Paralegal (PL4101 - Corporate)

CommuniCare Health Center Jobs•San Antonio, TX

44d•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the Paralegal performs highly responsible, confidential, and complex legal support work for the organization’s Legal Department. The position supports contract review and administration, legal and regulatory research, transactional matters, healthcare compliance activities, corporate governance, subpoena and records-response processes, policy review, and legal department operations. The Paralegal assists with drafting, reviewing, organizing, tracking, and maintaining legal documents, contracts, correspondence, research memoranda, policies, and legal files. The position requires strong attention to detail, excellent writing and organizational skills, sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to work with sensitive and confidential information in a healthcare environment. Litigation support may be required from time to time, but the primary focus of the position is contracts, regulatory research, transactional support, healthcare compliance, and legal operations.

Requirements

Associate’s degree in business, legal, healthcare administration or related field required.
Minimum five (5) years of experience in a legal administrative support, paralegal, contracts, compliance, healthcare, corporate, or transactional support role required.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to create, compose, proofread, edit, and organize written materials.
Ability to review, summarize, and track contracts, legal documents, policies, correspondence, and regulatory materials.
Ability to conduct legal and factual research and summarize findings clearly and accurately.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines, matters, and priorities.
Strong attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies, missing information, deadlines, and follow-up items.
Ability to work effectively and professionally with internal departments, external counsel, vendors, consultants, agencies, and other stakeholders.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, document comparison/redlining tools, electronic files, and legal or contract-management systems.
Ability to exercise discretion, maintain confidentiality, and work independently under attorney supervision.
Ability to travel as needed.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors degree preferred.
Paralegal certificate, Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification, Certified Legal Assistant/Certified Paralegal certification, or equivalent legal experience preferred.
Experience in healthcare, nonprofit, federally qualified health center, government-funded, compliance, or corporate legal environments preferred.
Knowledge of contract, agreement, corporate, governance, healthcare, compliance, and regulatory documentation preferred.
Familiarity with confidentiality requirements, including HIPAA, attorney-client privilege, attorney work product, and sensitive business information preferred.

Responsibilities

Assists the Chief Legal Officer with contract review, contract administration, and legal document management, including vendor agreements, service agreements, leases, memoranda of understanding, affiliation agreements, grant-related agreements, business associate agreements, settlement agreements, amendments, renewals, and related correspondence.
Reviews contracts and legal documents for completeness, accuracy, consistency, required exhibits, signature authority, insurance requirements, indemnity provisions, renewal dates, notice provisions, and other business or legal terms identified by the Chief Legal Officer.
Prepares initial drafts, summaries, redlines, comparison charts, issue lists, contract abstracts, approval routing materials, board or management summaries, and other legal department work product under attorney supervision.
Conducts legal, regulatory, and factual research on matters affecting a federally qualified health center and healthcare provider, including HRSA Health Center Program requirements, HIPAA, FTCA, 340B, Medicare/Medicaid, Texas healthcare rules, professional licensing rules, consent and records issues, subpoenas, corporate governance, nonprofit matters, and other topics assigned by the Chief Legal Officer.
Assists with subpoena, records request, agency inquiry, complaint, and audit-response processes, including intake, tracking, document collection, production logs, business records affidavits, correspondence, and coordination with internal departments.
Supports healthcare compliance and risk-management activities by assisting with policy review, legal research, incident documentation, investigation support, corrective-action tracking, committee materials, and maintenance of confidential legal and compliance files.
Assists with real estate and transactional matters, including leases, purchase agreements, letters of intent, due diligence checklists, title and survey materials, closing documents, corporate authority documents, and post-closing records.
Assists with corporate governance and organizational matters, including board materials, resolutions, officer/director records, corporate filings, entity records, signature authority documentation, and maintenance of governance files.
Provides limited litigation support when needed, including organizing case files, gathering documents, preparing chronologies, assisting with discovery or subpoena responses, coordinating with outside counsel, and maintaining litigation-related records. Litigation support is incidental to the position and is not the primary focus of the role.
Performs other related legal support duties as assigned by the Chief Legal Officer.