Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry

The healthcare industry faces ever changing business and regulatory demands with a complex array of legal issues. To meet the diverse needs of our clients, we have assembled a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys that have a clear understanding of the needs and complexities of the healthcare industry, including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors.  We know healthcare from every angle – business, medical and legal – which allows us to efficiently and cost-effectively exceed the expectations of our clients.

We serve a wide range of clients in this area, both for-profit and not-for-profit, including:

• Drug and Device Manufacturers
• Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers and Healthcare Systems
• Long Term Care Facilities and Home Health Agencies
• Physicians and Physician Organizations
• Physician Practice Management Companies
• Ambulatory Care Centers and Diagnostic Imaging Centers
• Dialysis and Disease Management Companies

In representing clients on a regional and national level, the firm draws on its expertise in product liability, professional liability, commercial litigation, government investigations, compliance, transactions, finance, intellectual property, real estate, tax, labor and employment and other areas.  The depth and variety of our healthcare-related expertise sets Butler Snow apart.  Teamwork – both internally and externally – is part of Butler Snow’s core philosophy and supports our high standard of representation. We understand the complicated challenges facing this industry. We have the talent to anticipate and address these challenges and the teamwork essential to creative solutions.  Just ask our clients – in a survey of major national and international businesses conducted by BTI Consulting Group, Butler Snow was one of the law firms most recommended by legal decision-makers in the pharmaceutical industry.

Our Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry practice includes:

• Commercial Litigation
• Product Liability Litigation
• Compliance and Regulatory Counseling
• Medical Professional Liability Litigation
• Transactions
• Labor and Employment Counseling and Litigation
• Appellate Advocacy
• Real Estate Transactions
• Intellectual Property Advice and Litigation
• Tax Counseling
• Legislative Matters
• Administrative Proceedings
• Insurance and Managed Care Issues
• Bond Financings
• Bankruptcy and Restructuring
• Employee Benefits/ERISA Counseling and Litigation
• Environmental Counseling and LItigation
• Government and Internal Investigations

Practice highlights

• Butler Snow's Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare trial attorneys have tried product liability and medical negligence cases around the country.  As national or regional counsel for companies involved in mass torts, these litigators have also managed thousands of cases to successful conclusions.
  
  

• Commercial litigation handled by this group ranges from breach of contract disputes to intellectual property and antitrust cases to tax controversies involving our clients.
  
  

• Representing the interests of physicians, both personal and professional, is a major focus of our practice.  We represent many of the largest physician group practices throughout Mississippi and in the Memphis, Tennessee area. Butler Snow also has been involved in all phases of physician network development (IPAs, PPOs, PHOs).
  
  

• Our healthcare attorneys have strong transactional practice backgrounds that have been instrumental in our ability to attract and handle significant healthcare transactional work.
  
  

• The labor and employment attorneys who are members of the group represent and counsel hospitals around the country on labor disputes and union organization, and regularly handle all types of employment litigation, including non-compete disputes as well as discrimination, for clients both regionally and nationally.
  
  

• Butler Snow is actively involved in compliance issues facing healthcare providers today. Butler Snow specializes in the design, development and implementation of compliance programs for numerous healthcare providers. This includes the training and auditing functions which are mandated for an effective compliance program.
  
  

• As a part of these compliance efforts, Butler Snow is actively involved in the various healthcare fraud and abuse initiatives, both at the state and federal level. Butler Snow routinely handles Medicare and Medicaid audits. In addition, our attorneys are regularly called upon to provide advice in connection with Stark issues, anti-kickback issues and antitrust issues facing healthcare providers.

For additional information on the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry, please contact Christy D. Jones or Charles F. Johnson III.