Associate General Counsel | Commercial Litigation, Legal Strategies, and Policy

Associate General Counsel | Commercial Litigation, Legal Strategies, and Policy

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Associate General Counsel will primarily be dedicated to supporting AbbVie’s Global Legal Strategies and Policy team, which seeks to influence the external policy, legislative, and regulatory landscape to advance and protect AbbVie’s interests. This attorney will partner closely with the Global Legal Strategies and Policy team to provide litigation insights on projects (past or ongoing subjects of which include the 340B drug pricing program, the drug price negotiation provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, various provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and various presidential Executive Orders). The Associate General Counsel will also be responsible for developing and executing proactive litigation strategies aimed at improving the external policy, legislative, and regulatory landscape in alignment with the Global Legal Strategies and Policy team’s priorities and vision.

Responsibilities

• Partner with lawyers in AbbVie’s Global Legal Strategies and Policy team to understand business challenges posed by the existence and/or application of policy, legislative, or regulatory schemes, and contribute to developing creative, yet practical, strategies to address them.
• Accurately assess litigation opportunities and risks.
• Develop proactive litigation strategies, and direct outside counsel in executing them.

Key Stakeholders

• AbbVie Global Legal Strategies and Policy group; AbbVie Government Affairs; AbbVie Corporate Affairs; various AbbVie business groups and functions.

Qualifications

• Law degree from an ABA-accredited law school and in good standing with the state bar of the jurisdiction in which your office will be located (or the ability to gain licensure in the state where your office will be located) required.
• Minimum 9+ years of relevant experience practicing law.
• Experience litigating against or on behalf of governmental agencies or other governmental entities, in lawsuits regarding the enactment or enforcement of statues or regulations and other agency actions.
• Experience litigating issues and doctrines arising in lawsuits regarding legislative, regulatory, and public-policy matters, such as the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act, Due Process, Separation of Powers, the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause, and the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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