Paul is well known for his skills as a complex litigator, as a health care lawyer and as an arbitrator.
As a health care lawyer, Paul has handled litigation, regulatory and transactional, including acquisitions, joint ventures, non-compete litigation, health care arbitration, HIPAA advice and claims, Stark and fraud and abuse, joint ventures, 501(c )(3) matters and issues, EMTALA, CONs, DONs, physician contracting, risk management, licensure and disciplinary, patient care, and medical staff matters. He has experience representing both payor and provider. He also has experience with ACOs, IPAs, and the like. He serves as an arbitrator for both the AHLA and AAA. He is the original author of a treatise on HIPAA.
As a complex commercial litigator, Paul has litigated extensively in a variety of state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Examples of matters he has handled include: representing a physician in connection with the break-up of a physician practice; representing a minority shareholder in connection with oppression by majority holder; representing a corporation in connection with trademark issues; representing investors in a claim against a hedge fund for misuse of funds; representing an investor in a claim against a money manager; representing a spouse and others in an action by the SEC seeking to reach their assets to satisfy a claim against the spouse's husband; representing joint venture owners for breach of joint venture agreement; representing a corporation in an action by a competitor for antitrust violation; representing children in an action to contest a will; representing CON applicants in administrative appeals; representing a business organization in ERISA preemption litigation; and representing a school district in Title IX litigation.
Paul’s approach to his practice is to seek to understand client goals and to provide advice that will further those goals in a practical and appropriate manner. He is hard working and always looking for inventive ways to address client problems.