Associate General Counsel

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Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

Description

Emory’s Office of the General Counsel seeks an employment attorney with significant counseling, litigation, and regulatory experience to serve as Associate General Counsel.  If that’s you, we’re thrilled that we found each other so quickly.  

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Help us make the world healthier

The Associate General Counsel will join an outstanding group of teammates representing Emory University and Emory Healthcare on challenging matters confronting one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers that includes highly ranked Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, a national primate research center, the only National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer institute in Georgia, a global health institute that supports initiatives in nearly 100 countries, and a leading research enterprise that receives more than one billion dollars in annual sponsored research funding and is responsible for the development of lifesaving treatments such as angioplasty, drug-eluting stents, and the most successful and commonly used HIV/AIDS drugs in the world.

You will represent Georgia’s most comprehensive health system that cares for patients making more than 6 million visits to Emory each year and that encompasses 11 hospitals, more than 490 outpatient provider locations, and the largest clinically integrated network in the state, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.

Are you ready?

The Associate General Counsel’s duties in support of Emory University and Emory Healthcare will include:

• Counseling clients daily on a broad spectrum of employment, student, faculty, and related issues, including labor relations
• Developing strategy for Emory employment and student-related litigation and regulatory issues, and managing those actions
• Managing other litigation and federal and state regulatory matters, and handling operational and transactional legal work on behalf of the Emory entities
• Developing new areas of sub-specialty as needs may arise
• Duties also may include participation on Emory Healthcare and University committees as the legal advisor

We are looking for candidates who:

• Work well on a team
• Have outstanding negotiation and verbal and written communication skills 
• Display high levels of emotional intelligence, including kindness, empathy, optimism, and self-awareness
• Approach work with a commitment to excellence, intellectual curiosity, strong work ethic, and integrity 
• Have excellent judgment, client counseling, multi-tasking, and decision-making skills
• Have a license to practice law in a U.S. state, and excellent academic credentials
• Have a minimum of five years of legal experience in the employment counseling and litigation field
• Preferably have in-house experience providing employment legal services
• Bonus points if your in-house experience includes a university environment
• More bonus points if you also have labor relations experience 
• A sense of humor also is valued!

Where will I work?

Two days a week (more or less, as needed), our Atlanta area team members collaborate in-person in the Administration building on Emory’s “quad”.  Ideally, the successful candidate will join us at Emory’s Atlanta location on these collaboration days.

Other benefits

Emory’s compensation is competitive with similar universities and comes with outstanding benefits, including:

• A generous contribution from the university, in an amount up to an additional 9% of your salary, to your 403(b) tax-deferred retirement savings plan.  (see details here)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including a three tier plan that lowers your deductibles and out of pocket maximums even more.
• Eleven paid holidays and two paid floating holidays.
• Three additional paid days off during the Winter Recess (Christmas to New Years).
• Four weeks of paid vacation per year, which increases with length of service.
• FMLA and six weeks of paid parental leave.
• A Courtesy Scholarship program that covers between 50% and 100% of tuition for your children who apply and are admitted for enrollment in Emory University.  (see details here)
• An exceptional gym which employees can join for $360 per year.

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD).

Emory University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Department of Accessibility Services at 404-727-9877 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD). Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.