Principal Paralegal

POSITION SUMMARY

The Principal Paralegal serves as the Legal Operations Lead for the department. This role is dedicated to system management, workflow optimization, tracking legal assets, contract intake triage, document retention, and financial administration of outside legal spend. The Principal Paralegal ensures that both attorneys and compliance leaders have structured, audited systems to execute their duties seamlessly.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

This position reports directly to the SVP Enterprise Integrity, Chief Legal & Governance Officer

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS

While living and demonstrating our Core Values, the Principal Paralegal will:

• System Administration (Compliatric): Serve as the super-user and primary system administrator for the Enterprise contract and compliance management software (Compliatric), ensuring 100% database accuracy and data integrity.
• Triage & Workflow Coordination: Manage incoming legal and contract requests, triage assignments to the Associate Attorney or In-House Counsel, and track deliverables against established SLAs.
• Contract Expiration & Renewal Tracking: Maintain accurate records of all active clinical affiliations, vendor contracts, leases, and agreements, generating proactive 60/90-day renewal/termination alerts for leadership.
• Outside Counsel Spend & Invoice Auditing: Audit outside legal counsel and consultant invoices against engagement letters and fee schedules prior to SVP approval, tracking overall department legal spend.
• Document Retention & Compliance Governance: Maintain official legal repositories, execute document retention/destruction schedules per Enterprise policy, and log corporate licensing and accreditation filings.
• Investigative & Audit Administrative Support: Organize evidence files, coordinate interview scheduling, and compile investigative binders for the Director of Corporate Integrity during formal audits or internal investigations

OTHER FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate the organization’s Mission, Vision and Core Values in everyday work
• Represent the Enterprise at community events
• Build and nurture relationships through all levels of the Enterprise by demonstrating a genuine desire to develop enduring partnerships aligned around the achievement of common goals
• Foster and grow culture by having individuals and teams own their work to deliver amazing results
• Build trust, respect and collaboration in all business relationships
• Excel in a team environment, supporting and assisting the efforts of other team members
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein