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Three Garfunkel
Wild, P.C. Attorneys
Listed in 2011 New Jersey Super Lawyers
Great Neck, NY, April 6,
2011. Garfunkel Wild, P.C. (GW) is pleased to announce
that three GW attorneys have been selected for inclusion
in the 2011 New Jersey Super Lawyers list. Included are
GW Partner/Director Jeffrey S. Brown who is featured
under “Healthcare” and Associate Kimberly Kempton-Serra
and Senior Attorney Rebecca A. Levy who are each
featured under “Rising Stars.” Only five percent of the
lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.
Jeffrey S. Brown,
Partner/Director of the firm’s Hackensack, NJ, office
and member of the Health Care, HIPAA Compliance,
Insurance Regulatory and Litigation & Arbitration
Practice Groups, specializes in healthcare and hospital
law. He represents various hospitals, long-term care
facilities, physicians’ practices and other health
care-related clients. Mr. Brown was selected as
Leadership Fellow for the State of New Jersey in which
capacity he analyzed the issue of health care in terms
of its statewide significance. A frequent speaker on
health care issues, he has lectured at Seton Hall
University School of Law (where he serves on the
Advisory Board of the Health Law & Policy Program), as
well as before the New Jersey Association of Health Care
Facilities, Bergen County Medical Society, Bergen County
Bar Association, and more.
Kimberly Kempton-Serra, a GW
Associate and member of the Business and Health Care
Practice Groups, advises clients on a host of health
care and general commercial matters. These include
business structuring, federal and state law regulatory
compliance, tax issues, mergers, sales and acquisitions
of various health care entities, technology contracts
and employment and equity ownership agreements for
practices and health care facilities. She is an Adjunct
Professor in the MSJ Program at Seton Hall University
School of Law, where she teaches Health Law.
Rebecca A. Levy, a Senior
Attorney and member of the Compliance and White Collar
Defense and Health Care Practice Groups, represents
hospitals and physicians with an emphasis on regulatory
compliance, drafting and negotiating contractual
arrangements, and responding to various patient care
issues. She also provides regular counseling to
physicians who are establishing their own medical
practices, joining existing medical practices or seeking
to expand their current medical practices. Ms. Levy
advises various health care practitioners on structuring
arrangements to ensure compliance with Federal Stark and
Anti-Kickback laws, as well as the New Jersey “Codey”
Law. She was honored as a New Jersey Super Lawyers
Rising Star in 2010.
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. Part of the Thomson Reuters,
Legal, Business of Law group, Super Lawyers selects
attorneys using a rigorous, multiphase process. Peer
nominations and evaluations are combined with third
party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12
indicators of peer recognition and professional
achievement. Selections are made on an annual,
state-by-state basis. Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars
recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in a
particular state, who are 40 years old or younger or who
have been practicing for 10 years or less. Super Lawyers
can be found online at www.superlawyers.com, where
lawyers can be searched by practice area and location.
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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