Our Practice

Our firm offers a supportive, results-oriented approach to clinicians and organizations involved in complementary and alternative medical therapies, and seeking to integrate these therapies into conventional medical settings. We strive to facilitate approaches to integrative and energy medicine that are both clinically sound and legally prudent.

Our legal team has years of expertise in complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine. Our holistic mindset aims to serve clients, whether in the health care industry or in general business, strategic planning, and operations.

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Representative Clients

Please see our list of selected recent clients.   Our legal team typically serves:

• MDs, RNs, PTs, OTs, other allied health professionals
• DCs, LAcs, LMTs, NDs, and other complementary care providers
• Dietary supplement manufacturers
• Medical centers and other educational institutions
• Health plans designing CAM benefit packages
• HMOs, PPOs, MCOs, other insurance organizations
• Medical spas
• Integrative medicine clinics
• Membership organizations and associations
• Nursing homes, home health, hospices, labs
• Policy and consumer advocacy groups
• Patients and their families
• Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

The breadth of our practice is suggested by the range of some of the clients and projects we have represented and currently represent: • One of the largest integrative clinical care facilities implementing comprehensive clinical care programs, redesigning billing and coding strategies, and planning strategic expansion into other geographic markets. • An executive funding, designing, and planning a large, privately-run, integrative clinical care facility. • One of the premier manfacturers of Asian herbal products with sales to licensed acupuncturists and practitioners of traditional oriental medicine. • A multi-site, massage therapy educational institution initiating a local, regional, and national strategy to develop government relations, legislation, and policy within the industry. • A physician designing and implementing a Web-based, e-commerce site for information about herbal care and dietary supplements within his or her field of specialty. • A chiropractor negotiating an employment contract with a major East Coast hospital. • A California-based, health maintenance organization (HMO) in contractual matters and proposed expansion to the Southwest. • A patient seeking to negotiate compensation in a dental malpractice case. • A trading company, distributing police evidence collection vehicles and forensic equipment to the China market. • A dentist defending against disciplinary charges by a professional board for inclusion of integrative and energy medicine. • A spa consulting firm creating business models for hospitals interested in building medical spas in collaboration with a larger health care organization's administrative structure. • An eye surgeon running a LASIK vision center negotiating sale of intellectual property rights and royalties for development and commercialization of eye-care products.

We are also involved in cutting-edge research in health law and policy focusing on integrative and energy medicine. Our books and articles offer the latest thinking on these frontier topics.