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Join our legal team

Join a team of counselors, advisors, and solution architects, partnering to help our purpose to save and improve lives
Members of our legal group work closely with senior management across the Company’s Corporate, Research Laboratories, Human Health, Manufacturing, and Animal Health Divisions. Among their responsibilities, they negotiate and draft highly sophisticated M&A, licensing, collaboration, and other agreements, advise on relevant antitrust, securities, and corporate laws impacting various projects and company initiatives, and supervise activities and manage relationships with outside counsel, as needed, to support our projects. 

Bring your unique perspectives and invent the future with us
The attorneys, paralegals, and other professionals in the legal group provide legal support and counseling for a broad range of complex transactions and employee compensation and benefits matters on behalf of our company, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, collaborations, and other business development transactions, manufacturing and research procurement and real estate. ​​​​​​​
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Get ready to go after something life changing
We are dedicated to our team members’ well-being, growth and development, and empower them to reach their full potential. Great ideas can originate from experienced team members as well as those who are just beginning their career journey. We value the fresh perspective each individual brings to every area of our business, striving for diversity across race, gender, and orientation. We know salary is an important factor, but other things matter too, like work-life balance, flexible hours, perks and benefits. Looking for challenges, cutting-edge technologies, and a culture dedicated to excellence? We invite you to explore the many opportunities that exist for you in our company.

Hear what members of our team have to say
As part of the Corporate Transactions team, most of the transactions we support are multidisciplinary and involve complex legal issues. For example, if I’m working on a strategic collaboration, I will routinely consult with colleagues in our regulatory, intellectual property and commercial practice groups. In addition, working at the company provides me with the opportunity to work on highly sophisticated, cutting-edge deals that have the ability to make a substantial impact on patients’ lives.
Kerry Jefferson Attorney
Many years ago when I first started with the company, I asked a doctor I worked with why he left private practice for a pharmaceutical company. The doctor stated that as a doctor he was bound to follow standard of care guidelines in his treatment of patients. However, by working at a pharmaceutical company, he could play a role in evolving the standard of care to better help patients. This spirit of innovation and desire to help people has always inspired me along with seeing the products we have developed make this desire a reality.
Rich Neff Attorney
Members of the Global Compensation and Benefits Group collaborate on cross-functional teams spanning the company’s global footprint which provides a unique chance to work hand-in-hand with talented and committed professionals on the leading edge of complex and innovative compensation and benefits matters and to build a global expertise in this constantly evolving practice area.
Michael Arseneault Attorney
Although we, in legal, may not work first hand with the research and development of medications, we have the unique and important responsibility of making sure that our scientists have the tools, materials and collaborative opportunities they need to develop medicines, making our world a healthier and safer place to live.
Jessie Dilley Paralegal
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