Responsible for providing legal analysis and consultation to business partners on impacts in an environment that is continuously evolving. The Associate Attorney will partner closely with the business to determine its ultimate goals, assess risk, and provide creative solutions.
- Proactively identifies and analyzes legal issues and risks presents clear opinions, advice and recommendations, and helps ensure legal compliance across the full spectrum of the enterprise.
- Drafts a variety of legal documents and memos, opinions, and pleadings where appropriate, with direction from the attorney or senior attorney on more complex matters.
- Serves as internal counsel for substantive areas of law as required, with ability to quickly learn unfamiliar areas of law.
- Develops and maintains productive working relationship with business partners
- Assist business partners with identifying and evaluating business objectives, legal risks, and liabilities and provide support and counsel beyond strictly legal advice.
- Juris Doctor degree in Law required.
- Must be a member in good standing with the State Bar of Michigan or possess the ability to become a member upon being hired.
- Up to 6 years of previous experience.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and in a team environment.
- Highly developed sense of ethics, integrity, discretion and judgment.
- Ability to develop rapport and engender confidence with business partners.
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to provide clear legal analysis and opinions on matters.
- Strong verbal communication skills, as is necessary for negotiation and to effectively present information and respond to questions from regulators, business partners, management and third parties.
- Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
- Working knowledge of analyzing, interpreting and writing contracts, interpreting statutes, governmental regulations, general business and legal periodicals, professional journals and technical procedures.
About the company
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is a nonprofit corporation and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
BCBSM's commitment to Michigan is what differentiates it from other health insurance companies doing business in the state. That mission has never changed. Nearly 70 years ago, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan started with a purpose to provide people with the security of knowing they have health care when they need it.
Today, that nonprofit mission is the same and the company is accomplishing it in many ways, including:
Offering access to health care coverage for everyone, regardless of circumstances
Never dropping your coverage for health reasons
Partnering with the state to cover more than 32,000 children through MIChild
Providing financial support to 30 free clinics statewide
Contributing more money than any other company to provide Michigan with better health and health care
Advocating and educating through Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Health Care
For more on the history of BCBSM, please visit our section on historical highlights: http://www.bcbsm.com/home/bcbsm/1930.shtml