Staff Attorney

We take great strides to ensure our employees have the resources to live well be healthy continue learning develop skills grow professionally and serve our local communities. We invite you to apply for a career with Blue Cross.

Residency in or relocation to Louisiana is preferred for all positions.

Position Purpose:

This position is responsible for providing legal services to all areas of the organization with responsibilities as assigned by legal department management according to the skills of the incumbent. This position will have a general focus and handle any potential corporate law matters including but not limited to governance regulatory filings contracts employment privacy litigation etc.

• This role does not manage people
• This role reports to this job: Chief Legal Officer or their designee
• Necessary Contacts: In order to effectively fulfill this position the incumbent will be in contact with: Senior management officers of the organization fellow employees outside counsel professional associations governmental entities regulatory agencies and consultants.

How You Contribute to the Organizations Mission in this Role:

• Performs high level legal research and analysis in numerous areas of law and policy often involving novel and complex issues to provide a thorough legal analysis with regard to pending legal issues.
• Draft memos as required and evaluate relevant law and regulations impacting the organization.
• Advises senior management of the legal ramifications of proposed corporate strategies resolution of corporate legal issues and legislative and regulatory developments to position the organization as the preeminent health care company.
• May participate as counsel or advisor in disputes with members or providers.
• Drafts edits and analyzes a wide variety of documents such as legal memoranda and actively participates in the state and federal regulatory processes to maximize the organizations strategic position in the marketplace.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the accountabilities and essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned within your scope of responsibilities.
• Job duties are performed in a normal and clean office environment with normal noise levels.
• Work is predominately done while standing or sitting.
• The ability to comprehend document calculate visualize and analyze are required.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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Additional Information

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In support of our mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians Blue Cross encourages the good health of its employees and visitors. We want to ensure that our employees have a work environment that will optimize personal health and well-being. Due to the acknowledged hazards from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and in order to promote good health our company properties are smoke and tobacco free.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana performs background and pre-employment drug screening after an offer has been extended and prior to hire for all positions. As part of this process records may be verified and information checked with agencies including but not limited to the Social Security Administration criminal courts federal state and county repositories of criminal records Department of Motor Vehicles and credit bureaus. Pursuant with sec 1033 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 individuals who have been convicted of a felony crime involving dishonesty or breach of trust are prohibited from working in the insurance industry unless they obtain written consent from their state insurance commissioner.

Additionally Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is a Drug Free Workplace. A pre-employment drug screen will be required and any offer is contingent upon satisfactory drug testing results.