[Hiring] Senior Counsel, Government Investigation & Litigation @Kaiser Permanente

Role Description

This remote position may be based in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, D.C. or Hawaii.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, the position is also responsible for the following:

• Managing outside counsel relationships with a team of litigators to craft overall litigation strategy with the objective of implementing or facilitating company-wide business objectives.
• Leading collaborations with the business to implement key changes and ensuring alignment with overall business strategy.
• Overseeing cross-functional collaborations and communications with business groups, government, clinical, and other groups within KP to ensure achievement towards a common goal.
• Overseeing practical and effective legal advice and promoting proactive strategies to prevent, mitigate, and resolve legal, regulatory, and enterprise risk.
• Proactively identifying government enforcement risk areas and priorities and communicating and addressing these within compliance and operations.
• Providing training to compliance and operations on key statutes and regulations that are priorities for the government.
• Managing relationships with a team of lawyers to facilitate efficient and proactive legal services.
• Dealing with high-risk cases and identifying when to escalate as necessary.
• Counseling on remediation of identified risk areas over the course of an investigation.
• Implementing guidelines and standards.
• Establishing arguments in preparation of cases.
• Representing KP during legal proceedings, mediation, and negotiation of settlements.
• Providing strategic legal advice and working on unique and complicated risk initiatives, remediation, and/or compliance projects.
• Ensuring adherence to legal obligations and settlement agreements.
• Reviewing, evaluating, and aligning team efforts on resolving complex and unique claims and lawsuits related to unique subject matter expertise.
• Advising the enterprise on highly complex legal and risk matters.
• Identifying operational concerns and collaborating with the enterprise to approve solutions to highly complex and unique concerns.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years of experience as a practicing lawyer.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in litigation (discovery, law & motion, experts, pre-trial, trial/arbitration).
• Juris Doctorate (JD) or equivalent (e.g., Legum Baccalaureus [LLBs], Legum Magister [LLMs], and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws [PCLLs]).
• State Bar License (from any State where KP does business).

Requirements

• Significant experience as a practicing attorney, including at least 10 years of legal practice and 5 years of litigation experience ideally focused on government investigations, enforcement actions, internal investigations, and regulatory response, particularly in healthcare-related areas.
• Experience managing complex litigation portfolios with high reputational, regulatory, and economic risk.
• Ability to oversee and manage outside counsel relationships, including litigation strategy, cost control, and risk mitigation.
• Experience advising on high-risk legal, regulatory, compliance, and enterprise risk matters.
• Experience collaborating with senior business, clinical, government relations, compliance, operations, and legal stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment.
• Two (2) years of experience advising in the areas of fraud, waste, and abuse.
• Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law experience preferred.
• Prior experience advising on compliance programs.
• Prior experience performing pre-acquisition due diligence related to litigation risk.