Stoel Rives

The Opportunity:

About Stoel Rives and the Health Care Group

Recognized as one of the premier health care practices in the Pacific Northwest, we serve as trusted advisors and help develop solutions that enable our health care clients to manage current changes and position themselves for success in the coming years. If you are interested in working with a group of collaborative, hard-working, and dedicated lawyers and staff, this is the place for you.

Healthcare Attorney (All Stoel Offices)

Role Overview

Stoel Rives LLP seeks an experienced attorney to join the Health Care Group. Candidates must have at least 5 years’ experience working with health care clients on federal and state regulatory issues.

Skills Needed to Be Effective in This Role

We pride ourselves in forming diverse teams with a wide array of interpersonal and professional attributes. We don’t expect one human to embody all of these skills, but if you have many of these skills, and are enthusiastic to learn, we encourage you to apply.

• Experience advising healthcare entities on issues related to Medicare, Medicaid, or other government health programs.
• Experience advising healthcare entities on health care operations, including licensing and medical staff issues.
• Familiarity with advising hospitals and health systems, physicians and physician organizations, behavioral health providers, pharmacies, managed care companies, federally qualified health centers, medical device manufacturers and distributors, and a variety of health care industry vendors.
• Experience on matters involving HIPAA and other health information privacy and security regulations, such as experience in negotiating business associate agreements, data use agreements, and data transfer agreements; conducting HIPAA risk analysis; data incident response and breach notification (including risk assessments); and electronic health records.
• Experience advising clients on federal antikickback and Stark regulations.
• A commitment to client service and team success.
• JD from an accredited university; and
• Membership in the state bar for the market where you are applying, or the ability to become barred in that state.

Healthcare Regulatory Attorney (Portland or Seattle)

Role Overview

Stoel Rives LLP seeks an experienced attorney to join the Health Care Group in the Portland or Seattle office. Candidates must have a minimum of 5-6 years’ experience working with health care clients on regulatory and licensing issues.

Skills Needed to Be Effective in This Role

We pride ourselves in forming diverse teams with a wide array of interpersonal and professional attributes. We don’t expect one human to embody all of these skills, but if you have many of these skills, and are enthusiastic to learn, we encourage you to apply.

• Experience with Oregon or Washington State health care regulations, state health care authority and/or office of insurance commissioner/department of insurance.
• Familiarity with enforcement for healthcare entities related to Medicare, Medicaid, or other government health programs.
• Prior experience in negotiating business associate agreements, data use agreements, and data transfer agreements; conducting HIPAA risk analysis; data incident response and breach notification (including risk assessments); and licensing of electronic health records.
• Experience with issues concerning Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement, health care operations, and/or medical staff a plus.
• Familiarity with other state and federal security requirements a plus (e.g., 42 CFR Part 2).
• Privacy or information security certification (e.g., CIPP/US, CISSP, CHISSP) preferred but not required.
• A commitment to client service and team success;
• JD from an accredited university; and
• Membership in the Oregon or Washington State Bar strongly preferred.

Stoel Rives: Part of Our Team

A broader question you may have is, “How will this position enhance my legal skills and career trajectory?” At Stoel Rives, we offer a unique lateral integration program and core competency model that are designed to provide a roadmap of the practical skills, abilities, and client service techniques our lawyers need to succeed and progress at the firm. We also established a New Lawyer Integration Program that has deepened our relationships and connections with our new lawyers, while providing them with the mentoring, resources, and information necessary for success.

How You Will Live Life Well at Stoel Rives: Compensation, Benefits, and More!

In addition to base compensation, Stoel Rives has a total rewards program that includes an annual discretionary bonus and rich benefits offerings. For example, our benefits offerings include paid family & medical leave (and an on/off-ramp program for expecting parents), unlimited PTO, a flexible schedule program, remote work options, and a sabbatical program for eligible attorneys. We also offer competitive and robust medical, dental, vision, life, long-term disability, AD&D, EAP, FSA, and Voluntary Life, ADD, and LTC options. We also provide a generous firm-contributed health savings account and a pre-tax transportation/parking plan. To help meet billable hour expectations, we also allow up to 50 hours of billable credit for diversity, equity, and inclusion-related activities, as well as an additional up to 50 hours for pro bono activities.

We are also proud participants of the ABA Well-Being Pledge, strongly believing that the well-being of our employees is paramount to the success of the firm. In addition, the firm’s Culture Committee supports the firm’s mission, vision, and values in bringing together spectacular client service and job satisfaction.

What We Are Doing to Ensure A Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Environment

Stoel Rives places a high priority on attracting and retaining lawyers with different backgrounds and life experiences. This makes us better and happier as people, as an organization, and as legal advisers. We are proud to offer many engagement opportunities including a firmwide DE&I Committee, Associates Committee, Pro Bono Committee, Affinity Groups, and Parenting Circle.

We proudly partner with Diversity Lab to implement innovative programs to advance Stoel Rives’ DE&I goals, including the aggressive metrics-based goals we’ve adopted as one of five founding Move the Needle Fund firms. Our efforts with Diversity Lab include certification under the Mansfield Rule, to boost the representation of diverse lawyers in our firm’s leadership by broadening the pool of candidates considered for opportunities.