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| | Address | | 1501 M Street, N.W., Seventh Floor | | Washington, District of Columbia 20005 | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 202-466-6550 | | Fax: 202-785-1756 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.ppsv.com | | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C. practices in the following areas of law:
Health Care and Hospital Law, Education Law, Antitrust, Taxation and Corporate Law, Litigation, Legislative Law. | | Year Established: 1983 | Firm Profile:
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C., provides sophisticated and specialized legal services to a national base of clients in the health and education sectors of the American economy. The firm's health care clients include hospitals, multihospital systems, physician groups, home health agencies, long term care institutions, provider associations, and the newer, evolving forms of health care delivery. The firm's higher education clients include public and private, profit and non-profit, traditional and web-based institutions of higher education, as well as investors in and providers to education. The firm provides legislative services, federal and state regulatory advice, advocacy before federal and state regulatory agencies, transactional representation, including mergers and acquisitions of health care and educational institutions, defense of administrative, civil, criminal and Congressional investigations, and representation in administrative and judicial litigation. | | Firm Size: 34 | | PRINCIPALS | | Mark R. Fitzgerald (Principal) born Hartford, Connecticut, November 10, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, District of Columbia; 1983, Maryland. Education: Fairfield University (B.A., 1979); Catholic University of America (J.D., 1982). Member, Editorial Board, Catholic University Law Review, 1981-1982. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Law; Health Care Fraud; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Corporate Law; Health Care Contracts; Government Health Care Contracts; Health Care Regulation. Email: Mark R. Fitzgerald | | Stanley A. Freeman (Principal) born Knoxville, Tennessee, October 15, 1956; admitted to bar, 1982, District of Columbia; 1983, Maryland and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1985, Virginia. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., with distinction, 1978); Georgetown University (J.D., 1982). Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State and American (Member, Administrative Law Section) Bar Associations; Virginia State Bar. Practice Areas: Education Law; Litigation; Administrative Law. Email: Stanley A. Freeman | | Larry S. Gondelman (Principal) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; admitted to bar, 1977, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1978, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1994, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Michigan and Brandeis University (B.A., 1974); Georgetown University (J.D., 1977). Member of Staff, Georgetown Law Journal, 1975-1976. Author: "False Claims Against the Government: Defense Tactics in a False Claims Prosecution," 17 American Criminal Law Review 399, Winter 1980; "D.C. Vice - The Unconstitutionality of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Drug Offenses," 10 District Lawyer 32, March/April, 1986; "What the SEC Won't Tell You About Cease-and-Desist Orders," 28 Securities Regulation Law Journal 163, Fall 2000. Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, American University, 1984-1988. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Litigation. Email: Larry S. Gondelman | | Sherry Mastrostefano Gray (Principal) born Providence, Rhode Island; admitted to bar, 1990, Massachusetts; 1991, District of Columbia. Education: Boston University (B.A., cum laude, 1987); George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1990). Member, George Washington University Law Review. Judicial Clerkship with Chief Judge James C. Turk of the Western District of Virginia, 1990-1991. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; National Association of College and University Attorneys. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Education Law; Administrative Law. Email: Sherry Mastrostefano Gray | | Joel M. Hamme (Principal) born York, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1949; admitted to bar, 1973, Pennsylvania; 1975, District of Columbia. Education: Dickinson College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1970); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1973). Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Hon. Alexander F. Barbieri, Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, 1973-1974. Law Clerk to Hon. John Biggs, Jr., Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1974-1975. Associate Professorial Lecturer in Law, Health Care Delivery Systems, The National Law Center, George Washington University, 1985-1990. