A medical case management company announced on Wednesday the hiring of its first top lawyer.

Melissa Leigh will become Kepro's first general counsel and chief compliance officer. She will provide guidance on matters of governance, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, commercial, regulatory and employment. It is not clear when she started or if she already started at the company. A company representative did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“Melissa is a selfless leader who brings an extreme amount of success seen throughout her legal career,” Joel Portice, the company's CEO, said in the press release. “With Melissa's industry knowledge of guidance on legal matters and strategic business objectives, she will be a wonderful addition to the executive team.”

According to her LinkedIn profile, Leigh most recently worked at Intermedix, a health care information technology and analytics company. She worked at Intermedix since 2013, where she has worked as vice president and associate general counsel, chief compliance officer and, most recently, senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer. She also worked as the top in-house lawyer as ESi Acquisition Inc. and worked as general counsel of South Western Regional Planning Agency. She also worked as a community development coordinator at the Norwalk Development Agency. She graduated from Pace University School of Law.

According to its website, Kepro is the nation's largest “CMS-designated quality improvement organization and care management organization.” Kepro received backlash from the Oregon state government in January after the Associated Press found that 17 mentally ill patients had been improperly discharged by Kepro from state-funded residential facilities. The report indicates that the Oregon Health Authority hired Kepro to review the cases of 1,600 patients to determine if all of them needed to be in the facilities.