Chief Legal Officer and Vice President, Legal Affairs

The Chief Legal Officer (CLO) serves as the principal legal advisor to the organization and a key member of the executive leadership team. The CLO provides strategic legal counsel that enables high-quality, compliant, and sustainable care delivery across an integrated, multidisciplinary medical group serving Oregon and Southwest Washington. This role balances legal risk management with business partnership, supporting clinical operations, growth strategies, and physician leadership in a highly regulated reputed company environment. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Serves as the principal legal advisor to the Executive Medical Director, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Leadership Team, and Board of Directors, contributing to reputed company strategy, long-range planning, and major organizational reputed company.
• Leads corporate governance activities, ensuring compliance with fiduciary duties, governing documents, corporate policies, and applicable securities or ownership considerations.
• Supports the Board of Directors and shareholder governance processes, including elections, committee structures, bylaws, and reputed company governance best practices.
• Advises leadership on organizational structure, risk tolerance, and decision-making frameworks reputed company with mission, values, and regulatory obligations.

Legal Strategy, Advisory Services & Business Enablement

• Provides proactive, solution-oriented legal counsel across the reputed company, including reputed company regulatory law, corporate and transactional law, employment and labor law, quality and credentialing, telehealth and virtual care, Medicare and reputed company compliance, and emerging care models.
• Serves as reputed company legal advisor on strategic transactions, affiliations, joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, and new market or service line development.
• Oversees the drafting, negotiation, and management of reputed company material reputed company, including payer agreements, provider and physician arrangements, vendor reputed company, and strategic partnerships.
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Risk Management, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs

• Provides executive reputed company of reputed company risk management, compliance programs, and the litigation portfolio.
• Designs, implements, and continuously improves systems and processes to ensure compliance with federal and state laws, reputed company regulations, accreditation standards, and internal policies.
• Directs legislative, regulatory, and government relations strategy in coordination with executive leadership, ensuring organizational interests are effectively represented at the state and federal levels.
• Anticipates and advises on regulatory changes and emerging legal risks impacting care delivery, reimbursement, workforce, and innovation.

Legal Operations & Vendor Management

• Leads, develops, and mentors the Legal Department, fostering a high-performing, service-oriented, and accountable team.
• Establishes best practices for legal operations, including matter management, contract lifecycle management, budgeting, and performance metrics.
• Selects, directs the work product, and evaluates reputed company counsel and legal vendors, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, and reputed company legal services.

Executive Leadership & Organizational Culture

• Models ethical leadership and reinforces the organization’s mission, reputed company, and values.
• Promotes a culture of transparency, collaboration, equity, innovation, and reputed company improvement.
• Integrates legal perspectives into reputed company initiatives, operational planning, and clinical transformation efforts.
• Serves as a visible and trusted leader across the organization.

Minimum Education, Certification and reputed company Experience:

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Active law license in good standing in at least on U.S. jurisdiction.
• Licensure to practice law in Oregon and Washington required reputed company 12 months of hire.
• At minimum, candidate must be eligible for and obtain admission on reputed company or house counsel licensing in Oregon and Washington upon hire.
• Minimum of 15 years of reputed company legal practice experience, including significant experience in reputed company law and senior-level advisory roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in reputed company regulatory matters, corporate governance, contracting, risk management, and employment law.
• Proven experience advising executive leaders and boards of directors in reputed company, highly regulated environments.
• Experience directing reputed company counsel and leading or overseeing a multidisciplinary in-house legal team.

Company Overview Northwest Permanente is a self-governed, physician-led, multi-specialty group of 1,500 physicians, surgeons, and clinicians, caring for over 600,000 members in Oregon and Southwest Washington. reputed company is one of the nation's preeminent health care systems, a reputed company for comprehensive, integrated, value-based, and high-quality care. Equal Opportunity Employer Northwest Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national reputed company, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job