Paralegal, Clinical R&D

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

This position supports AbbVie's global Clinical R&D organization and will interact with attorneys in the Legal Division and R&D business. The position reports to Senior Paralegal II, Clinical R&D Legal.

Responsibilities:

• Works independently on a wide variety of legal work and complex contracts, including negotiation, drafting and review of clinical study-related agreements and legal issues raised in the following areas: confidentiality, clinical trials, services, and informed consent forms.

• Identifies and resolves routine and moderately complex legal matters in area of responsibility with minimal supervision.

• Develop knowledge of AbbVie's Clinical R&D business and supported client areas.

• Possess strong communication skills required to effectively gather relevant information from R&D business contacts and contract management support functions and directly interact and negotiate with individuals inside and outside AbbVie.

• Coordinate with AbbVie legal specialists on intellectual property and privacy law.

• Represents AbbVie externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, opposing counsel or government agencies and resolves legal issues using negotiation skills and legal experience.

• Performs independent analysis of unique problems and proposes solutions.

• Escalate legal matters to attorneys and manager as appropriate.

• Assists attorneys in resolving complex legal issues on projects involving multiple disciplines within legal department and/or multiple functional areas or divisions within AbbVie.

• Keeps abreast of changes in laws that affect client areas.

• Advises legal department managers of project developments in a timely manner.

• Executes core job responsibilities in a timely manner.

• Assigned matters generally have a significant impact on business activities and operations.

• Interacts across all levels of management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and / or relevant legal education (Paralegal certificate) required.

• Minimum 3 years of paralegal experience including significant experience in negotiating complex contracts and one year in a corporate environment.

• Excellent oral/written communication, organization/analytical and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and project management abilities are all required.

• Must be able to multi-task, analyze information, understand client needs, set and manage own work priorities and meet deadlines.

• Proficient in area of responsibility.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants