Legal Intern

OrthoPediatrics • Warsaw, IN

8h

About The Position

The OrthoPediatrics Intern Program is guided by our people focused, results-oriented culture and shared commitment to helping children whose lives have been impacted by orthopedic conditions. The Legal Intern will work directly with our General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Healthcare Compliance Director, Paralegal, outside legal counsel, and other OrthoPediatrics’ departments to draft and review legal documents, and assist in fact-finding projects and investigations. The Legal Intern position requires a collaborative mindset, attention to detail, professionalism, and strong communication and organizational skills. The Legal Intern position offers challenging work, personalized mentoring, and paid experience working in-house with a corporate legal department. Interns at OrthoPediatrics are evaluated for potential future employment, including consideration for the 2026 Intern Program.

Requirements

• Strong academic record with demonstrated competencies in the areas of business and contract law and commitment to teamwork and collaboration.
• Proven work ethic and commitment to excellence with unquestioned integrity and excellent judgment.
• Strategic thinker and problem solver looking for hands-on practical experience.
• Values service to others and shows an ability to develop strong, positive, and collaborative relationships across all functional areas and levels within the organization.
• Professional and clear and concise communication skills (both presentation and written).
• Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, collaborative environment.
• Interest in applicable legal and regulatory environment as it relates to medical technology companies, including for example anti-bribery and anti-kickback laws, Medicare fraud prevention, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
• Drive to establish a long-term legal career and to develop subject matter expertise in emerging areas of importance to medical technology companies, including for example intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, patient privacy, or data security.
• Shared commitment to helping children whose lives have been impacted by orthopedic conditions.
• The Legal Intern position is open to current First Year (1L) and Second Year (2L) law students. Applicants must have completed at least the First Year (1L) of an accredited law school at the time of hiring and currently be eligible to sit for the Indiana Bar examination upon graduation from law school.
• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to prepare routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, vendors and other employees of the organization.
• Requires excellent grammar and spelling.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to Ability to add compute rate, ratio and percent.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Requires a valid driver’s license.
• Requires the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment, such as a computer and keyboard, calculator, fax, photocopier, telephone, cell phone, etc.
• Requires proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the OrthoPediatrics’ General Counsel and Associate General Counsel on a wide range of U.S. and international legal issues including but not limited to business transactions, intellectual property and product development, dispute resolution, healthcare compliance, data privacy, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Assist in the daily drafting, reviewing, and amending of core business transaction documents, including for example pricing and consignment agreements, distributor and agency agreements, intellectual property and licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and other technical agreements.
• Lead legal research projects in areas of products liability, healthcare compliance, data privacy, and employment law.
• Support mergers and acquisitions due diligence process and integration initiatives as needed.
• Work with outside legal counsel at the direction of General Counsel or Associate General Counsel, as needed, with respect to the foregoing.
• Perform other essential duties and manage special projects as assigned by members of the legal and compliance departments.
• Recommend opportunities to improve company forms, processes, and procedures and to strengthen internal control structure across the company’s domestic and international businesses.
• Demonstrate self-monitoring of due dates to meet internal and external deadlines and strong reporting and communication skills across all levels of organization.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed