Assistant General Counsel Epocrates, Inc.

LEGAL JOB OPENING â€" EPOCRATES INC.
Position: Assistant General Counsel
The Assistant General Counsel will be primarily responsible for drafting, structuring, negotiating and advising on a broad range of commercial and corporate contracts, ranging from day to day agreements to highly sophisticated transactions, including M&A transactions. The ACG will also handle corporate legal matters for Epocrates under the direction of the General Counsel, as well as review and approve marketing materials, investor relation materials, and advise the company on appropriate actions to be taken to anticipate and guard against legal risk involving the company or its personnel. The ideal candidate will possess a background in corporate law with experience analyzing health industry law, regulation, and have a familiarity with technology and business/transactional law in regulated industries. This is a great opportunity to join a busy legal team in a dynamic, rapidly growing mobile software company.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Structuring, negotiating, and preparing customer agreements, strategic alliance agreements, non-disclosure agreements, consulting agreements, and sales and marketing agreements.
-Work closely with sales, business development, operations and finance/accounting.
- Lead and manage legal matters pertaining to revenue contracts.
-Advise senior management and business personnel.
Qualifications
- J.D. from a well recognized law school and excellent academic credentials
- Admitted to bar in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or California
- At least five years of experience in a large firm and ideally some in-house experience
- Regulatory, especially health industry, experience strongly preferred
-Experience with securities, corporate governance and intellectual property matters is a plus.
Required of All Employees of the Legal Department
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Meticulous attention to detail and process
- Ability to maintain poise in stressful situations
- Must be able to interact directly with senior business leaders and sales executives, without supervision.
- True desire to affect bottom line results in a team oriented environment
- Willingness to expand the range of job responsibilities as needed, based on the evolution of the company and the role
ABOUT EPOCRATES
As highlighted in New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today articles, Epocrates is a leader in providing innovative clinical solutions to physicians and other healthcare professionals at the point of care. More than 1,100,000 healthcare professionals, including more than 45% of U.S. physicians, use our mobile and web-based clinical reference tools to help save time and improve patient care.
We offer an excellent compensation package, which includes full benefits, such as health/dental coverage, holiday/vacation, 401(k), flexible spending accounts and tuition reimbursement. For immediate consideration, please apply directly via our careers website at http://www.epocrates.com/company/jobs/job_list.html.
Epocrates is an Equal Opportunity Employer.