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Lead Paralegal- Healthcare Transactions

Walgreens

Job Summary

In close coordination with Legal Counsel, the Lead Paralegal applies advanced knowledge of highly complex legal concepts to support the legal department and businesses on a range of pharmacy and healthcare programs, operations, and strategic initiatives, with a focus on payor contracting. The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating and drafting transactional documents and an understanding of relevant federal and state regulatory frameworks.




Job Responsibilities
  • Works independently on a variety of legal matters, including negotiation with outside/opposing counsel and resolution of legal issues.
  • Effectively and regularly communicates with legal counsel, staff and business to understand goals and achieve objectives.
  • Works in coordination with Legal Counsel on complex legal issues and administers law department activities.
  • Researches highly complex legal issues and relevant topics relating to Walgreens business operations.
  • Investigates facts and applicable law and searches pertinent sources. Independently develops oral and/or written presentations to communicate findings.
  • Represents Company externally to customers, vendors, opposing counsel and government agencies and resolves legal issues using negotiation and legal experience.
  • Demonstrates independent judgment and critical thinking to proactively identify issues, appreciate commercial/operational impacts and report on findings to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Analyzes contracts, pleadings, statutes, decisions, correspondence and other documentation to independently evaluate legal position and makes recommendations to attorneys based on legal precedence or law.
  • Drafts legal documents, communications and reports under minimal attorney supervision.
  • Provides guidance by training, coaching or mentoring other paraprofessionals and/or other staff.
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.

Basic Qualifications
  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of paralegal experience in a corporate law department or law firm OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 6 years of paralegal experience with a corporate law department or law firm
  • Experience evaluating information to determine compliance with standards, laws, and regulations.
  • Experience processing information (such as compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data).
  • Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
  • Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
  • Experience using advanced analytical skills to independently review, draft, negotiate and prepare documents.
  • Experience using written communication and grammatical skills to draft/compose legal documents, communications and reports.
  • Experience utilizing interpersonal and team-building skills to foster collaboration and establish positive relationships.
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree
• Paralegal certificate from an ABA-certified paralegal program.
• Experience using legal research tools; such as LexisNexis or Westlaw.
• Experience in a retail environment and/or healthcare setting

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

#VHDEI

The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits

Salary Range: $65000 - $113,750.00 / Salaried
Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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