Senior Compliance Attorney

Center for Reproductive Rights • Washington, DC

9d • $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Center for Reproductive Rights seeks a Senior Compliance Attorney to join its U.S. Litigation team. This role is critical due to the evolving legal landscape surrounding reproductive rights and access in the United States following the elimination of the federal constitutional right to abortion. The Senior Compliance Attorney will provide compliance assistance, advising clients on abortion-specific laws, general healthcare regulations, and other policies impacting reproductive healthcare services. The ideal candidate will have experience advising clients, managing client relationships, and conducting complex legal analyses of state and federal laws and regulations. The position is based in the Center’s New York City or Washington D.C. offices with a hybrid work model (3 days in-office, 2 days remote).

Requirements

• Member in good standing of the bar of New York or DC based on the office where the attorney is based. If not currently admitted to that bar, the candidate must be a member in good standing to another state's bar and agree to become admitted within eighteen months of their start date to the bar of New York or DC based on the office where the attorney is based.
• At least seven (7) years of post-law-school legal experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in healthcare law; experience providing direct compliance advice to clients and undertaking complex legal analysis of state laws and regulations.
• Excellent research, writing, and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues to non-legal audiences in a clear and succinct manner.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, including ability to handle multiple tasks and meet multiple deadlines simultaneously, and to provide rapid responses to client inquiries in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
• Ability to maintain high level of expertise in relevant substantive law.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate, delegate, and supervise junior attorneys and paralegals on a project basis.
• Strong commitment to the Center’s mission, purpose, and values, along with experience or knowledge of reproductive rights legal issues, reproductive justice, racial justice, or other human rights, civil rights, criminal law, or social justice issues.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusive equity work and incorporating inclusive equitable principles into legal, programmatic, and partnership work.

Nice To Haves

• Membership in multiple jurisdictions is a plus.
• Experience on abortion-related legal matters and/or experience in the reproductive rights, health, and justice movement is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct legal research and analysis on state and federal laws and regulations governing the provision of abortion care and other reproductive health care.
• Provide timely, accurate compliance advice and support to help clients mitigate risks and comply with the rapidly changing U.S. legal landscape.
• Establish and maintain strong client relationships; communicate regularly with Center clients; coordinate with partner organizations and outside counsel.
• Implement effective systems to manage and track compliance inquiries and ongoing compliance matters.
• Work collaboratively with the Litigation team to integrate compliance support into our provision of legal services and provide support to other aspects of the U.S. Litigation team’s work, as needed.
• Represent the Center at public events, conferences, and coalition meetings.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plan with no in-network deductible and best-in-class reproductive healthcare coverage, including infertility.
• Dental and Vision coverage.
• Resources to help prevent and recover from burnout through different programs that enable mental, physical, and community well-being.
• Generous leave, including paid parental leave, personal days, vacation, and sick leave.
• Closed the last week of December to allow staff to spend winter holiday time with their loved ones.
• 7.5% of annual salary contribution to a 401(k) after the first year of employment (applicable only in US and Kenya).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed