Legal Services Manager

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Legal Services Manager overseeing claims submissions and legal processes at ATI. Leading a team focused on efficient legal service delivery while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

  • Leads the daily operations of a team focused on professional and general liability claims submissions processes, deposition coordination & preparation processes, and health and employment record subpoena response processes
  • Responsible for day-to-day correspondence and negotiation with third party law firms regarding records fees and fees payable for clinician testimony
  • Assists with the preparation of ATI employees involved in litigation as witnesses
  • Facilitates leadership decision making by analyzing options, forecasting future costs and making smart recommendations that fit the desired ATI outcomes
  • Utilizes a hospitality and customer focused mindset for managing escalations, change management and communication planning
  • Applies process improvement mindset to understand workflows and enable the process to flow more smoothly leveraging enterprise level systems
  • Optimizes and leverages technology blended with workflow/process discipline to ensure complete work in the most effective and efficient manner
  • Partners across the broader legal, compliance and other ATI teams to connect workflow "dots" to ensure efficient and effective execution
  • Expedites delivery of oral and written responses by establishing and maintaining strong relationships with third party attorneys and record copy services
  • Handles confidential information related to ATI, its patients and its employees
  • Maintains client confidence by keeping client/attorney information confidential
  • Handles client intake procedure and file management
  • Serve as point of contact for clients regarding administrative matters
  • Resolve gaps and customer specific scenarios related to legal services while showing empathy, understanding and seeking to find win-win resolutions for ATI, its patients and its employees
  • Acts as a liaison with other departments and outside agencies, including high level staff such as CEO, CFO, senior management
  • Achieves financial objectives by assisting with the preparation of legal team operational budgets, analyzing variance and initiating corrective actions
  • Work with attorneys to support billing compliance
  • Works independently and within a team on special and nonrecurring and ongoing projects. Acts as a project manager for special projects, which may include managing insurance renewals, planning and coordinating multiple presentations, disseminating information, and handling communications, etc.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or JD and 3+ year as a member of an in-house legal team or law firm or equivalent years of experience as a member of an in-house legal team in lieu of degree
  • Bachelor’s degree or JD and 5+ year as a member of an in-house legal team or law firm or equivalent years of experience as a member of an in-house legal team in lieu of degree (preferred)
  • At least 3 years litigation experience required
  • 3+ years as a member of an in-house legal team or law firm
  • At least 3 years litigation experience
  • Proven experience with claims management (preferred)
  • 5+ years as a member of an in-house legal team or law firm (preferred)
  • 3 or more years of supervisory experience (preferred)
  • Healthcare legal and compliance experience (ex., HIPAA, Stark, AKS)