Benefits & Insurance Regulatory Counsel

Epiq Counsel; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiq Counsel seeks a Benefits & Insurance Regulatory Counsel to support a Fortune 500 client on employee benefits and regulatory matters. You will advise management and operations teams on ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, and related plans, translating complex requirements into practical guidance.

You will monitor regulatory developments, support benefit plans and contracts, and collaborate with compliance groups to anticipate issues and resolve them early.

Qualifications

• JD and active U.S. law license in good standing.
• 8+ years of legal experience handling a range of benefits and insurance regulatory matters.
• Solid working knowledge of ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and state and federal health insurance rules.
• Strong drafting skills and sound legal and business judgment.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and regulatory advice on health insurance matters at the state and federal level.
• Counsel business and operations teams on ACA, ERISA, and HIPAA issues, translating regulatory requirements into practical business guidance.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments that could affect the business and its benefits offerings and assess their impact.
• Support the company's benefit plans, including related contracts, open enrollment, carrier and broker matters, and the underwriting review process.
• Provide legal support for the company's 401(k) plan, including related contracts and compliance issues.
• Partner with the benefits operations and compliance groups, anticipating issues early and helping resolve them.

Skills

Legal drafting

Clear communication

Analytical thinking

Self-directed

Prioritization

Attention to detail

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Active U.S. law license

Job description

Epiq Counsel is seeking a Benefits & Insurance Regulatory Counsel to support a Fortune 500 client on employee benefits and insurance regulatory matters. This role will advise management and operations teams on ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, and benefits and insurance plan matters, and help the business stay current on relevant legal developments.

About the Client

Our client is a leading national provider of HR, payroll, and workforce solutions. The company is seeking additional legal support for its benefits operations and compliance functions.

Responsibilities

Benefits & Insurance Regulatory Advice

• Provide legal and regulatory advice on health insurance matters at the state and federal level.
• Counsel business and operations teams on complex ACA, ERISA, and HIPAA issues, translating regulatory requirements into practical business guidance.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments that could affect the business and its benefits offerings and assess their impact.

Benefit Plans, Contracts & Operations Support

• Support the company's benefit plans, including related contracts, open enrollment, carrier and broker matters, and the underwriting review process.
• Provide legal support for the company's 401(k) plan, including related contracts and compliance issues.
• Partner with the benefits operations and compliance groups, anticipating issues early and helping resolve them.

Qualifications

• JD and active U.S. law license in good standing.
• 8+ years of legal experience handling a range of benefits and insurance regulatory matters.
• Solid working knowledge of ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and state and federal health insurance rules.
• Strong drafting skills and sound legal and business judgment.
• Clear communicator who builds strong working relationships.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight deadlines.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and highly organized.
• Self-directed, with the ability to run matters independently and identify issues early.

Why This Role

This role offers the opportunity to do substantive, in-house benefits and insurance regulatory work for a Fortune 500 company. You'll support the company's health and retirement plans and work closely with its benefits operations and compliance groups. The work covers a broad range of regulatory, compliance, and contract matters, offering meaningful exposure across the organization.

About Epiq Counsel

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

It is Epiq's policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual's race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.