Senior Legal Analyst

Job Description

The Senior Legal Analyst provides paralegal support to the Litigation & Investigations Team in the Legal Department. This is a highly visible position requiring regular face-to-face, telephone, and written contact with a wide variety of stakeholders both within and outside of the organization. The Senior Legal Analyst represents Intermountain and the Legal Department in a professional manner, functioning with a high level of confidentiality, knowledge, courtesy, efficiency, and thoroughness.

This position works under the direction of an attorney but uses their own judgment in composing correspondence, reports, discovery materials and/or contracts. This position has routine access to confidential data pertaining to patients, employees, financial, and/or other legal matters and must maintain privacy and confidentiality requirements.

This is a fully remote position, with occasional time in-person at the Key Bank Tower in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Coordinates with Attorneys, Courts, Professional Licensing Boards, Witnesses, and Intermountain Stakeholders on litigation issues, including locating witnesses and documents, responding to subpoenas, scheduling hearings and depositions, preparing discovery, filing documents and supporting witnesses through litigation. Works with highly sensitive legal issues and confidential personal health information. Evaluates subpoenas for legitimacy, handles questions on subpoenas and patient authorizations from all company entities and obtains missing information to correct invalid subpoenas.
  
  Obtains and indexes medical records, locates missing records, prepares litigation correspondence, reports and summaries, drafts court documents for attorney review, prepares affidavits, organizes litigation documents, coordinates documents productions, assembles initial answers to Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents, assists in assembling litigation documents and prepares exhibits for hearings. Manages litigation through the use of an electronic tool and database to ensure the proper handling of documents and communication.

• Paralegal Litigation
• Paralegal Contracts / Transactions
• Critical Thinking
• Communication (Verbal and Written)
• Problem Solving
• Client Relationships
• Interpersonal / Teaming

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five years of experience as a Paralegal or comparable role.
• Paralegal Certificate.
• Prior clinical or RN background working as a paralegal or comparable role.
• Experience handling a high volume of complex cases, including medical malpractice and multi-patient litigation.
• Experience as a Paralegal in a law firm setting.

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving:
  Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Salt Lake City

Utah