Summary
Job Description:
Baptist Health is looking for a Legal Assistant to join our team in Louisville
Maintains a close and highly responsive working relationship with the day-to-day activities of the attorneys and others in the Legal Department. Utilizes legal office skills, including word processing skills and ability to assume responsibility without direct supervision. Performs work of a highly confidential nature; makes decisions within the scope of authority; and relieves Legal Department attorneys of designated administrative duties. Demonstrates flexibility, initiative, teamwork, good judgment, knowledge of internal and external customers, broad knowledge of organization and company policy and procedures.
Essential Duties:
• Conduct general legal research, review and draft basic legal documents, preparation of investigative letters, assembling documents and exhibits related to regulatory investigations, and drafting correspondence under the direction of attorneys.
• Prepare and disseminate reports from Legal Department electronic billing system, litigation case management system, and document management system upon request.
• Promote corporate integrity through compliance with the BH Corporate
• Maintain signed contracts in the electronic contract management system, filing, and setting up files.
• Scan and close Department files.
• Become cross-trained to provide support and back-up for Department paralegals, contracts administrators, and litigation and claims analyst.
• Prepare and maintain Litigation Trial and Mediation calendar.
• Prepare weekly department calendar.
• Setup in-person and virtual meetings for members of the Legal Department including scheduling coordination and sending electronic invitations; prepare and disseminate meeting materials; reserve meeting room(s); prepare room and obtain necessary equipment.
Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required
Associates degree OR 5 years of job-related experience in lieu of a degree
Clerical and administrative duties in a legal office or legal department preferred
Work Experience
Education
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
