Sam Coppersmith broke down legal challenges facing public charities in a webinar for the National Business Institute (NBI). Sam and two other nonprofit law experts, Jennifer Urban of Legal for Good PLLC in St. Louis Park, MN, and Michelle Huhnke of Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer, LLP in Chicago, offered advice on common issues facing public charities, focused on solutions for attorneys serving tax-exempt organizations. They covered state restrictions, tips for handling IRS reviews, and other tax paperwork, how to draft bylaws and a mission statement, how to correctly handle incoming contributions, tips for interacting with for-profit organizations, best practices in nonprofit governance, and more. Sam is a regular speaker for NBI, sharing his expertise on numerous topics related to nonprofit organizations. He has more than three...

Karen Owens shared her expertise in health care law and regulations, specifically those affecting LGBTQ patients, in a webinar for the American College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE) LGBT Forum. Karen and her co-presenter, Trent Stechschulte of Equitas Health, broke down federal and state laws affecting LGBTQ health care, how to deal with issues in adapting electronic health records for transgender patients, and employment-specific issues relevant to LGBTQ people. Karen’s health care practice focuses on legal issues including clinical compliance, which has led her to work with health care systems in LGBTQ health care compliance efforts under federal regulations and state laws. She is also experienced in handling issues related to quality management, medical staff credentialing and peer review, medical staff structures, bylaws and confidentiality, as well as...

Partner Kristen Rosati did a talk on the protection of genomic information at Arizona State University’s Workshop on Patents and Data Sharing/Access for Molecular Diagnostics. She discussed the policy tension between individual rights to control genomic information versus support of research that relies on genomic information, and the need for researchers to get involved in the development of policy at the national and state levels. She also discussed the impact of human subject protection regulations for federally-funded research, HIPAA, and state health information confidentiality laws on the conduct of research involving genetic information. Kristen is considered one of the nation’s leading “Big Data” and HIPAA compliance attorneys. She also has deep experience in data breaches, health information exchange, data sharing for research and clinical integration initiatives, clinical research compliance, clinical trials contracting, and biobanking and genomic privacy. Kristen...

Kristen Rosati shared her expertise on data privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a presentation at the Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCA) Regional Compliance Conference in Nashville, TN. Kristen explained how the GDPR will impact health care organizations in the US. The GDPR is a law implemented in the European Union which is reshaping how organizations in health care and other industries handle personal data, and which has extra-territorial impact on some health care organizations in the US. The GDPR is getting widespread attention after an EU data protection authority imposed a fine of over $50 million on Google for its data practices. Kristen is considered one of the nation’s leading “Big Data” and HIPAA compliance attorneys. She also has deep experience in data breaches, health information exchange, data sharing for research and clinical integration...