Negotiates with outside parties on regulatory and legal disputes, including settlements.Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, in alignment with the organizations strategic objectives.Monitors and manages outside counsel and outside legal budgets.Conducts in-house training sessions for medical and other professional staff and employees regarding relevant legal issues.Manages, assigns duties, and provides organized and well-defined instruction and direction to the legal staff, including paralegals.Anticipates and mitigates potential legal problems within the organization and develops strategies to avoid litigation and reduce potential areas of risk.Strategically leads various legal projects and negotiates workable solutions to complex legal issues.Serves as subject matter expert in various substantive legal areas.Serves as advisor to identified executives and business unit leaders.Serves as a liaison and cultivates relationships between the Legal Department and executive leadership, management, outside counsel, and governmental/regulatory agencies.Serves as a legal representative for the organization in mediations, arbitrations, hearings, trials and other outside legal matters.Provides support and assistance in the development and drafting of Standard Practices and policies.Provides legal direction and supervision on organization’s strategic initiatives, deals, and projects.Manages and advises clinical and business units on a broad spectrum of complex legal issues.Independently provides legal advice in diverse matters affecting the day-to-day activities of the organization by assisting, advising, investigating, researching and resolving legal matters.Provides coaching and mentoring to junior attorneys.Evaluates changes in laws and regulations, communicates those changes to business stakeholders and drafts policy changes, as required.