Karen Hall

Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel @The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.

Oakland, CA, US

Serve as an ethical, compassionate, and results-oriented executive who has extensive experience and excellent judgment resulting in timely, actionable, balanced and practical advice. • Provide legal expertise on all governance and legal matters to 39-member board of directors. • Serve as an essential member of the executive leadership team, effectively managing complex business, legal, ethical and reputational matters across numerous cross-functional areas for an organization with physicians and employees.• Regularly serve as a key member of crisis, media and threat management teams. Serve as the primary lawyer handling significant corporate transactions, as well as negotiating and drafting an annual multi-billion-dollar contract. • Oversee and provide guidance and mentoring to team of lawyers managing all other contracts and legal advice. • Oversee all employment and commercial litigation/disputes and professional reporting and licensure matters. • Help to assess and effectively manage enterprise risk, professional liability and corporate and regulatory compliance. • Regularly review and assess all corporate policies for legal compliance and best practices. • Development and implementation of an Intellectual Property policy and program. • Direct and manage an expert legal team of twenty professionals. Consistently stay within budget through strategic management of external counsel and internal resources while also maintaining company-leading employee satisfaction and engagement scores for the Office of the General Counsel.• Work closely with the Government Relations teams to assess and determine advocacy strategy regarding new legislation.

Southern Methodist University

B.A., Political Science, Economics, Women Studies

Yale Law School

J.D.