The Associate University Counsel provides comprehensive legal counsel, strategic risk management, and operational support across the UNM Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC). The position serves as a key member of the Office of University Counsel''s healthcare litigation team, managing and overseeing complex medical negligence and healthcare-related litigation matters
Responsibilities include coordinating litigation strategy with outside counsel appointed by the New Mexico Risk Management Division; reviewing and approving significant pleadings, motions, discovery responses, and litigation-related documents; advising institutional leadership regarding litigation risks, case strategy, settlement considerations, and trial preparation; and serving as a liaison among outside counsel, Risk Management Division representatives, healthcare administrators, physicians, and other stakeholders. The position also manages and/or supports complex discovery and document production and privileging efforts, prepares and advises fact witnesses and individually named defendants for depositions and testimony, and assists with litigation-related hearings, mediations, and trials.
The Associate University Counsel will also have a role in supporting general clinical operations through participation in policy or program review, training on legal matters and research projects as assigned.
Applicants must be and remain licensed as an attorney, in good standing, by the Supreme Court of New Mexico, or licensed as an attorney by and in good standing with the highest court of another state and eligible to practice law pursuant to the limited license provisions set forth in Section 15-301.1 NMRA.
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