(September 5, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green Attorney Katherine M. Hanna of Bedford, a shareholder with the firm, has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White, a national research firm. Hanna is one of 23 SPB+G attorneys to be honored for their outstanding work and distinguished reputations. Hanna was named to the list for her health care practice. Nearly half of the firm's 49 attorneys in New Hampshire made the 2007 list.
During the past 25 years, Hanna has represented more than half of the state's hospitals in several capacities, including as general and special counsel. She advises hospitals on licensure and regulatory matters; medical staff and patient care issues; physician recruitment and contracting; compliance with HIPAA, EMTALA, Stark and fraud and abuse (anti-kickback) laws; employment issues; and insurance coverage questions. She also serves as counsel to nursing homes, physician practices, and individual physicians and nurse practitioners. Hanna joined Sheehan Phinney in 1993, and served for many years as the Chair of its Healthcare Practice Group. Before joining the firm, she co-founded Castaldo Hanna & Malmberg, a Concord law firm comprised of several attorneys whose primary focus was health care.
Hanna is a 1975 graduate from mount Holyoke College and graduated from Boston College Law School in 1979.
Of the 23 attorneys named to the list, 22 are shareholders with the firm (with one being "of counsel"), eight are on the list for the first time, seven have been on the list at least 10 years, and three have been on the list for at least 20 years.
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definite guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 16,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."
Sheehan Phinney is a regional business law firm with offices in Boston, MA, Manchester, Concord and Lebanon, NH. The firm provides a broad range of sophisticated legal services to businesses and institutions in traditional and emerging areas of the law. Its diverse client base includes local and regional organizations, as well as national and international businesses with interests in the Northeast.
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