Kyle Y. Faget is a Boston-based partner and a health care and life sciences lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Ms. Faget advises investors, academic medical centers, physician practices, and consultants on a range of business, legal, and regulatory issues affecting the telemedicine industry. She helps companies build and refine corporate compliance programs, including advising clients on regulatory and compliance matters involving the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), the False Claims Act (FCA), the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the AdvaMed Code, and the PhRMA Code. She regularly drafts and negotiates agreements required for the development and commercialization of pharmaceutical and medical device products, including licensing agreements, collaboration agreements, clinical trial agreements, and an array of service agreements. Ms. Faget is the co-chair of the Health Care & Life Sciences Sector's Medical Devices Area of Focus and the former co-chair of Foley's Health Care Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, she held in-house positions at pre-commercial and commercial stage companies. Ms. Faget is admitted to practice in the state of Massachusetts.
Ross Hildabrand is a healthcare attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office. He advises clients regarding Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), Stark Law, corporate practice of medicine, and False Claims Act (FCA) compliance. Mr. Hildabrand also assists healthcare organizations with other day-to-day operation, strategic and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable John K. Bush of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in law school, Mr. Hildabrand worked with the Health Care Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Before law school, he was an investment banking analyst. Mr. Hildabrand earned his B.S. and B.B.A. degrees from the University of Kentucky, and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee.
Mario D. Mendoza is a shareholder and attorney with Murphy Desmond Lawyers S.C. in Wisconsin. His law practice focuses on assisting applicants for professional licenses as well as practitioners facing professional licensing complaints. Mr. Mendoza has helped numerous professionals navigate licensing disciplinary and regulatory processes, including: nurses, physicians, counselors, real estate professionals, lawyers, and insurance sales professionals. In addition, he is highly skilled in handling estate and probate litigation, such as will contests and claims of wrongdoing by a beneficiary or a fiduciary. Mr. Mendoza is a member of the firm's Board of Directors, and leader of the firm's Bilingual Legal Services Group. Since 2005, he has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Law School in the Lawyering Skills Program. Mr. Mendoza earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Bridget Pyman is an attorney at Arnett Baker in Tennessee. She earned her J.D. degree from Michigan State University College of Law. While a law student, Ms. Pyman was a judicial clerk to the Hon. William T. Ailor, Knox County Circuit Court, and a graduate student project manager for the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in the Policy and Planning Administration. She worked in the Health Information Technology division of the Administration; her projects primarily involved healthcare data aggregation, data sharing, and data warehousing; and, particularly, designing healthcare data applications supporting health policy development in response to federal legislative initiatives for health and healthcare innovation. Ms. Pyman specializes in healthcare liability defense litigation, healthcare regulatory compliance, and mental health law. Within her first five years of practice, she has briefed and successfully argued dispositive motions in healthcare liability cases resulting in either full or partial dismissal of the action; drafted winning appellate briefs; and assisted her colleague Stacie Miller in developing the involuntary commitment legal process in Knox County and in providing operational support and compliance advising for healthcare providers establishing involuntary commitment processes. Ms. Pyman is admitted to practice in Tennessee.
Lane E. Rideout is a shareholder with the law firm of Murphy Desmond Lawyers S.C. in Wisconsin. She represents businesses in an array of legal matters, including entity formation, operating agreements, business planning, contracts, buy-sell agreements, employment matters, real estate transactions, and succession planning. Ms. Rideout has provided legal assistance to a variety of business industries, including significant work with tech startups. She counsels businesses on strategic planning, human resources matters, leases, regulatory matters, taxes, and more. Ms. Rideout is also experienced in drafting and negotiating contracts with vendors, employees, business landlords, and other third-party operations impacting a business. In employment law, she has assisted independent contractors, employers, and employees with a range of issues including wages, employee classification, non-compete agreements, discrimination, harassment, and employment best practices. Ms. Rideout earned her B.A. degree from Trinity University and her J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas and Massachusetts. Ms. Rideout is a volunteer member on the Advisory Council of the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC).
Shalyn Watkins is a healthcare attorney in Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office. She represents various healthcare providers and companies, including, but not limited to, individual providers and provider practices, long-term care and skilled nursing facilities, laboratories, technology companies, and insurers and health plans. Ms. Watkins also assists clients with developing and managing compliant healthcare programs. Her practice involves assisting clients with regulatory compliance, health information privacy advising, Medicare and Medicaid/Medi-Cal reimbursement and overpayment issues, licensure and credentialing disputes, and transaction due diligence and structuring. Ms. Watkins' experience includes knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), corporate practice of medicine, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA), contract disputes, administrative law and regulatory enforcement actions, compensation and policy reviews, and the development and implementation of compliance plans for clients. She is admitted to practice in Alabama, California, New York, Ohio and Texas.
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