Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Barbara Bennett's practice focuses on health care transactions, technology, and strategic business advice, with a concentration on health care technology and bioscience clients along with traditional health care businesses. She also counsels businesses on data protection issues, including compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security rules, consumer protection strategies and intellectual property laws.

Barbara's health care experience includes representation of technology and information services companies, health care providers and payors, investment banks, and management service companies in transactions involving life sciences companies, information technology services businesses, physicians, hospitals and academic medical centers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other managed care entities. She also counsels both early-stage and established technology and biotechnology clients.

Barbara has spoken extensively on health care legal issues and was editor of the 2002 BNA treatise E-Health Business and Transactional Law. She is trained in dispute resolution and served on the approved panel for court-appointed mediators in Tennessee state courts. Barbara was appointed to and served on both the Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson in 1997, Barbara was General Counsel and corporate secretary of an HMO management company, TriPoint Health Group. There she was responsible for the overall management of the internal and external legal and regulatory affairs of the company and its subsidiaries.

Prior to that, from 1986-1995, she was Associate General Counsel of Vanderbilt University, representing the University’s Health Sciences Center for managed care issues and transactions matters, and representing the university overall for intellectual property and technology transfers, cost accounting (including audit and negotiation), and insurance and risk management. She created and implemented policy and strategy, as well as evaluated and structured joint ventures and other business opportunities for the university in health care, technology, and other areas.

Areas of Practice

• Life Sciences
• Business, Finance, and Tax
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Privacy
• Health
• Corporate Governance

Bar Admissions

• Tennessee
• District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee
• U.S. Supreme Court

Past Employment Positions

• HMO management company, TriPoint Health Group, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
• Vanderbilt University, Associate General Counsel

Education

• Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1983
  J.D.
  Honors: Order of the Coif
• Vanderbilt University, 1973
  B.S.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa

Address

555 Thirteenth Street, NorthWest
Washington, DC 20004

Phones

(202) 637-6824

Faxes

(202) 637-5910

Emails

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Websites

http://www.hhlaw.com