Legal Intern

Legal Intern

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

Bring us your experience, your head for strategy, your strength with relationships and your eye for opportunity. In return we offer an unmatched place to grow and develop your career among a richly diverse group of businesses driven by the power and stability of a leading health care organization. Come help us heal and strengthen the health care system as you do your life's best work.(sm)

Are you looking to gain legal experience within a highly successful business across Ireland and the UK? As a legal intern at Optum Ireland & UK, you will experience what it is like to provide legal advice and support to the group’s fast-growing businesses in Ireland and the UK and would work closely with various legal teams across affiliate companies in the US and Europe. You will be exposed to a number of our key practice areas, including corporate governance, real estate, compliance, commercial contracts, technology, and intellectual property. We will provide continuous support throughout your internship and you will have the opportunity to work directly with a team of five lawyers and various business teams.

• Introduction to challenging and interesting legal work in an in-house environment supporting sites in Ireland and the UK over a 9 – 12 month period.
• Working under the guidance of lawyers on a large variety of legal issues
• Attending both internal and external training sessions and meetings alongside members of the Legal Team
• Conduct comprehensive legal research relevant to the company’s operations in various jurisdictions.
• Collaborating with colleagues across Optum Ireland & UK and affiliate businesses
• Collaborating to work in partnership with other support teams throughout the business, including Finance, Tax, Compliance and Privacy.

• This full-time intern position will start in in September 2024.
• This internship will last for 9 – 12 months, and the successful candidate may elect to be based in the Dublin office or the Letterkenny office.

• Currently pursuing a law degree (or a recent graduate of a law degree)
• Strong academic background
• A genuine interest in and understanding of law
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team player
• Excellent organizational skills and strong work ethic
• Open to developing skills, not only in the law, but also in the areas of business and innovation
• Ability to use own initiative and proactively stay informed about evolving legislation and market dynamics.

You must be available from September 2024 – May 2025. Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country in which you are making an application. (Proof will be required to support your application).

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.