Senior Manager - Legal Department

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

The Senior Manager - Legal Department supports the General Counsel and supervises litigation paralegals and administrative personnel within the Legal Department. The Senior Manager plays a key role in designing and implementing processes, systems, and best practices to improve the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of the legal team, facilitating change, and control costs.

This role will manage day-to-day legal operations, with lead responsibility for litigation-related matters, including but not limited to, patient record requests, and outside legal counsel invoices.

Management of Legal Department Employees:

• Oversee litigation paralegals and administrative personnel, including assigning and prioritizing work, managing caseloads and workflow, and providing guidance on conflict resolution.
• Ensures project and department deadlines, milestones, and goals are achieved.
• Exercises full authority for day-to-day personnel actions and performance evaluations; makes recommendations regarding hiring, termination, compensation, and promotions.

Litigation Management:

• Manage litigation matters, including day-to-day developments in pending litigation, and maintain appropriate communications with law firms and others retained to defend the Company and its employees.
• Review and scope document production requests; identify required resources and confer with lead attorney on most efficient approach to comply within all parameters and deadlines given.
• Oversee and assist with the creation and maintenance of case and other legal databases; collect and/or identify data for input into legal databases.
• Assist attorneys in interviewing and preparing witnesses for depositions.
• Partner with Accounting, IT, and other professionals to support litigation activities, including providing and updating recommended reserves for pending litigation matters, coordinating legal holds and tracking preservation responses, and managing document requests.

Coordination of Legal Services:

• Serve as primary point of contact for internal business units, departments, and functions regarding litigation and regular, recurring legal services and support.
• Work with the General Counsel to coordinate the provision of legal services and support, especially to the extent they are not assigned to internal or outside attorneys.

Required

• Paralegal certification or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Must have, or be eligible to obtain, a valid driver’s license and driving record within the standards outlined within Hanger’s Motor Vehicle Safety Policy and Procedures. 

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree

• Exhibit sound and accurate judgment; support and explain reasoning for decisions. Must understand business implications of decisions.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to think independently and take corrective action.
• Excellent customer service skills with the ability to engage others and establish rapport.
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to work independently, handle multiple priorities, meet demanding deadlines, adjust to sudden changes in workflow, and maintain high quality standards.
• Ability to maintain all job-related information in a confidential and private manner
• Able to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions and percentages.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and Legal Tracker (formerly Serengeti).
• Attendance, punctuality and overall dependability; consistently at work and on time, and available to provide required services.
• Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
• Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
• Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• 8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
• PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
• Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
• Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
• Relocation Assistance
• Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
• Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger’s BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest

Hanger, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. All conditions and privileges of employment are administered to all employees without discrimination or harassment because of race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, special disabled veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. The company will comply with all applicable state or local fair employment laws that forbid discrimination or harassment on the basis of other protected characteristics. Retaliation against any employee for filing or supporting a complaint of discrimination or harassment is prohibited.

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