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GW Attorneys
Robert Andrew Wild, Fredrick I. Miller
and Michael J. Keane Listed in 2009
New York Super Lawyers – Metro Edition
Great Neck, NY, October
8, 2009. Garfunkel Wild, P.C.
(GW) is pleased to announce that founding partner and
chairman Robert Andrew Wild, partner/director Fredrick
I. Miller and partner/director Michael J. Keane have
been named by Super Lawyers, Metro New York, as top
attorneys in New York for 2009. Only five percent of the
lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from
more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high
degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law &
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Minneapolis, MN. Each year, Law & Politics undertakes a
rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a
statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of
candidates by Law & Politics’ attorney-led research
staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and
a good-standing and disciplinary check. Super Lawyers
can be found online at
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lawyers can be searched by practice area and location.
Robert Andrew Wild, founding partner and chairman of GW,
represents an array of national and regional health care
providers, institutions, companies, practitioners and
not-for-profit groups, as well as clients in other
industries. His practice primarily focuses on complex
transactions for health care providers, including
regulatory, compliance, mergers and acquisitions,
antitrust, reimbursement, professional conduct issues,
patient issues, real estate, graduate medical education
and more. He was formerly an adjunct professor of health
law at Hofstra University Law School and Asst. Clinical
Professor of Health Law at Stony Brook University.
Mr. Wild has been included in Super Lawyers for three
years, has been named by Nightingale’s Healthcare News
as one of the country’s “Outstanding Hospital Lawyers”,
was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in
America for 10 years, as well as being selected for
inclusion in Chambers and Partners as America’s leading
business lawyer in “Health Care” for the past several
years. He is a frequent lecturer and author in the field
of health care law and has addressed a broad variety of
professional organizations and health care providers.
He is currently Chair of the Board of United Way of Long
Island and is on the Advisory Board of United Cerebral
Palsy of Nassau County and on the Board of the Long
Island Chapter of the American Heart Association. Mr.
Wild is also a member of the Board of St. John’s Law
School Alumni Association and Chair of the Audit
Advisory Committee for Nassau County.
Fredrick I. Miller, Partner/Director and head of GW’s
Health Care Practice Group, specializes in the
representation of hospital and other health care
providers, with emphasis on corporate governance,
managed care and dispute resolution, compliance,
corporate transactions and hospital/physician matters.
Mr. Miller is a frequent lecturer and a former member of
the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan New York
Chapter of HFMA. Mr. Miller has also been included in
Super Lawyers for three years and is also listed in the
2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Michael J. Keane, Partner/Director and Co-Chair of the
firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Group, is also a
member of the Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy
and Technology Practice Groups. Mr. Keane handles
clients’ pre-dispute, litigation and alternate dispute
resolution needs. His practice includes a variety of
commercial matters, as well as a large volume of
healthcare industry disputes. He has arbitrated and
tried contract and corporate disputes, real estate and
construction matters, antitrust cases, civil rights
cases, insurance disputes, and maritime actions. Trained
as a mechanical engineer, his technical background
proves particularly useful in construction, software,
mechanical/power system, and similar hi-tech cases. In
addition, Mr. Keane is an arbitrator and mediator with
the American Health Lawyers Association Founded in 1980,
Garfunkel Wild, P.C. maintains one of the most active
health care practices in the Northeast, while also
providing services to many non-health-related clients.
Always at the forefront of Federal and State
developments, GW meets a full range of needs including
EPA/environmental issues, strategic planning, complex
transactions, exempt and taxable financing, white collar
defense, litigation, fraud and abuse, estate planning,
elder law, tax issues, real estate, licensing, capital
formation, health information technology, privacy &
security and bankruptcy. GW maintains offices in Great
Neck, NY; Hackensack, NJ; and Stamford, CT.
For more information, visit
www.garfunkelwild.com. |
