Sr. Legal Project Specialist – Hybrid based in Nashville, TN at Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Nashville, TN
Sr. Legal Project Specialist – Hybrid based in Nashville, TN at Tenet Healthcare Corporation in Nashville, TN. Est. up to $100k. Apply with swipeandhired.
The Sr. Legal Project Specialist works independently to help Tenet’s in-house legal counsel efficiently manage a growing portfolio of legal matters by (1) assisting in the management and administration of Tenet’s business relationships with outside law firms and legal vendors; (2) serving as an operational primary point of contact with those outside firms, and; (3) developing and driving business process improvements that help streamline the delivery of legal services.
Position is based in Nashville. In office 2-3 days per week/work from home other days.
- Manage and administer business relationships with outside law firms and legal service vendors.
- Assist in set up and updating of legal matters in Tenet’s enterprise legal management, e-billing, case tracking, and budgeting software platform (LegalTracker).
- Assist in billing-related functions, including reviewing and analyzing legal invoices, ensuring proper cost allocation and posting to the correct legal matter, and identifying opportunities for cost reduction.
- Primary point of contact for Tenet Legal operations team and law firm client relations representatives.
- Litigation Support
- Work with Tenet in-house counsel to develop and establish litigation priorities and calendar.
- Help ensure Tenet’s outside counsel timely receive documents and information from various Tenet business functions so they can prosecute and defend legal claims efficiently and effectively.
- Work with outside counsel and internal Tenet stakeholders to help facilitate reporting of legal updates including litigation status updates and legal cost and net recovery reporting.
- Other Administrative Support
- Maintaining and updating litigation calendar used by Tenet lawyers, business clients, and witnesses.
- Provide other administrative support as needed (occasional).
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
- 3+ years of legal administrative support, paralegal, and/or project management experience is desirable. Healthcare or litigation experience is a plus.
- MS Word and Excel competency.
- Ability to learn and use other tools.
- Inquisitive self-starter, who can utilize existing resources to track down answers even when not readily apparent.
- Highly skilled at planning, organizing, time/task/resource management.
- Strong attention to detail and written communication skills (email).
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to get work done independently.
- Ability to work and manage across a wide range of business and executive team members without direction.
- Ability to work on a small but important team and willingness to pitch in as needed.