Experience
Sonnenschein has over 50 full-time health care lawyers. In many cases, these attorneys have spent their entire careers in private practice as outside counsel to health care organizations. In other cases, Group attorneys previously worked for providers as in-house counsel, administrators, and clinicians. Our team also includes an impressive array of former, senior HHS and DOJ officials, including D. McCarty (Mac) Thornton (who served for 12 years as Chief Counsel to the HHS OIG) and Bruce Merlin Fried (who served as the Director of both HCFA’s Center for Health Plans and Providers and HCFA’s Office of Managed Care).
Expertise
By virtue of its size and experience, the Health Care Practice Group is able to serve clients operating in virtually every sector of the health care industry with respect to any health care related legal matter. As described further in the “Industries” section of our Web site, Group attorneys represent the following types of health care organizations and have particular expertise in the industries in which they operate:
On behalf of these clients, the Health Care Practice Group provides legal advice in connection with the full range of regulatory, corporate, transactional, litigation and other matters. More specifically, and as described further in the “Subpractice Areas” section of our Web site, Sonnenschein’s health care attorneys provide legal advice in the following areas:
National Perspective
The Health Care Practice Group is national in scope, with a presence in Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. We represent health care organizations operating in every state in the country, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. When combined with our experience and expertise, this nationwide presence gives us both a national and local perspective on the health care industry, and enables Sonnenschein to service health care organizations ranging from the largest multi-state health care systems, manufacturers and suppliers to much smaller community hospitals and physician practice groups.
Understanding Client Needs and Exceeding Client Expectations
Having collectively represented thousands of health care organizations over the course of many years, and having carefully monitored the health care industry’s regulatory, legislative and economic landscape for decades, Sonnenschein’s health care attorneys understand what clients want, need and expect: prompt, concise, creative, business-oriented solutions to pressing, complex legal problems. Both the Firm in general and the Health Care Practice Group specifically take great pride in providing precisely such solutions to precisely such problems.
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