Corporate Counsel, Healthcare Privacy

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The Corporate Counsel, Healthcare Privacy works closely with senior attorneys to provide legal guidance to leadership on a wide range of privacy, healthcare, and data use matters, with a strong emphasis on advising on the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and permissible uses and disclosures of protected health information. Reviews new and ongoing business activities to advise on federal and state patient and consumer privacy laws, including HIPAA, CPRA, and related company privacy policies and procedures, and helps incorporate privacy by design into business reviews. Provides practical legal guidance on HIPAA issues involving all pharmacy lines of business including specialty pharmacy operations and hub services. Performs privacy review of contracts, including negotiation of DPAs, BAAs, and data use agreements as well as reviewing contracts related to de-identified data. Keeps current on HIPAA guidance, healthcare privacy enforcement trends, and industry developments. Partners and collaborates with peer reviewing teams such as the Legal Division, Data Governance, Information Security, Pharmacy Operations, Compliance, and Government Relations to advise on privacy components of new projects, products, programs, and services and potential impacts of new and evolving privacy laws.

Job Responsibilities

• Handles routine legal matters which generally focus on applying knowledge of one or more legal specialties
• Typically receives specific direction from management or more senior law professionals as to the outcomes, process and schedules expected while developing a deeper knowledge of the business operations of the company
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to execute legal strategy
• Assists on cases, matters and projects, performs and supervises research, reviews standard documents and routine contracts, and prepares routine filings.
• Develops and implements internal legal policies and best practices to enhance operational efficiency
• Works to develop fluency in legal concepts impacting the work performed

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About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
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Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and at least three (3) years of post-bar attorney legal work experience in a combination of law firm
• 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 with time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates
• Experience collaborating across business lines to develop and/or execute departmental strategies
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing legal guidance on privacy requirements of federal and state patient and consumer privacy laws such as CCPA, CPRA, and HIPAA and company privacy policies and procedures to incorporate privacy by design into reviews.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: $125000 - $218,750.00 / Salaried