Senior Counsel, Healthcare Transactional Attorney

Walgreens • Deerfield, IL

21h

About The Position

As Senior Counsel, you will provide practical and business-oriented legal advice and counseling on a range of pharmacy and healthcare programs, operations, and strategic initiatives, with a focus on payor contracting. Matters will vary in complexity and have a significant financial impact on business activities and operations. The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating and drafting transactional documents and an understanding of relevant federal and state regulatory frameworks.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and at least 5 years of post-bar attorney legal work experience in a combination of law firm and corporate settings.
• Required licensure to practice law in at least one state.
• Required Illinois bar membership or active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.
• Working knowledge of U.S. pharmacy and healthcare regulatory frameworks, such as: Fraud and abuse laws (including Anti‑Kickback Statute and False Claims Act) HIPAA, HITECH, and healthcare privacy and security requirements.
• Experience advising on healthcare‑related transactions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide practical, business‑oriented legal advice to cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Experience identifying, assessing, and managing regulatory risk while enabling business objectives in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong legal drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to independently manage matters from issue‑spotting through execution.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non‑lawyers and other business partners.

Responsibilities

• Primarily leverages knowledge of legal specialty in providing counsel as it builds its knowledge of the business context in which it operates.
• Review and prepare legal documents prior to presentation to management for execution to ensure accurate expression of the legal content.
• May receive specific direction from management or more senior law professionals as to the outcomes, process and schedules expected.
• Collaborates with the business units that it serves in order to achieve corporate objectives and mitigate unnecessary business risk.
• Research legal principles and precedents, engage and manage outside counsel, draft legal documents, gather relevant case related information using multiple sources and methods, provide work guidance to other professional, paraprofessional and support staff in developing solutions to problems presented.
• Maintain currency and fluency in the legal and business trends that could impact those business units within Walgreens that it serves.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees