Posted 7/30/2025
Corporate Counsel – Litigation
Req ID: 374229
Job Category: Legal
Shift: Day
Schedule: Full time
Work Location: Providence Valley Office Park-Renton
The Role
The Corporate Counsel position is responsible, under the guidance of Department of Legal Affairs (DLA) Leadership, for providing valued, strategic, and practical legal advice and support for Providence St. Joseph Health (“Providence”) in a wide range of diverse litigation and dispute matters, including general liability, medical malpractice (as appropriate), commercial disputes, regulatory enforcement, and internal investigations, and for specific projects as assigned.
The ideal candidate brings strong litigation skills, a collaborative mindset, and a proactive approach to risk mitigation and case strategy. This role works closely with Risk Management, Compliance, Claims, and operational leaders to protect the organization’s interests while advancing its mission of delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.
This role is hybrid and can be located in either Seattle, WA or Irvine, CA.
Essential Functions
- Manage a portfolio of active litigation matters, including general liability, professional liability (as assigned), contract disputes, business torts, and regulatory enforcement.
- Coordinate closely with Risk Management and insurance carriers on pre-litigation claims and insured matters.
- Oversee outside counsel: approve strategy, budgets, pleadings, discovery, and resolution recommendations.
- Advise internal stakeholders on litigation risk, early case assessment, and settlement strategy.
- Support internal investigations and responses to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and administrative inquiries (excluding employment-related matters).
- Serve as legal liaison for complex tort claims, facility incidents, and enterprise-level disputes.
- Participate in the development of system-wide litigation protocols, early warning systems, and risk mitigation initiatives.
- Provide education and guidance to operational teams on litigation trends, claims processes, and documentation practices.
- Maintain accurate tracking, documentation, and reporting of litigation and dispute matters.
- Assume responsibility for administrative functions within DLA, as assigned.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Active admission and license to practice law in either California or Washington.
- At least 5-10 years of relevant litigation experience (law firm experience is a plus), including experience with general liability, healthcare-related claims, or commercial litigation.
- Ability to manage multiple matters and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including risk, compliance, claims, and operations.
- Superior communication skills in both written and verbal presentation, including all aspects of legal writing technique and procedure, and the ability to convey complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
- Ability to function effectively and complete projects in a timely manner in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with attorneys and staff within DLA and Providence.
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Pay Range: $78.33 – $138.50
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Answer the call. Providence.jobs
When applying online, please reference job number 374229.
Providence is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Posted 7/30/2025
Corporate Counsel – M&A & Transactions
Req ID: 373949
Job Category: Legal
Shift: Day
Schedule: Full time
Work Location: Providence Valley Office Park – Renton
The Role
The Corporate Counsel position is responsible, under the guidance of Department of Legal Affairs (DLA) Leadership, for providing valued, strategic, and practical legal advice and support for Providence St. Joseph Health (“Providence”) in a wide range of complex mergers and acquisitions, and healthcare transactions, including joint ventures, affiliations, partnerships, divestitures, and other healthcare-related business arrangements, and for specific projects as assigned.
The Corporate Counsel provides legal advice, and strategic business consultation, including providing opinions and guidance to executive management teams and other internal business partners.
This role is hybrid and can be located in either Seattle, WA or Irvine, CA.
Essential Functions
- Draft, review and negotiate transaction documents and contracts, with an emphasis on complex agreements including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financing and credit, and internal reorganizations, and related documents such as confidentiality, non-disclosure, and equity purchase agreements.
- Draft and reviews legal documents, including but not limited to governing documents (e.g., articles, bylaws, etc.) and agreements in compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, and policies, and in accordance with relevant legal relationships.
- Provide counsel related to regulatory compliance.
- Ensure all transactions comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations, including the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, and fraud and abuse laws.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, including finance, operations, and compliance, to structure and execute transactions that align with business objectives.
- Support lead transactional attorneys and internal business teams in various legal and corporate projects.
- Assist with and conduct legal due diligence in connection with corporate transactions.
- Collaborate within DLA to streamline the delivery of legal services; provide consistent, effective legal advice; and manage legal resources
- Provide valued, strategic, timely and effective leadership to the internal stakeholders focusing on responding to business partner needs; and providing practical solutions to complex legal issues.
- Function independently with respect to highly complex contracts and transactions.
- Assumes responsibility for administrative functions within DLA, as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Active admission and license to practice law in either California or Washington.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience (some law firm experience is a plus).
- Strong proficiency in drafting and negotiating agreements related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and internal reorganizations.
- Experience with entity formation, corporate finance, health care organizations, for-profit as well as non-profit transactions preferred. Experience with start-ups and innovation a plus.
- Ability to recognize and weigh business and legal risks, think strategically and advance practical solutions.
- Ability to provide sound and practical advice on legal and business matters in a complex, fast-paced environment to a broad range of business teams.
- Superior drafting skills, especially the ability to draft contract language that is clear, concise, and easily understood, creating templates and processes to improve efficiency of the contract review process.
- Superior communication skills in both written and verbal presentation, including all aspects of legal writing technique and procedure, and the ability to convey complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
- Ability to function effectively and complete projects in a timely manner in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with attorneys and staff within DLA and Providence.
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Pay Range: $78.33 – $138.50
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Answer the call. Providence.jobs
When applying online, please reference job number 373949
Providence is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Posted 7/3/2025
Associate General Counsel
About the role of Associate General Counsel
For Premera, Regulatory is not just a control function, but also an enabling one. Our clients, many of them marquee organizations, need benefits packages that meet both employee and corporate needs and distinguish them on the marketplace. Regulatory works closely with our Sales and Marketing team to ensure that our offerings can meet the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders.
The Associate General Counsel specializing in benefits law and regulatory matters provides legal and other consultative services in a variety of matters affecting the company’s businesses and operations. In this role, you will be a key player in ensuring that we are helping lead the market while keeping us in alignment with regulatory requirements.
What you’ll do:
- Provide legal analysis and consultative services that help the organization achieve its business objectives. Provide advice in a collaborative manner that is consistent with the company’s values and applicable laws and regulations and provides for a practical balancing of legal risks with business results.
- Provide legal and regulatory guidance and counsel regarding benefits law including but not limited to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), ERISA, related tax law requirements and state benefit mandates.
- Partner directly with clients and leaders.
- Maintain knowledge of client’s current business activities, as well as an awareness of applicable statutory laws, regulations, and judicial developments.
- Draft and review business agreements, legal filings, and other documents.
- Facilitate coordination with other business units and departments as necessary on complex issues and effectively communicate relevant guidance to clients.
- Bring a strong command of general legal principles, business knowledge, and a growing expertise in specialization.
- Identify and evaluate the degree of legal risks associated with an issue.
- Understand the regulatory environment affecting the business and represent the company’s interests externally.
- Work with other business units and departments to address external issues.
What you will bring:
- Juris Doctor (J.D.)
- Must have passed WA State Bar Exam or be eligible to take exam.
- Five years of experience in a major law firm, corporate setting, or government agency providing legal services in a progressive legal environment to business or government clients.
- Two years of experience providing legal/regulatory services regarding benefits law including but not limited to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), ERISA, related tax law requirements and state benefit mandates a plus.
- Prior healthcare or insurance background a plus.
To apply for this position, please visit our website via the link below.
https://premera.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/premera/details/Associate-General-Counsel_R28019