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Litigation. Email: Joel M. Hamme | | Thomas Hylden (Principal) born St. Cloud, Minnesota, June 27, 1946; admitted to bar, 1976, District of Columbia; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Rice University (B.A., 1969; M.E.E., 1969); George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1976). Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Sections of: Administrative Law; Litigation; Criminal Law). Practice Areas: Education Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Administrative Law; Litigation. Email: Thomas Hylden | | James M. Jorling (Principal) born Lawton, Oklahoma, November 21, 1958; admitted to bar, 1984, Ohio and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1994, District of Columbia. Education: Miami University (A.B., 1981); University of Cincinnati (J.D., 1984). Co-Authored: "A World That Won't Stand Still: Enterprise Liability by Private Contract," 1994 DePaul Law Review 1007 (Summer, 1994); "Law and Disorder-Critical Legal Issues in Disease Management," Disease Manage Health Outcomes 1999 December, 6(6); "Health Information Privacy - The Preemption Standard," Topics in Health Information Management, HIPAA Privacy, Part I (Volume 22, Number 3 February 2002); "Disease and Care Management: Impact of Privacy Rule," Topics in Health Information Management, HIPAA Privacy, Part II (Volume 22, Number 4 May 2002). Member: American Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Law; Health Care Corporate Law; Managed Care; Disease Management; Corporate Compliance; Privacy; Clinical Trials. Email: James M. Jorling | | John D. Kemp (Principal) born Waterloo, Iowa, October 10, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Kansas; 2002, District of Columbia. Education: Georgetown University (A.B., 1971); Washburn University (J.D., 1974; LL.D., with Honors, 2003). Inductee, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, 1991. Selected Alumni Fellow, Washburn School of Law, 1997. Practice Areas: Health Care; Rehabilitation; Disabilities; Tax Exempt Organizations. Email: John D. Kemp | | Diane S. Millman (Principal) born March 27, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, District of Columbia; 1982, Massachusetts. Education: Franklin & Marshall College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1977); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1980). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar; National Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Law. Email: Diane S. Millman | | Mary Susan Philp (Principal) born Mt. Vernon, Illinois, December 12, 1954; admitted to bar, 1979, District of Columbia; 1984, California; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: MacMurray College (B.S., summa cum laude, 1976); Duke University (J.D., 1979). Member, Editorial Board, Duke Law Journal, 1978-1979. Co-Author: "Hospitals Caught in the Antitrust Net: An Overview," 24 Duquesne Law Review 489, 1985. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of California; American Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Hospital Law; Antitrust Law. Email: Mary Susan Philp | | Robert M. Portman (Principal) born Chicago, Illinois, February 28, 1959; admitted to bar, 1986, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1991, U.S. Supreme Court; 1995, District of Columbia; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Education: Northwestern University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1980), Phi Beta Kappa; Harvard University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1985); Harvard Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P., 1985). Law Clerk, Judge Mark Wolf, U.S. District Court, Massachusetts, 1985-1986. Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, Jan.-Oct. 1993. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the American Workplace, U.S. Department of Labor, 1993-1995. Member: District of Columbia Bar (Member, Health Law Section; Immediate Past Chair, Council on Sections); American Bar Association (Member, Health Law Section); American Health Lawyers Association; American Society of Medical Association Counsel; American Society of Association Executives (Legal Section Council). Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Litigation; Association Law; Antitrust; Legislative and Regulatory. Email: Robert M. Portman | | Galen D. Powers (Principal) born Pleasant Lake, Indiana, September 16, 1936; admitted to bar, 1962, Michigan; 1981, District of Columbia; 1985, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Michigan (A.B., 1959; LL.B., 1962). Member and President, National Health Lawyers Association, 1990-1991. Assistant General Counsel for Health Care Financing, Health, Education and Welfare, 1977-1979. Member: State Bar of Michigan; The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association; American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Hospital Law; Corporate Law; Joint Ventures Law. Email: Galen D. Powers | | James C. Pyles (Principal) born Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December 27, 1945; admitted to bar, 1972, Tennessee; 1975, Maryland; 1985, District of Columbia. