Staff Attorney

Shape the Future of Healthcare Through Law and Innovation!

Are you an attorney who thrives on solving complex challenges, advising business leaders, and making a meaningful impact in healthcare? Join UPMC's Enterprise Legal Services team and play a key role in supporting one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare systems. In this dynamic position, you'll partner with physicians, researchers, operational leaders, and senior attorneys to provide trusted legal counsel on a wide range of healthcare, regulatory, patient care, and research-related matters.

From supporting groundbreaking clinical research initiatives to helping navigate evolving healthcare regulations, you'll be at the center of decisions that drive innovation, ensure compliance, and advance patient care. This is a unique opportunity to develop specialized expertise, collaborate with diverse stakeholders across the organization, and build a rewarding legal career within a mission-driven healthcare environment.

Whether you're a recent law school graduate who just passed the bar or an attorney with a few years of experience, this is an excellent opportunity to grow your legal career in a dynamic healthcare environment. Apply today to join our team at the US Steel Tower with a hybrid schedule!

Responsibilities:

• Subject to supervision and oversight of senior UPMC attorneys:
• provide legal counsel to managers and staff throughout UPMC and address and resolve legal issues as they arise on a daily basis, such as in the areas of regulatory and patient care law.
• provide legal counsel for sponsored clinical research and related healthcare and research transactions and work closely with research administration, contracting, compliance, finance, privacy, regulatory, and operational stakeholders to facilitate research initiatives while managing legal and regulatory risk.
• provide legal counsel and legal services as identified below to UPMC's corporate departments and to those UPMC hospitals, divisions and business units to which the Staff Attorney is assigned, which may include interaction as necessary with senior leadership of such areas.
• Responsible for legal research, preparing legal documentation, and providing legal guidance within the organization with respect to non-complex contractual and business arrangements and compliance with legal requirements (including federal and state health care laws and regulations, as applicable).
• Review and recommend changes to corporate policy to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Apply general legal knowledge in areas that may include: federal and state health care laws and regulations (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid, licensure, accreditation, malpractice liability, medical staff, patient care law, behavioral health, guardianships, etc.), corporate law, taxation, real estate, labor and employment, antitrust, insurance, commercial and finance; and begin to develop specialized legal knowledge in one or more of such areas.
• Perform special project assignments for senior UPMC attorneys.
• Provide guidance with respect to contractual arrangements and prepare contractual and other legal documentation.
• Under supervision of more senior attorneys, may be responsible for one of more of the following: assistance in representing UPMC business units in hearings and proceedings at the administrative level; assistance in representing UPMC business units in moderately complex business arrangements; performance of discrete tasks in more complex litigation or business transactions or special projects
• Apply legal knowledge, analysis and judgment to identify alternative approaches and their relative merits and recommend solutions to routine and less complex legal problems.

• J.D. Degree required.
• Must demonstrate legal analytical skills, communication skills, legal writing skills, and problem solving ability.
• Pennsylvania license or obtain such license within six (6) months of date-of-hire required
• Pennsylvania Attorneys License
• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran