Health-Care Transactional Associate Attorney

Job Overview: A law firm in Washington, DC, is seeking a healthcare transactional Associate Attorney with 6 years of strong healthcare transactional experience. The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in and enthusiasm for healthcare issues and trends.

Duties:

• Handle healthcare transactional matters, including provider and health plan mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, joint venture transactions, and private equity deals.
• Manage health industry contracting, state licensure, and corporate governance matters.
• Provide regulatory guidance in areas such as fraud and abuse, state licensure, corporate practice of medicine/fee splitting rules, managed care, and health care antitrust.

Requirements:

• Have 6 years of strong health care transactional experience, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and joint ventures for healthcare stakeholders.
• Strong interest in and enthusiasm for healthcare issues and trends.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail; excellent legal research and analytical skills.
• Effective and efficient problem-solving capabilities, the ability to work independently and proactively, and the ability to develop creative solutions to meet client and team needs.
• Bar membership in good standing in DC.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with health industry contracting, state licensure, and corporate governance.
• Demonstrated regulatory experience in areas such as fraud and abuse, state licensure, corporate practice of medicine/fee splitting rules, managed care, and health care antitrust.

Education and Certifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Bar membership in good standing in Washington, DC.

Skills:

• Strong health care transactional experience.
• Regulatory background in health care.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and legal research abilities.
• Effective problem-solving capabilities.

This is a national law firm with an especially strong West Coast presence. In keeping with the firm?s LA roots, it counts the entertainment industry as one of its top clients, while also proving indispensable to clients in the energy, financial services and banking, government, health, real estate, technology, and consumer products sectors. With a client- and industry-driven approach, the firm is unique in its provision of interdisciplinary services, such as business strategy and consulting, a feature that enhances opportunities and stability. This firm puts its money where its mouth is when it comes to fostering professional development ? attorneys are given an ?investment account? ? a billable number to record time pursuing professional development activities. This, combined with leanly staffed matters, yields excellent opportunities for career advancement.