Legal Counsel of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs
Company: Atlantic Health System
Role summary
Legal Counsel of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs is a role at Atlantic Health System in Morristown, New Jersey, United States (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-20. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Legal Counsel of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs
- Company
- Atlantic Health System
- Location
- Morristown, New Jersey, United States
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Category
- Healthcare Support
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-08-20
Atlantic Health System is looking for an experienced legal expert to help guide their corporate and regulatory strategy, offering a chance to make a meaningful impact in a major healthcare organization. It’s a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned professional to lead high-level compliance and governance initiatives within a stable, mission-driven environment.
Job description
Position Summary
Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel and Director, Legal Affairs, Counsel provides legal advice on healthcare regulations, privacy, and commercial transactional matters affecting a large integrated health system. The position serves as a trusted advisor to business and operational leaders, structuring and negotiating a broad range of commercial, clinical, and operational agreements while ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state healthcare laws and privacy requirements.
The role has particular responsibility for advising on healthcare privacy, data governance, information sharing, interoperability, and regulatory issues arising in connection with commercial transactions, digital health initiatives, and enterprise operations. This position will support technology-related transactions, however, many other files include privacy obligations which need to be addressed.
Essential Responsibilities
Healthcare Regulatory, Privacy & Commercial Transactions
Structure, draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements, ensuring compliance with applicable healthcare laws, privacy requirements, and organizational policies.
Serve as legal counsel on healthcare regulatory and privacy issues (ex: HIPAA, HITECH, the New Jersey Data Privacy Act) arising in connection with commercial transactions, strategic partnerships, clinical initiatives, and operational activities.
Advise clients regarding information blocking, interoperability requirements, TEFCA, business associate arrangements, data use agreements, health information exchanges, research collaborations, and other data-sharing arrangements.
Counsel business leaders on general contract terms and legal issues involving data governance, data ownership, permitted uses of data, de-identification, secondary use of data, information sharing, and contractual protections for PHI, PII, and other sensitive information.
Monitor and interpret evolving federal and state healthcare, privacy, and digital health regulations and provide practical guidance regarding their impact on contracting and operations.
Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a broad range of commercial agreements, including professional services agreements, physician and provider arrangements, purchasing and supply chain contracts, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, technology and software agreements, revenue-generating partnerships, and other operational contracts.
Support enterprise technology and digital health transactions, including SaaS, cloud services, software licensing, AI-enabled services, and data analytics, with particular emphasis on regulatory compliance, privacy, information governance, and risk allocation.
Partner with Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, and business leaders to ensure agreements appropriately address cybersecurity, vendor risk management, incident response, regulatory requirements, and contractual protections for sensitive information.
Advise executives and operational leaders regarding contractual rights and obligations, dispute resolution, risk mitigation, and contract interpretation.
Commercial Transactions
What Sets This Opportunity Apart
This position offers the opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor on healthcare regulatory, privacy, and commercial transactional matters within a leading integrated healthcare system. The role combines sophisticated commercial contracting with complex healthcare regulatory counseling, allowing the successful candidate to advise on strategic initiatives involving privacy, information sharing, digital health, and enterprise operations. As a member of a collaborative in-house legal department, Counsel will work closely with executive leadership, clinical and operational teams, compliance professionals, and business partners to develop practical legal solutions that advance innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance and protecting the organization's mission
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
Atlantic Medical Group
Atlantic Visiting Nurse
Atlantic Mobile Health
Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."
Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as wel
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