Provides strategic advice, guidance, and handles legal and regulatory matters which could include (in random order) healthcare business transactions and contracts, hospital system operations and governance, healthcare related regulatory investigations and litigation, employment, medical malpractice, general vendor/commercial claims and litigation, managed care, advice to affiliated organizations including health plan and/or intellectual property matters, nonprofit governance and tax matters, public law issues, and all related functions and activities. Analyzes and reviews contracts, including agreements for clinical services, managed care and commercial payor relationships, complex transactions including key business arrangements, purchasing, employment, real estate transactions, business associate agreements, construction services, professional services, research affiliation, and other documents related to the operations of a large public, safety net, academic health system.