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1968); University of Tennessee (LL.B., 1972). Litigation Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services, 1972-1979. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State, Tennessee, Federal and American Bar Associations; American Health Lawyers Association; American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Hospital Law; Litigation; Administrative Law. Email: James C. Pyles | | Joel M. Rudnick (Principal) born Washington, District of Columbia, March 30, 1966; admitted to bar, 1991, Maryland; 1994, District of Columbia. Education: New York University (B.A., 1988); Georgetown University (J.D., 1991). Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Education Law; Administrative Law; Litigation. Email: Joel M. Rudnick | | Robert J. Saner, II (Principal) born Springfield, Illinois, May 3, 1947; admitted to bar, 1973, District of Columbia; 1979, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. Education: Princeton University (A.B., cum laude, 1969); Harvard University (J.D., 1972). Assistant to the Administrator; Social and Rehabilitation Service Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1972-1973; Office of Health, Cost of Living Council, 1973-1974. Member, Education Appeal Board, U.S. Department of Education, 1976-1984. Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Environmental Law. Email: Robert J. Saner, II | | Robert "Bobby" Silverstein (Principal) born Bronx, New York, February 19, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Virginia; 1977, District of Columbia; 1997, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S., cum laude, 1971); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1974). Project Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Associate Professor, The George Washington University Medical School. Director, Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy. Recipient of more than 10 national awards, including the Distinguished Services Award of the President of the United States. Member: Virginia State Bar; The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Disabilities; Health Care; Education Law; Civil Rights; Rehabilitation. Email: Robert "Bobby" Silverstein | | Ronald N. Sutter (Principal) born Carmel, California, January 1, 1947; admitted to bar, 1975, California; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, District of Columbia. Education: University of Santa Clara (B.A., 1968); Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1974); New York University (LL.M., in Taxation, 1980). Member: The District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of California. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Hospital Law; Litigation; Administrative Law. Email: Ronald N. Sutter | | Peter W. Thomas (Principal) born Northport, New York, January 12, 1964; admitted to bar, 1990, New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. Education: Boston College (B.A., 1986); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1989). Board of Trustees, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. Member, President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. Member, National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, DHHS. Advisory Board Member, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health. Practice Areas: Health Care Law and Legislation; Disability and Rehabilitation. Email: Peter W. Thomas | | Richard E. Verville (Principal) born Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 21, 1939; admitted to bar, 1965, Massachusetts; 1973, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. Education: Williams College (B.A., 1961); Columbia University (LL.B., 1964). Special Assistant to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1971-1973. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Boston and American (Chairperson, Committee on Health and Human Services, 1978-1980) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Health Care Law; Legislative Law. Email: Richard E. Verville | | William H. von Oehsen (Principal) born Charlottesville, Virginia, October 18, 1958; admitted to bar, 1988, Pennsylvania; 1990, District of Columbia. Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1981); Harvard University (M.T.S., 1984); Georgetown University (J.D., 1988). Annual Scholar, Food and Drug Law Institute, 1987-1988. Member: District of Columbia Bar; Food and Drug Law Institute; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Drug Pricing; Food and Drug Law; Health Care; Managed Care. Email: William H. von Oehsen | | Barbara Straub Williams (Principal) born Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1958; admitted to bar, 1985, Pennsylvania; 1986, District of Columbia. Education: Georgetown University (B.A., cum laude, 1980; J.D., 1985). Editor, Law & Policy in International Business, 1985. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Health Care Law. Email: Barbara Straub Williams | | OF COUNSEL | | Rebecca L. Burke (Of Counsel) born Princeton, New Jersey, December 1, 1953; admitted to bar, 1982, District of Columbia; 1983, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. Education: Brown University (B.A., 1975); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Member, American Criminal Law Review, 1980-1982. Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Languages: French, Italian. Practice Areas: Health Care Law. Email: Rebecca L. Burke | | D. Benson Tesdahl (Of Counsel) born Fayetteville, North Carolina, June 30, 1952; admitted to bar, 1984, Oregon; 1985, Washington; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court; 1990, District of Columbia. Education: U.S. Military Academy (B.S., 1977); University of Southern California (M.S., 1981); University of Oregon (J.D., 1984); Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in Taxation, with distinction, 1992). Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, Oregon Law Review, 1983-1984. Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1995-2000. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Washington State, Oregon and American Bar Associations; American Health Lawyers Association. [Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, JAGC, U.S. Army Reserve]. Practice Areas: Tax Exempt Organizations; Health Care Law; Corporate Law; Contract Law. Email: D. Benson Tesdahl | | ASSOCIATES | | Kimberly Bingaman (Associate) born Edina, Minnesota; admitted to bar, 2005, Maryland and District of Columbia. Education: University of Minnesota (B.A., 1997); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2004). Member: Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Education Law. Email: Kimberly Bingaman | | Stephanie Cason (Associate) born Portland, Oregon, 1980; admitted to bar, 2007, Oregon. (Not admitted in District of Columbia). Education: Reed College (B.A., 2003); University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 2007). Practice Areas: Health Care; Education Law. | | Ronald S. Connelly (Associate) born Seattle, Washington; admitted to bar, 2003, Maryland; 2004, District of Columbia. Education: University of Washington (B.A., cum laude, 1991); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 2003). Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Health Care(75%); Education Law(25%). Email: Ronald S. Connelly | | Elisabeth Doyle (Associate) admitted to bar, 1998, New Jersey; 2008, District of Columbia. Education: State University of New York at Albany (B.A., magna cum laude, with special honors, 1987); Temple University School of Law (J.D., 1997). Practice Areas: Health Law; Education Law. Email: Elisabeth Doyle | | Jennifer Hitchon (Associate) born Iowa City, Iowa, December 28, 1979; admitted to bar, 2006, Illinois; 2007, District of Columbia. Education: Washington University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2002); University of Iowa (J.D., M.H.A., 2006). Practice Areas: Health Law. Email: Jennifer Hitchon | | Christina A. Hughes (Associate) born Springfield, Ohio; admitted to bar, 2006, Ohio; 2007, District of Columbia. Education: John Carroll University (B.A., magna cum laude with honors, 2002); George Washington University (J.D., 2006; M.P.H., 2006). Member: The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Health Care(100%). Email: Christina A. Hughes | | Erika R. Janes (Associate) born Northampton, Massachusetts, May 31, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Virginia; 2005, District of Columbia. Education: Harvard University (B.A., 2000); George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2004). Member, George Washington University Law Review. Member: Virginia State Bar. Practice Areas: Education Law. Email: Erika R. Janes | | Alice M. Maginnis (Associate) born Fairfax, Virginia, February 16, 1976; admitted to bar, 2001, Virginia; 2002, District of Columbia. Education: Northwestern University (B.A., 1997); University of Virginia (J.D., 2001). Practice Areas: Education Law; Administrative Law. Email: Alice M. Maginnis | | Hilton Marcus (Associate) admitted to bar, 2005, New York; 2007, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1998); George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2004); The Harvard School of Public Health (M.P.H., 2005). Practice Areas: Health Law. Email: Hilton Marcus | | Kathleen A. Romanow (Associate) admitted to bar, 2002, Massachusetts; 2003, New York; 2004, Hawaii; 2006, District of Columbia. Education: State University of New York at Geneseo (B.S., cum laude, 1995; M.A., 1996); Boston University School of Law (J.D., with honors, 2002). Practice Areas: Health Care. Email: Kathleen A. Romanow | | Mary B. ("Molly") Scott (Associate) born Louisville, Kentucky, December 9, 1978; admitted to bar, 2006, Pennsylvania; 2008, District of Columbia. Education: Williams College (B.A., 2000); University of Virginia (J.D., 2006). Practice Areas: Education Law. Email: Mary B. ("Molly") Scott | | Iris Wong (Associate) born Smithtown, New York, 1980; admitted to bar, 2005, Maryland; 2007, District of Columbia. Education: University of Virginia (B.S., 2002; J.D., 2005). Practice Areas: Education Law(100%). Email: Iris Wong |
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