Paralegal - Hybrid
This position will provide professional legal support to the Department of Legal Affairs ("DLA") attorneys generally and/or in a specific practice area or across practice areas. This position will be responsible for the coordination, provision, and completion of various legal support tasks as requested by a supervising attorney or senior paralegal in support of Providence St. Joseph Health's various operations within its operating footprint.
Practice Area Specific Responsibilities
Corporate/Transactional/Governance ; Healthcare Operations
Corporate/Transactional/Governance
- Maintain corporate information in Providences entity management database (hCue).
- Assist with corporate filings (formations, qualifications, obtaining EINs, Certificate of Good Standing, UCC, foreign qualification process, revisions to corporate governing documents, obtaining fictitious business names, amendments, dissolutions, management changes, withdrawals, etc.)
- Track and assist with annual report filings and other compliance activities.
- Provide support in the areas of real estate, corporate transactions and related matters.
- May assist with quarterly due diligence and draw down processes for debt refinancing.
- Draft and prepare a wide range of documents, including resolutions, governance documentation, certifications, consents, reports, etc.
- Assist with maintaining/updating corporate organizational charts for Providence.
- At attorney direction assists with preparing documentation for a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and financings. This may include preparing or drafting due diligence request lists, document data rooms, form agreements, and closing binders.
- Assist cross-functional teams to support financings, M&A and other strategic transactions, including providing support and project management for due diligence and corporate structures.
Healthcare Operations
- Assist with a variety of matters to include but not be limited to, intellectual property matters including copyright, trademark, and patent filings; internal advice matters on a wide variety of subjects; regulatory matters, a wide variety of contracting matters, medical staff matters, and pre litigation disputes.
- Enter timely status updates in DLAs matter management system (Legal Tracker), ensure the matter record is complete and accurate, and ensure all documents are filed to the appropriate matter using DLAs document management system (iManage).
- May coordinate conflict waiver requests and ensures they comply with established requirements for reviewing and considering such requests.
- May assist with support for governmental inquiries, civil investigative demands, other regulatory investigations, and various components of litigation.
- Provide support for regulatory filings including certificates of need.
- Assist with matters related to payor contracting and medical staff.
- Assist with drafting and reviewing of wide variety of legal documents and agreements, including, but not limited to settlement agreements, physician/provider agreements, clinical education/affiliation agreements; Non-Disclosure Agreements; letters of intent; Business Associate Agreements; presentations; memos; correspondence; and other documents.
- May participate in the review and revision of operational policy reviews and revisions. Including research into relevant statutes.
- Maintain knowledge of various federal and state healthcare laws including Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Medicare and Medicaid billing rules, HIPAA-HITECH, and EMTALA, and explain the broad concepts of each law to a variety of audiences.
Essential Functions:
- Identifies issues consistent with experience such that the attorney can focus her/his attention on providing legal advice and counsel to business partners.
- Become familiar with and able to independently utilize Legal Tracker, iManage and various other platforms and document management systems used by DLA.
- May field calls from outside counsel and business partners when requested by the DLA attorney (or when said attorney is not available), as appropriate.
- Communicate directly and through correspondence with high level internal and external customers.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued theyre invaluable. Join our team at Providence Strategic And Management Services and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
Required Qualifications:
- Associate's Degree - ABA-approved Paralegal Studies Program or Certificate from a paralegal program at, or a degree from, an accredited secondary institution which requires at least 24 semester units in law-related courses.
- 2 years - Paralegal experience in a relevant practice area with an in-house legal team, or equivalent experience in a law practice setting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree- Paralegal Studies / Law / Legal Studies
- Coursework/Training - eDiscovery / Contract Management / Project Management
- Notary Public Designation/License upon hire.
- 2 years - Demonstrated experience performing substantive legal work for multiple attorneys in a relevant practice area.
- 2 years - General understanding/exposure to the health care industry working with large integrated health systems.
Salary Range by Location:
California: All Southern California - Except Bakersfield: Min: $37.17, Max: $57.71
Oregon: Portland Service Area: Min: $35.66, Max: $55.37
Washington: Western : Min: $37.17, Max: $57.71
Why Join Providence?
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.