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Eight Garfunkel
Wild, P.C. Attorneys
Listed in 2011 New York Super Lawyers®
- Metro Edition
Two Attorneys Also Featured in
2011 New York Rising Stars - Metro Edition
Great Neck, NY, October
10, 2011. Garfunkel Wild, P.C. (GW) is pleased to
announce that eight GW attorneys have been selected for
inclusion in the 2011 New York Super Lawyers – Metro
Edition. These include founding partner/chairman
Robert Andrew Wild, partner/director Andrew E. Blustein,
partner/director Roy W. Breitenbach, partner/director
Judith A. Eisen, partner/director Michael J. Keane,
partner Doris L. Martin, partner/director Fredrick I.
Miller and partner/director Burton S. Weston. Two senior
attorneys – Jacqueline H. Finnegan and Lauren M. Levine
– are featured in the 2011 New York Rising Stars –
Metro Edition.
Super Lawyers (www.superlawyers.com)
is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70
practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer
recognition and professional achievement. A publication
of Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers selects
attorneys using a rigorous, multiphase process that
includes independent research, peer nominations and peer
evaluations. Selections are made on an annual,
state-by-state basis. Rising Stars features top
up-and-coming attorneys who are 40 years of age and
under or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
Up to 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are named by
Super Lawyers; 2.5 percent are named to the
Rising Stars list.
Robert Andrew Wild,
founding partner and chairman, represents an array of
national and regional health care provider 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 is the
chairman of Long Island United Way, a Board member of
the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, and a board member
of the Alumni Association of St John's Law School. Mr.
Wild has been included in Super Lawyers for five
years, as well as being listed in The Best Lawyers in
America for 12 years, and Chambers and Partners
as America’s leading business lawyer in “Health Care”
for the past several years. He was also named among the
Top 100 New York Super Lawyers for 2011.
Andrew E. Blustein,
partner/director and chair of the Health Care
Information and Technology and Insurance Regulatory
Practice Groups, is also co-chair of the HIPAA
Compliance Group and a member of the Health Care,
Business, and Compliance and White Collar Defense
Practice Groups. His practice includes the
representation of hospitals, physicians, clinics and
other healthcare industry-related clients (both for
profit and not-for-profit). He also assists insurance
companies and other clients in developing provider
networks and in addressing various regulatory issues.
Mr. Blustein has been listed in Super Lawyers for
two years.
Roy W. Breitenbach,
partner/director and co-chair of the Litigation &
Arbitration Group, is also a member of the Appellate
Litigation, Environmental, and Personal Service and
Estate Planning Practice Groups. His practice focuses on
representing health care providers, business entities
and individuals involved in antitrust or other disputes,
“business divorces,” complex commercial and real estate
disputes, healthcare reimbursement disputes and will
contests. Mr. Breitenbach has extensive commercial trial
and arbitration experience and has tried and arbitrated
numerous cases involving antitrust, restrictive
covenant, exclusive contract, business dissolution,
breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, real
estate, and more.
Judith A. Eisen,
partner/director and chair of the Finance and Real
Estate Practice Group, co-chair of the HIPAA Compliance
Practice Group and a member of the Health Care,
Business, Compliance and White Collar Defense and
Environmental Practice Groups advises clients on a
variety of business, regulatory and transactional
matters. Ms. Eisen’s practice focuses on the
representation of hospitals, physicians, other health
care providers, and other healthcare related clients
with emphasis on regulatory, transaction, compliance,
general corporate, finance, employment, disciplinary,
patient care, and other related matters. Ms. Eisen has
been featured in Super Lawyers for two years.
Michael J. Keane,
partner/director and co-chair of the Litigation &
Arbitration Group, is also a member of the Appellate
Litigation, Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy and
Health Care Information Technology Practice Groups. Mr.
Keane handles clients’ pre-dispute, litigation and
alternate dispute resolution needs. His practice
includes a variety of commercial matters (corporate
disputes, antitrust cases, construction matters, civil
rights cases, maritime actions, and more), as well as a
large volume of healthcare industry disputes. Mr. Keane
has been featured in Super Lawyers for three
years.
Doris L. Martin,
partner, is chair of the Personal Services and Estate
Planning and Tax Practice Groups. She is also co-chair
of the Discharge Planning, Patient Rights and Elder Law
Practice Group and a member of the Business and Finance
and Real Estate Practice Groups. She advises clients on
all aspects of estate planning, administration, and
litigation, including wills, all forms of trusts, elder
law, charitable giving, insurance, business succession
planning, limited partnerships and liability companies,
and retirement plans. Her practice also includes the
formation, qualification, and administration of
tax-exempt entities.
Fredrick I. Miller,
partner/director and chair of the Health Care Practice
Group, is also a member of the Business, Compliance and
White Collar Defense, Insurance Regulatory and Tax
Practice Groups. Mr. Miller’s practice focuses on 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 has also been included in Super Lawyers
for four years and has also been listed in The Best
Lawyers in America for three years.
Burton S. Weston,
partner/director and chair of the Corporate
Reorganization & Bankruptcy Practice Group and member of
the Business and the Finance and Real Estate Practice
Groups, represents debtors, creditors and creditor
constituencies in all aspects of the Chapter 11 process.
As a member of the Business Practice Group, he also
advises clients on a broad array of corporate and
transactional matters. Mr. Weston has been listed in
Super Lawyers for two years.
2011 New York Rising
Stars
Jacqueline H. Finnegan,
senior attorney, is a member of the Health Care and the
Compliance and White Collar Defense Practice Groups. She
advises hospitals, physicians and other health care
providers on a wide range of regulatory and compliance
matters. Her practice focuses primarily on health care
fraud and abuse issues, including representing providers
in government audits and investigations, advising
providers on reimbursement matters, and developing
corporate compliance programs for providers.
Lauren M. Levine,
senior attorney and a member of the Litigation &
Arbitration Practice Group, represents clients in a wide
variety of commercial and business disputes through all
phases of litigation. Her practice also focuses on
employment law, defending clients against various types
of employment claims, including discrimination,
harassment, retaliation, wage claims, breach of
employment contract and defamation. Ms. Levine also has
experience in representing hospitals in medical staff
credentialing and peer review matters.
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Founded in 1980, Garfunkel
Wild, P.C. (GW) 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 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, EPA/environmental
issues, 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.
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