Senior Compliance Attorney
$165,000–$165,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Conduct legal research and analysis on state and federal laws governing abortion care and reproductive health services. Provide timely compliance advice to clients to mitigate risks in the rapidly evolving U.S. legal landscape. Establish strong client relationships by coordinating with partner organizations and outside counsel while implementing systems to track ongoing compliance matters. Collaborate with the U.S. Litigation team to integrate compliance support into legal services and represent the Center at public events and coalition meetings. This role requires a New York or DC bar member with at least seven years of healthcare law experience, working in a hybrid model of three days in-office and two days remote.
Required Qualifications
- Member in good standing of the bar of New York or DC based on the office where the attorney is based.
- If not currently admitted to that bar, the candidate must be a member in good standing to another state's bar and agree to become admitted within eighteen months of their start date to the bar of New York or DC based on the office where the attorney is based.
- At least seven (7) years of post-law-school legal experience.
- Excellent research, writing, and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues to non-legal audiences in a clear and succinct manner.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, including ability to handle multiple tasks and meet multiple deadlines simultaneously, and to provide rapid responses to client inquiries in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
- Ability to maintain high level of expertise in relevant substantive law.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate, delegate, and supervise junior attorneys and paralegals on a project basis.
- Strong commitment to the Center's mission, purpose, and values, along with experience or knowledge of reproductive rights legal issues, reproductive justice, racial justice, or other human rights, civil rights, criminal law, or social justice issues.
- Demonstrated commitment to inclusive equity work and incorporating inclusive equitable principles into legal, programmatic, and partnership work.
- Valid work authorization that does not now and will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by The Center for Reproductive Rights.
Desired Qualifications
- Membership in multiple jurisdictions is a plus.
- Demonstrated expertise in healthcare law; experience providing direct compliance advice to clients and undertaking complex legal analysis of state laws and regulations; experience on abortion-related legal matters and/or experience in the reproductive rights, health, and justice movement is a plus.
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