Paralegal, Clinical Research and Development - AbbVie

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. 

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 and sits in AbbVie's Lake County, IL HQ Office in a hybrid capacity. 

Responsibilities

• Works independently on a wide variety of clinical research related legal work, including contract review and negotiation.
• Reviews and responds to queries related to legal sections of clinical research related agreements and Informed Consent documents.
• Maintains and updates clinical research related templates and forms with precision.
• Directly interacts and negotiates with individuals inside and outside AbbVie.
• Coordinates 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.
• Identifies and resolves routine 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 internal stakeholders, including  contract management support functions.
• Performs independent analysis of unique problems and proposes solutions.
• Escalates 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.
• Maintains clear understanding of legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to clinical research.
• 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.
• Interacts across all levels of management.

• Bachelor’s Degree and / or relevant legal education (Paralegal certificate).
• Minimum 2 years of paralegal experience, 3+ strongly preferred, including clinical research related experience in negotiating contracts; at least one year in a corporate environment preferred.
• 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.

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

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• 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. ​

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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, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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