⚖ Assistant Corporate Counsel
📍 Location: Remote, United States
💼 Job Type: Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt
🏢 Department: Legal
✈ Travel: Occasional
📋 Position Overview
The Assistant Corporate Counsel will support CDL's internal legal function with a primary focus on:
• Commercial contracting and transactions
• Healthcare regulatory matters
• Corporate compliance support
• Risk management
• Licensure and regulatory filings
• Corporate governance
• Business-oriented legal guidance
The ideal candidate will bring strong corporate and commercial transaction experience, excellent drafting and negotiation skills, sound legal judgment, and the ability to translate complex legal matters into clear, practical guidance.
This position requires someone who can balance legal risk with business objectives while helping internal teams move initiatives forward responsibly and efficiently.
📝 Key Responsibilities
Commercial Contracts and Transactions
• Draft, review, revise, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including:
• Master service agreements
• Customer and vendor contracts
• Equipment lease and purchase agreements
• Radiopharmaceutical purchase and sale agreements
• Software and technology agreements
• Consulting and professional services agreements
• Nondisclosure agreements
• Other business and operational documents
• Support negotiations with customers, vendors, healthcare partners, technology providers, consultants, and other third parties.
• Review contract terms for legal, financial, operational, compliance, and risk considerations.
• Support the contracting process from intake through execution, including issue identification, revisions, internal approvals, and documentation.
• Assist with the development and improvement of contract templates, standard legal language, playbooks, and internal contracting procedures.
Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Support
• Provide legal support on healthcare regulatory matters involving compliance, privacy, fraud and abuse, licensing, accreditation, state-specific requirements, and operational risk.
• Partner with the Compliance team on policy review, regulatory monitoring, training support, issue management, corrective action planning, and documentation.
• Review policies, procedures, guidance documents, and internal communications related to compliance, operations, patient care, privacy, and business conduct.
• Monitor changes in laws, regulations, agency guidance, and industry standards that may affect CDL's operations.
• Support audit readiness through the organization and maintenance of contract files, regulatory materials, and compliance records.
Licensure and Regulatory Filings
• Assist with Certificate of Need matters, ambulatory care facility licensure, facility-related filings, and other healthcare regulatory submissions.
• Conduct legal and regulatory research involving state healthcare requirements, facility operations, licensure rules, and Certificate of Need laws.
• Coordinate with internal departments, outside counsel, consultants, government agencies, and business leaders to obtain documentation for filings and regulatory responses.
• Track filing deadlines, renewal dates, submissions, and related follow-up requirements.
Risk Management and Legal Guidance
• Identify, evaluate, and communicate legal risks associated with commercial transactions, vendor relationships, operational activities, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide practical, business-focused legal guidance that appropriately balances risk, compliance, timing, and organizational objectives.
• Support dispute prevention and resolution involving contracts, vendors, customers, and operational matters.
• Assist with legal analysis for growth initiatives, partnerships, corporate transactions, new service lines, and process improvements.
• Coordinate with outside counsel when needed, including managing information requests and reviewing work product.
Corporate Governance and Legal Operations
• Assist with corporate governance matters, including entity documentation, resolutions, written consents, meeting materials, and corporate records.
• Maintain organized contract files, legal templates, matter trackers, documentation repositories, and status reports.
• Help improve legal intake, contract review, approval, and communication processes.
• Prepare legal summaries, contract issue lists, risk assessments, and business-facing materials for leadership.
• Maintain the confidentiality of company, employee, patient, financial, legal, contractual, and strategic information.
🎓 Education and Licensure
• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school required.
• Active license to practice law required.
• Pennsylvania licensure is preferred. Candidates must otherwise be able to become licensed or authorized to practice in Pennsylvania, as applicable.
• Qualifications
• A minimum of five years of corporate, commercial, healthcare, or transactional legal experience is preferred.
• Experience within a reputable business law firm, healthcare organization, in-house legal department, or highly regulated business environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Healthcare regulatory or healthcare transactional experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with vendor agreements, customer contracts, service agreements, technology agreements, NDAs, and other commercial arrangements.
• Experience involving HIPAA, healthcare compliance, fraud and abuse considerations, state licensure, accreditation, Certificate of Need processes, or facility-related regulatory matters is a plus.
💡 What You Need to Be Successful
• Strong legal research, analytical, drafting, negotiation, and issue-spotting abilities.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical, and business-oriented guidance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across legal, compliance, finance, commercial, operations, human resources, and executive leadership teams.
• High levels of professionalism, discretion, judgment, confidentiality, and integrity.
🎁 What CDL Nuclear Technologies Can Offer You
At CDL Nuclear Technologies, we recognize that our continued success is made possible by our talented employees. We are committed to providing our team members with meaningful work, professional development, and opportunities to grow alongside our organization.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
💰 Competitive compensation
🏥 Medical, dental, and vision benefits
🩺 Short-term disability coverage
🛡 Company-paid long-term disability coverage
❤ Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
📈 401(k) retirement plan with company match
🏖 Paid time off and paid holidays
🤝 Employee referral program
🛍 Employee discount programs
📚 Hands-on training and professional development
🚀 Opportunities for career growth and advancement
Benefits are subject to applicable eligibility requirements and the terms of the respective benefit plans.
🌟 Build Your Legal Career with a Growing Healthcare Organization
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established and growing national healthcare company where your legal expertise will directly support business growth, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and informed decision-making.
If you are a collaborative, detail-oriented attorney who enjoys solving complex problems and helping business partners move initiatives forward, we invite you to apply and become part of the CDL Nuclear Technologies team.
