Senior Risk Attorney - Malpractice/Health Defense
Company: Houston Methodist
Location: Houston
Posted on: October 18, 2024
Job Description:
At Houston Methodist, the Senior Risk Attorney position is
responsible for risk, claims, and litigation management involving
high exposure and high-profile matters. The Sr. Risk Attorney
position safeguards Houston Methodist's (HM) interests by providing
guidance to internal clients and acting as the organization's
corporate representative in litigation and claims management. This
position provides counsel to prevent, mitigate, and eliminate asset
losses. The Sr. Risk Attorney position engages with
management-level clients to achieve measurable outcomes. This
position shepherds claims to an equitable resolution in a
financially prudent manner. To achieve this, the Sr. Risk Attorney
position applies relevant, advanced legal theories of civil,
commercial, and employment litigation, as well as criminal,
federal, and state regulations. This position formulates accurate
legal analyses and reports expected losses to department
leadership. In litigation management, the position coordinates HM
witnesses in multi-party cases; in particular, cases involving
executive leadership or sensitive matters. The Sr. Risk Attorney
leads and supports team members, and meaningfully contributes to
strategy planning and mediations and is responsible for ensuring a
suitable balance is struck between the degree of risk tolerance and
the successful delivery of healthcare services.PEOPLE ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS
- Provides clients with risk-focused legal advice in a manner
that is advantageous to effective change management practices.
- Provides supportive, goal-driven guidance to HM employees
through legal proceedings. Assumes responsibility for legal
proceedings that involve executive leadership.
- Utilizes an advanced ability to professionally engage with
business partners, internal clients, outside law firms, and vendors
to ensure financially-sound, successful outcomes in a timely
manner.SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Investigates events with a focus on legal, risk, and
reputational implications thereof, and employs high-level critical
thinking skills necessary to evaluate these exposures. Attends to
multiple complex, high-priority events with consistently thorough
outcomes.
- Generates and maintains claims and litigation files that are
thorough, concise, and accurate, so as to provide management with
meaningful information.
- Communicates in a manner that reflects the ability to apply
legal analysis to facts, offers recommendations pertaining to
claims and litigation strategy, enhancing operations on a system
level.
- Assists management in generating reports, and discusses report
findings in a manner that reflects a contemplative legal analysis
of aggregate information.
- Oversees and assists outside counsel or third parties in all
matters pertaining to litigation which includes management of
subpoenas, scheduling, discovery/production, witness meetings,
depositions, and internal relations.QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS
- Recognizes opportunities to eliminate or mitigate risks and
conveys these to leadership in a concise and knowledgeable manner
to bring about change. Recommends resolution based on established
legal theories, while applying HM's risk management
principles.
- Seeks creative solutions to enhance efficiency in the
department and collaborates with others or under the supervision of
management, as appropriate, to achieve a successful outcome.
- Under direction of department management, engages in oversight
and direction of outside counsel in a manner that comports with
HM's strategic plan. Maneuvers litigation toward anticipated
outcome with a focus on cost-savings and protection of
organizational values and reputation.FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Evaluates the legal merits of a matter and recommends
thoughtful and conservative indemnity and legal reserves. Submits
timely, comprehensive, and persuasive memoranda to secure financial
or trial authority. Submits written work that reflects an expert
degree of persuasiveness and understanding of a matter's value or
potential loss, and which requires minimal revisions by
management.
- Engages with outside law firms and vendors in a judicious
manner while ensuring that the highest-quality legal services are
rendered.GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Identifies and effectively utilizes resources to accomplish
multiple high-priority tasks in a limited amount of time.
- Maintains knowledge of relevant state and federal litigation,
legislative on-goings, and judicial changes that have the potential
to create an impact on the organization and departmental strategy.
Educates colleagues and stakeholders.This job description is not
intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other
reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston
Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and
responsibilities as the need arises.EDUCATION
- Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.)WORK EXPERIENCE
- Five years' experience at a law firm as an attorney focused on
a docket primarily comprised of medical malpractice or personal
injury OR three years' experience as an in-house risk attorney or
similar position.
- Experience as a licensed Physician Assistant (PA), Registered
Nurse (RN), Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP) preferred.
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