Greenberg Traurig's Miami office. Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM

Speakers

Health care and Food and Drug Administration practice shareholder Mark Mattioli and of counsel Caroline Brancatella of Greenberg Traurig are set to help lead this year's Pennsylvania Bar Institute Health Law Institute.

The Health Law Institute, slated to take place from Wednesday to Thursday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, draws health law professionals from across the commonwealth for two days of intensive learning, trend spotting and skills building.

Mattioli will join a panel Wednesday exploring the proposed changes to Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors and Stark Law Regulations and the impact they will have on structuring arrangements and compliance counseling.

The discussion will dive into navigating these potential shifting fraud reporting regulations offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, specifically the Office of the Inspector General and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Based in the firm's Philadelphia office, Mattioli brings more than two decades of health care industry experience to the table, with a practice that focuses on the complex legal issues facing a variety of health care entities, including hospitals, physicians, insurers, long-term and home health care providers, dialysis and clinical labs.

Beyond counseling, his practice also includes litigation involving antitrust, False Claims Act, breach of privacy, commercial disputes and other matters in Pennsylvania and across the United States.

A member of the firm's Albany, New York, office, Brancatella focuses her practice on health care issues centering on regulatory, contracting, transactional and compliance matters, primarily with government programs.

In addition, she specializes in issues related to the corporate practice of medicine and other professions as well as day-to-day provider issues.

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Conrad O'Brien partners Patricia Hamill and Lorie Dakessian, chair and vice-chair, respectively, of the firm's Title IX, due process and campus discipline practice, presented on "How to Avoid a Title IX Lawsuit" at the University of South Florida's 5th Title IX Conference in Tampa, Florida.

Hamill and Dakessian represent college students and professors nationwide who are subjected to campus disciplinary proceedings or who were disciplined by their colleges for alleged sexual misconduct and code of conduct violations following such proceedings.

They represent students and professors nationwide in disciplinary matters or related litigation involving colleges and universities.

Elected and Appointed

Ballard Spahr senior counsel Tom Sager—who previously served as general counsel and senior vice president at the DuPont Co.—was selected to co-chair the lawyers' committee for civil rights under law.

The lawyers' committee for civil rights under law is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that enlists the private bar's leadership and resources in its efforts to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law.

The organization focuses on the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

It seeks to promote fair housing and community development, economic justice and voting rights.

Sager will co-chair the committee with retired Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who served for 22 years as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

At DuPont, Sager helped pioneer the DuPont Co. Legal Model.

The model emphasized the retention and promotion of women and minorities.

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