Medical-Legal Consultant

VitalCore Health Strategies; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday Pay

Medical

Dental

HSA

Life Insurance

Disability

EAP & Discount Center

Dependent Care FSA

Annual Bonus

Job summary

VitalCore Health Strategies seeks a highly motivated Legal Counsel to provide legal guidance across corporate matters. You will collaborate with leadership, managers, and outside counsel to support litigation, compliance, records management, and risk mitigation.

The role requires a law degree and strong research, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. Experience in corporate/healthcare law is preferred, with the capacity to communicate complex concepts clearly.

Qualifications

• Degree from an accredited law school.
• Experience in corporate law, litigation, healthcare law, compliance, or related legal environment preferred.
• Strong legal research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple matters, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex legal concepts practically and understandably.
• Sound judgment and ability to identify and address potential legal risks.

Responsibilities

• Advise on business transactions, claim liability, and legal rights and obligations.
• Analyze probable outcomes of cases using precedents.
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses.
• Prepare, draft, and review legal documents.
• Supervise legal assistants and manage legal workflows.
• Gather evidence to formulate defenses or initiate actions; interview clients and witnesses.

Skills

Legal research

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

VitalCore Health Strategies (VCHS), an industry leader in Correctional Health Care, has an opening for a Legal Counsel at our corporate office in Topeka, Kansas!

At VitalCore we pride ourselves on retaining ethical individuals who are committed to providing quality services. VitalCore’s Corporate Office is in Kansas with Regional Offices and facilities throughout the nation. Join our team and experience first-hand how VCHS is leading the pack in the correctional healthcare industry and help us to make a difference in this field!

Legal Counsel Benefits Package

• ~ Holiday Pay: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day
• ~ Medical
• ~ Dental
• ~ Health Savings Account
• ~ Life Insurance
• ~ Short Term/Long Term Disability
• ~ Employee Assistance Program and Discount Center
• ~Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• ~ Annual Incentive Bonus

Legal Counsel Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Legal Counsel to provide legal support and practical guidance across a broad range of corporate matters. This position will work closely with internal leadership, managers, and outside counsel to support litigation, compliance, records management, risk mitigation, and other legal matters affecting the company.

Legal Counsel Minimum Requirements

• degree from an accredited law school.
• Experience in corporate law, litigation, healthcare law, compliance, or a related legal environment preferred.
• Strong legal research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple matters, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex legal concepts in a practical and understandable manner.
• Sound judgment and the ability to identify and proactively address potential legal risks.

Legal Counsel Essential Functions

• Advises VitalCore concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of defending lawsuits, and legal rights and obligations.
• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents.
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses.
• Prepare, draft, and review legal documents.
• Supervise legal assistants.
• Examine legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.
• Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions, by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case.
• Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.
• Search for and examine public and other legal records to write opinions or establish ownership.
• Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.
• Perform administrative and management functions related to the practice of law.
• Help develop federal and state programs, draft and interpret laws and legislation, and establish enforcement procedures.