Tempus

Corporate Counsel

Tempus • $150K — $200K *
Chicago, IL 60629In-Person
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD Degree
  • 4+ years of relevant healthcare transactional experience at a law firm or in-house
  • Strong understanding of healthcare regulations including HIPAA and Medicaid
  • Current bar membership in at least one state
  • Impeccable judgment in evaluating legal risks
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Assist with transactional work across various business lines
  • Draft, edit, negotiate, and explain complex commercial agreements
  • Collaborate with healthcare providers, life sciences companies, and various internal teams
  • Work on legal issues related to AI, data privacy, and healthcare technology
  • Assist with intellectual property, employment law, and corporate governance issues
  • Evaluate legal risk and align with business goals
  • Contribute to maintaining a fast-moving and effective legal team

Benefits

  • Remote or hybrid work options in Chicago
  • Opportunity to work on complex and interesting agreements
  • Vibrant work culture in a rapidly growing technology and healthcare environment
  • Chance to develop skills in diverse legal areas
  • Supportive and collaborative team environment
  • Focus on impactful projects that contribute to healthcare advancements
Full 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. Tempus moves 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

About Tempus

Tempus is a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. The company enables physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through its interactive analytical and machine learning platform. Tempus provides genomic sequencing services and analyzes molecular and therapeutic data to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. The company also offers research services to enable discovery of new therapeutic targets and clinical services that support clinical trial design and monitoring. Tempus was founded in 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky and has raised over $8 billion in funding to date.
Learn more about Tempus
Size
1,001 employees
Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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