Michael Cassidy and Tucker Lawyers Named as 2007 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
Cassidy Named to the List of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers
PITTSBURGH, PA - The law firm Tucker Arensberg, PC is proud to announce that Michael A. Cassidy has been named to the list of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for 2007 by Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine. Selection for the honor is determined through the independent research of Law & Politics magazine. Over 36,000 Pennsylvania attorneys were contacted as part of a peer selection process. According to Law & Politics, the organization which publishes Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine, only five percent of Pennsylvania attorneys are included in the "Super Lawyers" directory.
"We believe that our clients would give us high marks for our service and expertise, said Gary P. Hunt, the Firm's Managing Shareholder. "For Mike to earn the respect and recognition of other professionals is very gratifying."
Mike was named a Super Lawyer in the Health Care Category. Mike is a shareholder and Chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group. Mike's practice focuses on the area of health care. He has extensive experience in third party reimbursement, managed care and physician contracts, fraud and abuse, medical staff and credentialing issues, regulatory compliance and tax-exempt organization issues. Mike received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Tucker Arensberg is a 60-attorney law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh with an office in Harrisburg. The firm concentrates in general business law practice, banking, insolvency and creditors' rights, estates and trusts, health care, litigation, technology and intellectual property, environmental, labor and employment, real estate, workers' compensation and school and municipal law. For more information on the firm, please visit www.tuckerlaw.com.
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Michael A. Cassidy
Mr. Cassidy, a shareholder in the firm's Business and Finance Group and chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group, focuses his practice on the fundamental business transactions relating to the formation and governance of healthcare entities, including PCs, LLCs, non-profit corporations, partnerships, and integrated delivery systems. Mike has extensive experience in third party reimbursement, managed care contracting, fraud and abuse, medical staff and credentialing issues, corporate compliance, and tax exempt organization issues. Mike's healthcare experience also includes HIPAA privacy and transaction issues.
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Richard W. Cramer
Mr. Cramer is a shareholder in the firm's Business and Finance Department. His practice is concentrated in the tax, business and health care areas where he represents individuals and business clients with respect to business, tax, health care, and financing matters, including selecting the appropriate form of business entity, buy-sell agreements, business acquisitions and dispositions, buying and selling physician practices, business succession, and the admission and withdrawal of business partners. He also is counsel to several tax-exempt organizations, including long term care facilities, with respect to tax exemption, unrelated business income tax and private foundation/public charity
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J. Kent Culley
Mr. Culley, a shareholder in the firm's Business and Finance Department, focuses his practice in the area of corporate law, primarily in the health care field, representing health care providers, hospitals, closely held corporations and not-for-profit corporations including health care trade associations and foundations. Kent also assists in government relations issues and lobby activities on behalf of clients. Kent is a member of the firm's Health Care and Government Relations Practice Groups.
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William T. Harvey
Mr. Harvey, a shareholder in the firm's Business and Finance Department, has focused his practice for the past 20 years on business law. Much of Bill's practice focuses on advising clients in the healthcare industry. He advises business owners on planning matters, including business startups and corporate mergers and acquisitions, and counsels private and public companies on federal and state securities regulation, including private and public offerings of debt and equity securities.
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Michelle L. Kopnski
Ms. Kopnski, an attorney in the firm's Business and Finance Group, concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate transactions, federal, state and local taxation and non-profit and tax-exempt entities. She counsels many clients in the healthcare industry on taxation matters.
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Joni L. Landy
Ms. Landy is a shareholder in the firm's Employee Benefits Practice Group. Her practice focuses exclusively on employer-sponsored group health benefit plans as well as other employment-related welfare plans and cafeteria (Section 125) plans.
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Scott R. Leah
Mr. Leah is an attorney in the firm's Litigation Department and a member of the Health Care Practice Group. His practice consists of general civil litigation with an emphasis on commercial and employment litigation. He regularly represents and advises both employers and employees in a broad range of employment issues; including employment contracts, employee handbooks, restrictive covenants, gender, race, and age discrimination, unemployment compensation, family and medical leave, overtime regulations, and the ADA. Scott regularly counsels many clients in the healthcare industry on employment matters.
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Charles J. Vater
Mr. Vater concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and business planning. He is Chair of the firm's Estates and Trusts Practice Group. He represents a number of closely-held and family-owned businesses and professional corporations, with a focus on business succession planning. He advises the firm's business and health care clients on techniques and strategies for wealth accumulation and transfer. As part of his practice, Chuck also represents individuals in their admission as partners or shareholders in closely-held business. This representation includes the negotiation of preincorporation and shareholder contracts as well as buy/sell, employment
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Tucker Arensberg, P.C.
Tucker Arensberg, P.C., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based law firm, has served local, regional and national clients for over a century. The firm's entrepreneurial spirit encourages attorneys to help their clients develop and maintain growth and success by using creative problem solving, acute business thinking and an awareness of developing opportunities within their industries.
The firm works closely with its clients to develop strategies and solutions which address the dual client goals of aggressive representation of its interests and control of legal fees and costs.
The firm is divided into three departments: Business and Finance, Insolvency & Creditors' Rights and Litigation.
Tucker Arensberg, P.C. represents various businesses and financial institutions in all types of matters including litigation. The firm also provides legal advice and counsel to public agencies and municipalities. Our attorneys assist public sector clients in the interpretation and implementation of Pennsylvania statues, codes and regulations, and to provide practical and sound advice to resolving problems inherent in the public sector. Our Harrisburg office is strategically located in the state capital to assist with all of our clients' governmental and administrative needs.
Another important area of the firm's focus is in providing advice to individuals in estate planning and administration, family matters and employment matters. In doing so, the firm's attorneys work hard to provide the quality service expected by our clients, at a reasonable cost.
The firm also offers clients a satellite location for doing business that may be more convenient to their needs. It is located near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.
Tucker Arensberg, P.C. consists of 70 attorneys and 20 paralegals with a wide variety of experience in solving client problems and assisting clients in developing opportunities.