Associate General Counsel (On-site)

Improving the Lives of Patients through High-Quality Chiropractic Care TVG-Medulla, LLC (Medulla), where our goal is to foster the growth of healthcare organizations that provide high-quality, evidence-based musculoskeletal care, enabling them to serve and enrich the lives of a growing population of patients, is in immediate need of a senior level corporate generalist attorney, focused on transactional matters. The position will report to the General Counsel, and has tremendous potential for upward professional mobility and career advancement into executive leadership.

Overview:

Medulla currently provides support and services to three comprehensive chiropractic care brands, Chiro One Wellness Centers, MyoCore Personalized Pain Care, and CORE Health Centers, all industry leaders in evidence-based, patient outcomes-centered care. As the largest privately-owned chiropractic organization in the country, with clinics under management in multiple states and a rapidly expanding footprint, Medulla provides management resources to these organizations with full-scale experienced teams of professionals and specialists including marketing, clinical operations, legal, revenue cycle, human resources, IT, real estate, facilities maintenance and more.

How You Can Make a Difference

We are seeking a motivated, independent, business savvy corporate generalist and transactional practitioner, with a healthcare regulatory and real estate background, who will dive deeply to understand our business model and objectives and work closely with the management team and our support functions to execute on various major company initiatives. The Associate General Counsel will be a key member and leader of Medulla's Legal Services Department, with a special focus on contract and lease drafting, review and negotiations, managing legal issues in day-to-day operational matters that occur at Medulla's managed chiropractic clinics and corporate offices, regulatory/administrative matters, and litigation. Additional responsibilities include providing guidance and advice on real estate and general corporate matters.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of business contract review and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation, in addition to general corporate law expertise. He/she will seek to understand the applicable laws and regulations of our business in order to provide sound advice and counsel. He/she will be collaborative with stakeholders, partners and customers to effectively support the needs of the business.

What Youll Be Doing
Provide 'second chair to the General Counsel in departmental leadership as needed in the General Counsel's absence
Draft, review and negotiate real estate leasing transactions
Draft and negotiate chiropractor Employment Agreements and amendments
Review and negotiate service partner (vendor) contracts, including IT and Marketing, to ensure terms are reasonable and within the company's risk tolerances
Directly handle some litigation/potential litigation, administrative agency/regulatory matters
Updated 12/9/2024
New entity creations - Secretary of State entity formations, UCC-1 filings, drafting Operating Agreements, obtaining IRS FEINs
Practice management documents - Preparation of all practice management agreement templates for managed companies
Provide assistance in M & A transactions, including written legal due diligence assessments and post-closing deliverable schedule preparation, monitoring and completion
Provide advice and counsel on day-to-day operations matters at the clinical or corporate levels, including HIPAA/Privacy and other patient care issues
Provide advice and counsel to Compliance, Revenue Cycle/Billing and Marketing
Provide support to the General Counsel and Legal Assistant
'support executive leadership on ad hoc projects and initiatives

What You Will Need To Be Successful
'self-sufficient practitioner who proactively and preventively approaches issues considering multiple different perspectives from a 360 degree analysis
Ability to strike sensible and practical balance between legal risks and sound business judgment
'significant demonstrated experience in business operational environments and proficient at managing multiple different day-to-day challenges and problems that may arise
Excellent independent judgment, strong analytical skills, high attention to detail, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
Experience in handling real estate leasing transactions
Experience with interacting at senior levels with business management and professional customers and stakeholders
Adept at working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively work with various departments and levels within Medulla (including senior management) and manage cross functional teams, including Clinical Operations, Real Estate/Facilities, Finance
Ability to handle ambiguity, manage many matters simultaneously and quickly pivot from one situation or task to another
'solution-oriented; thinks outside of the box in confronting new issues and pursuing novel approaches to old problems
'strong ability to listen, provide perspective and context, and influence results
Computer proficient, as well as in online legal research
Flexibility to work long hours as necessary based on business needs
Team attitude that no job is too big or too small
Thrives in a roll-up your sleeves and own the outcome environment

Education, License & Certifications, Work Experience
License to practice law in the State of Illinois; licensure in other states would be a plus
10 or more years or more of both in-house and law firm practice in healthcare corporate and business operations, real estate, litigation and vendor contracts
Experience representing clients in healthcare industry (especially regulatory/ administrative matters, such as HIPAA and the corporate practice of medicine) is required
Knowledge of management services organizational matters, such as the friendly physician model, is preferred
Prior exposure to private equity portfolio companies would be a plus

Disclaimer

All team members agree to consistently support compliance and TVG-Medulla, LLC policies and Standards of Excellence with regard to maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licenser requirements (if applicable), and Medulla procedures and protocols. Must perform other related duties and assist with project completion as needed. Team member may be required to provide necessary information to complete a DMV (or equivalent agency) background check.