Healthcare Paralegal

Legacy Community Health•Houston, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Are you someone who thrives on bringing order to complexity and finds fulfillment in supporting a mission that changes lives? At Legacy Community Health, we’re not just coworkers—we’re a family united by a shared purpose: to provide compassionate, high-quality healthcare to our community. As a Healthcare Paralegal at Legacy, you’ll be a vital part of this mission, ensuring our legal operations run like clockwork. If you’re detail-driven, organized, and passionate about making a difference, we can’t wait to welcome you to our team! Role Highlights: Be the backbone of our legal team by managing documents, schedules, and incident reports to support the Chief Legal Officer and Staff Attorneys. Work Environment: Collaborate with a supportive and passionate team that values your contributions and celebrates your successes. Impact: Play a key role in ensuring compliance and operational excellence, enabling Legacy to deliver life-changing care to those who need it most. Growth Opportunities: Take advantage of mentorship, professional development, and pathways to grow your career in legal operations. Team Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with attorneys and administrative staff to coordinate seamless legal operations and board activities.

Requirements

3+ years in a corporate legal environment or law firm, in healthcare
Bachelor’s Degree in business, paralegal studies, or a similar field
Strong command of contract management lifecycle and template modification, redlining, and obtaining approvals.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a service mindset.
Well-founded grasp of contract maintenance and contract negotiations.
Drafts documents for review by staff attorneys and CLO.
Ability to properly calendar and track significant dates including but not limited to subpoenas, insurance renewals and audits.
Acute attention to detail.
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
Ability to take ownership of projects and see them to completion.
Familiarity with in-house legal department operations.
Strong problem solving and analytic skills.
Proven track record of success in healthcare legal operations

Responsibilities

Gather, organize, and prepare essential documents, including insurance renewal applications.
Assist in drafting, revising, proofreading, and managing legal documents such as contracts and certifications.
Support the preparation of materials for conferences, meetings, and board activities.
Manage incident reports, ensuring proper investigation, corrective actions, and closure.
Compile and analyze data, preparing statistics, charts, graphs, and detailed summaries as needed.
Organize and maintain legal documents, creating efficient retrieval systems and spreadsheets.
Coordinate document collection, review, and production for discovery requests and audits.
Maintain a calendar of significant dates, such as subpoenas, insurance renewals, and audits, ensuring deadlines are met.
Manage schedules for the Chief Legal Officer and Staff Attorneys, keeping their days running smoothly.
Coordinate board meetings by preparing agendas, ensuring document availability, and drafting minutes.
Take on additional duties as assigned to support the legal team and advance Legacy’s mission.