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Career Profiles of the Profession
Who?
What?
Primary Practice Area:
Health Law, including privacy, technology, long term care, and employee
benefits.
When?
Years in Practice Area:
Since 1995
Years in the Legal Profession:
Since 1995
Where?
Employer:
Holland & Knight LLP
www.hklaw.com
Size/Sector:
1000+ attorneys
City/State:
Tallahassee, FL
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Law School:
Florida State University College of Law
Undergraduate School/Degree:
Florida State University, B.A. in English and Communication,
Magna Cum Laude
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Why?
Pluses/Challenges of Practice Area:
Health law is a very interesting practice area, because you deal
with a wide variety of clients including health care facilities,
manufacturers, individual providers, and health plans. The most
challenging aspect of this practice is keeping up with constant
regulatory changes.
Core Skills/Key Knowledge Needed in Practice Area:
Health lawyers must constantly keep up-to-date on the constant
and ever increasing changes in the law. Health lawyers must also
be able to understand the clients' business objectives and come
up with ways to help clients achieve their goals within what is
often a complex regulatory framework.
Advice to Law Students/Lawyers Interested in your Practice
Area:
It takes a lot of time to learn the things you need to know to
advise clients in the health industry. Many law schools now offer
courses in health law. The ABA offers numerous seminars in various
health-related topics. It would be helpful to take advantage of
these educational opportunities.
How?
Career Path to Current Position:
I began as a summer associate at Holland & Knight LLP after
my second year of law school, and started as an associate upon graduation.
Influences and Mentors:
My husband, Howard Hartsfield; my mother, Annette Hannon Lee;
Morris Miller, who hired me; Jerome Hoffman, my mentor and current
practice area leader at the firm.
Suggested Reading About Your Practice Area:
Any of the materials produced by the ABA's Health Law Section
including The Health Lawyer newsletter.
Job Search Techniques Used in Finding Your Position(s):
I was hired through the on-campus interviewing process at my law
school.
Bar Affiliations and Activities:
American Bar Association: Chair, Health Law Committee
of the Young Lawyers Division (1999-2001); Vice Chair of the Health
Law Section's eHealth and Privacy Interest Group (2001-2003); Coordinating
Group on Bioethics and the Law (2000-2001); Vice Chair, Medicine
& Law Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section
(1999-2000); Vice Chair, Health Law Committee of the Young Lawyers
Division (1997-1999).
Recent Professional Publications:
Other Liability - Tort and Regulatory, Chapter 8 of the
book, E-Health Business and Transaction Law, Barbara Bennett,
Editor-in-Chief, ABA Health Law Section, BNA Books 2002.
Co-author of HIPAA Privacy Compliance . . . What Next? Incorporating
HIPAA Into an Overall Compliance Program, 21 New Perspectives on
Healthcare Auditing, Journal of the Association of Healthcare
Internal Auditors, Inc. 22 (Fall 2002).
Q&A: Is There Help for HIPAA Headaches? Health Management
Technology (May 2001)
Phasing in Start II: How the New Physician Self-Referral Rules
Affect Clinical Laboratories, Vantage Point (a publication of
the Clinical Laboratories Management Association), (March 26, 2001).
Fraud and Abuse in E-Commerce: A Legal Check-Up for Your E-Health
Venture, American Health Lawyers Association HIT News (a publication
of the AHLA Health Information and Technology Substantive Law Committee),
Fall/Winter 2000.
Recent Professional Presentations:
HIPAA for Real People - Privacy Rule, moderated
a national telephone CLE sponsored by the ABA's Health Law Section,
Section of Science and Technology Law, Young Lawyers Division and
Center for Continuing Education on January 28, 2003;
HIPAA and Employers, part of a panel presentation titled
Privacy of Healthcare Information: What Every Attorney Should Know
About HIPAA, in Washington, D.C. at the ABA's annual meeting on
August 12, 2002.
HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Beyond, a national telephone
CLE sponsored by the ABA's Health Law Section and Young Lawyers
Division on May 9, 2002.
Federal Regulation of eHealth: a national Emerging Issues Conference
in Orlando, Florida sponsored by the ABA's Health Law Section,
February 9, 2001.
Stark Basics: a national telephone CLE sponsored by the American
Bar Association's Health Law Section and Young Lawyers Division
on October 27, 2002.
Memorable Career Moment:
Becoming a partner at Holland & Knight.
Intriguing Interests:
Sailing with my husband; playing the guitar and working
on scrapbooks with my daughter; church activities, including serving
as a collection center coordinator for Operation Christmas Child,
a children's charity run by Samaritan's Purse (www.samaritanspurse.org).
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