Corporate Counsel (Remote)

Tempus; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus seeks an experienced healthcare transactions attorney to join its Legal Team. You will draft, negotiate, and explain complex agreements across healthcare providers and life sciences, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and data privacy norms.

This role offers a remote or hybrid setup based in Chicago, with a fast-paced environment and opportunities to expand into corporate governance, fundraising, and regulatory work.

Qualifications

• JD Degree
• 4+ years of relevant healthcare transactional experience at an established law firm or an in-house role.
• Strong familiarity with the healthcare regulatory environment, HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid payment issues, Stark regulation, fraud and abuse issues, and data privacy regulations
• Current bar membership in at least one state
• Ability to work at in a fast paced environment
• Impeccable judgment, including understanding how to properly evaluate and communicate legal risks
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• A great teammate who is willing to join supportive and collaborative colleagues

Responsibilities

• Drafting, editing, and negotiating complex healthcare agreements across providers, life sciences companies, and research collaborations.
• Explain and advise on contractual risk and compliance considerations.
• Collaborate with internal teams across commercial, data science, product/engineering, finance, and HR.
• Assist with broader legal work in IP, employment, governance, fundraising, and regulatory matters.

Skills

Strong communication

Negotiation

Team player

Fast-paced environment

Education

JD Degree

Job description

Compensation: Chi: $150,00 - $200,000

Location: Remote or Hybrid in Chicago

Key Responsibilities

Your primary focus will be assisting with transactional work across our various business lines. Drafting. Editing. Negotiating. Explaining. Advising. Collaborating. The Legal Team handles complex commercial agreements of all types, all in service of our broader mission to help people live longer, healthier lives.

The agreements you will work on will be interesting - you will quickly be drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements with both healthcare providers and life sciences companies. You will work on an array of different types of agreements, including clinical and research projects, data license and transfer agreements, strategic collaborations, laboratory services agreements, agreements with payers, pharmaceutical companies, government entities and anyone else involved in healthcare, biotech and life sciences. You will have to work through new legal issues involving artificial intelligence, large language models, intellectual property ownership, data privacy, and cutting edge healthcare technology. You will also work on common corporate contracts, such as vendor agreements.

In addition to this transactional focus, you will get a chance to grow and expand your skill set by assisting with other types of general legal work in a rapidly growing technology and health care company. Some areas you might focus on include intellectual property, employment and human resources, corporate governance, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, and international issues.

To do this job well, you will work with various internal business units, including our commercial organizations, data science, medical affairs, product & engineering, finance, communications, and our people teams. You will assist in evaluating legal risk and opportunities with the projects our businesses are engaged in, and help facilitate our business goals. We move fast, and we take pride that the Legal Department sets the pace.

Qualifications

• JD Degree
• 4+ years of relevant healthcare transactional experience at an established law firm or an in-house role.
• Strong familiarity with the healthcare regulatory environment, HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid payment issues, Stark regulation, fraud and abuse issues, and data privacy regulations
• Current bar membership in at least one state
• Ability to work at in a fast paced environment
• Impeccable judgment, including understanding how to properly evaluate and communicate legal risks
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• A great teammate who is willing to join supportive and collaborative colleagues

Preferred

• Energized by working in a high throughput, open work environment where you are continually multi-tasking and re-prioritizing your work to respond quickly and meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity to explore new concepts and accept new challenges

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