Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Bob Leibenluft's practice is devoted entirely to health and antitrust matters, including counseling and litigation regarding antitrust issues in the health, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries.

Upon completing law school, Bob worked as an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s Office of Policy Planning, concentrating on health and antitrust matters. In 1981, he joined Hogan & Hartson and became a partner in the firm in 1989. He practiced health law at Hogan & Hartson until January 1996 when he rejoined the FTC as Assistant Director for Health Care in the FTC's Bureau of Competition. As head of the Health Care Division, Bob supervised a 25-30 person staff engaged in the review of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures involving hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers, as well as conduct in the health care and pharmaceutical industries. He rejoined Hogan & Hartson again in September 1998.

Bob writes and lectures extensively on health law topics. His articles on health care matters have appeared in Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vanderbilt Law Review, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Business and Health, Pharmaceutical Executive, Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, and other books and journals.

Areas of Practice

• Health
• Antitrust, Competition, and Consumer Protection
• Life Sciences

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia, 1980

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The District of Columbia Bar (Member, Health Law Section, Chairman, Program Committee, 1988-1989)
• American Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section, 1983 - Present (Member, Forum Committee on Health Law)
• International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care (Member)
• Federal Bar Association, 1988 - 1989 (Chairman, Health Care Committee)
• National Health Lawyers Association, 1989 - Present (Member, Board of Directors)
• Berkeley Law Foundation (Member)
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (Member)

Past Employment Positions

• Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, Attorney-Advisor, 1981 - 1982

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1980
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Order of the Coif
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1973
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: magna cum laude

Published Works

• Procurement and Distribution of Organs for Transplant, Health Law Handbook, A. Gosfield, Ed., 1991
• Developments in Medicare Reimbursement for Hospital Services, Health Law Handbook, A. Gosfield, Ed., 1989
• Reimbursement for Partial Hospitalization, A Survey and Policy Implications, 145 American Journal Psychiatry 12, December, 1988
• Medicare Coverage for Innovative Drugs, Pharmaceutical Executive, September, 1988
• Planning for Favorable Coverage Determinations for New Medical Technologies, Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, October, 1986
• Antitrust Implications of Medical Technology Assessment (Co-Author), 314 New England Journal of Medicine 1490, June 5, 1986
• Adjusting the Medicare Prospective Payment System to Account for New Medical Technologies (Co-Author), Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, April, 1985
• Antitrust Scrutiny of the Health Professions: Developing a Framework for Assessing Private Restraints (Co-Author), Vanderbilt Law Review, June, 1981

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