Resolves or oversees matters involving substantial monetary amounts or other substantial risk to Trinity Health.
Represents the interests of the assigned Ministries and Trinity Health in contacts with outside parties including attorneys, managers and officials of other companies and government agencies.
Provides legal counsel to System Office and/or assigned Ministries and their operating entities or Service Area with respect to matters either in the particular field of law or in which the attorney has special expertise, or in the general field of corporate healthcare law.
Advises management on developments in the area of expertise or corporate healthcare law in which the attorney specializes and which may impact Trinity Health.
Coordinates activities of outside counsel engaged to provide legal services to Trinity Health and/or Ministries.
May provide direction to, and supervision of, more junior attorneys.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, state and local laws/regulations, Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program and Code of conduct, as well as other policies and procedures to ensure compliance