Julia Walker is assistant general counsel at Atlantic Health System, which includes some 400 facilities and nearly 17,000 employees. She has been with Atlantic’s legal department for eight years and oversees a team of four attorneys, two paralegals and staff. Last year she oversaw research and implementation of an automated contracts-management tool for providers; and renegotiated physician contracts in an effort that “would typically be sent to outside counsel” were it not for her expertise, one colleague said. “It would be impossible for the department to handle the volume of matters—many of them complex and regulation-driven—and ensure high-quality work and excellent service without the efforts of Assistant General Counsel Julia Walker,” the colleague said.

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