Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Counsel serves as a key member of the City of Hope legal team.  The General Counsel provides a broad range of legal services to support City of Hope. This individual will take broad responsibility for providing legal advice and support regarding a variety of matters for City of Hope.  As an independent biomedical, treatment and academic center City of Hope faces unique and challenging issues.  This role functions as a critical partner in counseling and advising City of Hope’s teams.  

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Provide legal support for a broad range of legal matters within their area of practice.
• Act as a legal counselor/advisor for City of Hope’s contracting teams.  Draft contracts, amendments, supporting documents, policies and guidance materials.
• Assist other members of the City of Hope legal team on a variety of corporate transactional matters, including acquisition and affiliation transactions.
• Oversee, manage and work collaboratively on matters assigned to outside counsel engaged to represent or assist City of Hope, including review, direction and supervision of outside counsel's legal work.
• Effectively manage internal clients and provide legal advice in a practical and easy to understand manner, orally and in writing, to allow the business team to appropriately evaluate risk. 
• Provide training and education as appropriate regarding new developments and/or new policies. 
• Follow established organization and department policies, procedures, objectives, performance improvement, adherence to the workplace Code of Conduct and Compliance requirements.

Your qualifications should include:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 5 years of demonstrated experience in a law firm or in-house legal department providing legal support.
• Must be a member in good standing of one State Bar, preferably California, Arizona, Illinois or Georgia.
• Healthcare Experience preferred.

Ranges:

Min:$85.98

Mid: $114.78

Max: $143.59

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.