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Colleen Powers is a health care transactions attorney who provides strategic counsel to some of the nation’s largest health systems, hospitals and physician groups. In the last several years, Colleen has served as lead counsel for multiple high-profile hospital acquisitions, divestitures and mergers. She’s also played a key role in the advancement of alignment... READ MORE

Jeffrey Peek advises health care organizations and related entities on a broad range of transactional, tax and organizational matters. His practice includes general business transactions, real estate and construction, and tax planning, with a particular focus on tax-exempt organizations, foundations and support organizations. Jeff helps clients structure and execute deals, maintain compliance and align... READ MORE

Todd Nova, a Partner in the Firm, focuses on health law issues for health care providers across the country including integrated health care systems, pharmacies (retail, specialty and institutional), hospitals, group purchasing organizations and physician group practices. As part of an emphasis that includes regulatory, reimbursement, corporate and other compliance issues, Todd regularly advises... READ MORE

Based in the firm’s Milwaukee office, Heather Mogden represents health care providers in a wide range of litigation matters in state and federal courts and administrative proceedings. Heather’s practice focuses on commercial health care litigation, False Claims Act defense and provider reimbursement appeals. Heather’s experience also involves managing large eDiscovery review processes, including forensic... READ MORE

Katie Miller focuses her practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, physician transactions and intellectual property. Katie has extensive experience advising clients, which include hospitals, health systems, physician groups, behavioral health, physical therapy and home health organizations, on matters relating to health care transactions from strategic planning to due diligence and negotiations to... READ MORE

Dan Miller’s practice focuses on the areas of health law reimbursement, compliance and litigation issues with a particular emphasis on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement appeals. A member of the Health Law and Litigation sections of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Wisconsin, Dan is a member of the American Health Law Association... READ MORE

Melissa Markey, CISSP, co-leads the Hall Render Life Sciences team and focuses her practice on FDA regulatory compliance, research misconduct, human subject research and technology law, including data privacy and security, medical device security, mobile medical applications and consumer-facing health care, electronic health records and data rights management, as well as emergency legal preparedness,... READ MORE

Robert W. Markette, Jr., CHC, focuses his practice on representing home health, hospice and private duty providers in all aspects of their operations.  With more than 10 years of experience in working with these industries, Robert has developed a reputation for understanding the issues facing home care providers and has assisted clients in a... READ MORE

Lisa Lucido is a shareholder in the firm serving as the Co-Office Managing Partner of Hall Render’s Troy, MI office and Co-Leader of the firm’s managed care service line. She concentrates her practice in the areas of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, managed care, regulatory compliance and telehealth reimbursement. She provides counsel to a wide... READ MORE

Mary Kate Liffrig focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment law, with an emphasis on counseling employers through all areas of the employment relationship. Providing niche health care knowledge and experience, Mary Kate partners with her clients as they navigate their day-to-day employment-related challenges. Mary Kate counsels clients on a wide... READ MORE