Best Law Firms 2025
Hall Render has been recognized in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2025 “Best Law Firms” rankings. According to U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, firms included in the 2025 “Best Law Firms” are recognized for “professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.”
David H. Snow - Lawyer of the Year
David H. Snow was named the Best Lawyers Milwaukee Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2025. David is a trusted advisor to hospitals, health care systems and physician organizations, focusing on corporate and regulatory matters. His experience includes corporate restructuring, joint ventures, tax planning and maintaining tax-exempt status. He also handles health care licensing, government reimbursement, billing, payment matters and corporate compliance.
Charles P. Sukurs - Lawyer of the Year
Charles “Chad” P. Sukurs was named the Best Lawyers Indianapolis Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2025. Chad has dedicated his career to advising clients in health care law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, general business transactions and services, governance, hospital and physician transactions, physician alignment, physician group practices and tax exemption. His experience ranges from hospital M&A, such as representation of hospitals and health systems in acquisitions and divestitures, to physician arrangement matters, including day-to-day representation of physician practices and significant strategic alignment initiatives between hospitals and their physician partners.
Best Law Firms 2024
Hall Render has been recognized in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2024 “Best Law Firms” rankings. According to U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, firms included in the 2024 “Best Law Firms” are recognized for “professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.”
R. Terry Heath - Lawyer of the Year
Terry Heath was named the Best Lawyers Indianapolis Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2024. Terry focuses his practice on business, tax, regulatory and governance issues, while rendering advice and counsel to some of the nation’s largest health systems, including general and specialty hospitals, individual medical practices and health care joint ventures between hospitals and physicians. Terry is a former managing partner of Hall Render and the past head of its Health Transactions Section. He currently serves on the firm’s management and compensation committees.
David H. Snow - Lawyer of the Year
David H. Snow was named the Best Lawyers Milwaukee Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2023. David’s practice focuses on corporate and regulatory work for health care clients including hospitals, health care systems and physician organizations. This work encompasses: corporate structure and reorganizations; joint ventures; tax planning; obtaining and maintaining tax exemption; health care licensing and certification; government reimbursement, billing and payment matters; and corporate compliance.
Charles P. Sukurs - Lawyer of the Year
Charles “Chad” P. Sukurs was named the Best Lawyers Indianapolis Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2023. Chad has dedicated his career to advising clients in health care law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, general business transactions and services, governance, hospital and physician transactions, physician alignment, physician group practices and tax exemption. His experience ranges from hospital M&A, such as representation of hospitals and health systems in acquisitions and divestitures, to physician arrangement matters, including day-to-day representation of physician practices and significant strategic alignment initiatives between hospitals and their physician partners.
Joseph M. Kahn - Lawyer of the Year
Joseph M. Kahn was named the Best Lawyers Raleigh Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2022. Joe Kahn serves as the Office Managing Partner for Hall Render’s Raleigh office. He focuses his practice on advising health systems, physician groups and other health care providers with regard to strategic transactions and affiliations, including mergers and acquisitions, hospital/physician transactions, corporate organization and reorganization matters, joint ventures, governance matters and complex contract negotiations. In conjunction with this advice, he also counsels health care clients with respect to the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute and other applicable regulatory compliance matters implicated by their operations.
Lawrence K. Coon - Lawyer of the Year
Lawrence K. Coon was named the Best Lawyers Milwaukee Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2021. Coon serves as Managing Partner of the firm’s Milwaukee office and counsels health care providers in corporate, business and strategic relationships, including affiliations, joint ventures, contractual arrangements, acquisitions and other growth strategies. He also provides guidance and assistance regarding payor/provider contracting, provider network development and operations, and other relationships between health care providers and the purchasers of health care services.
David H. Snow - Lawyer of the Year
David H. Snow was named the Best Lawyers Milwaukee Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2020. Snow’s practice focuses on corporate and regulatory work for health care clients including hospitals, health care systems and physician organizations. This work encompasses: corporate structure and reorganizations; joint ventures; tax planning; obtaining and maintaining tax exemption; health care licensing and certification; government reimbursement, billing and payment matters; and corporate compliance.
R. Terry Heath - Lawyer of the Year
R. Terry Heath was named the Best Lawyers Indianapolis Health Care “Lawyer of the Year” in 2015 and 2018. Heath, who leads the firm’s business/tax practice, provides advice and counsel regarding business, tax, regulatory and governance issues to some of the nation’s largest health systems and many general and specialty hospitals, individual medical practices and health care joint ventures between hospitals and physicians.
Gregg Wallander - Lawyer of the Year
Gregg M. Wallander was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Indianapolis Health Care “Lawyer of the Year.” Wallander, who leads the firm’s health law practice, counsels clients in numerous aspects of health care law, including hospital and health system initiatives, physician alignment, joint venture and other affiliation arrangements, governance, Fraud and Abuse/Stark analysis, physician/hospital and other provider contracts, corporate compliance, physician recruitment, medical staff and peer review, tax-exemption and Medicare reimbursement.
