Joan M. Lebow

Joan M. Lebow is a healthcare and commercial transactions lawyer. She has a combination of corporate and private firm experience, which she uses to support clients facing the challenges of regulatory compliance and risk management in their transactions and clinical delivery systems. Ms. Lebow represents clinical providers, organized medical staffs, IT consulting companies and software vendors which serve or support the hospitality, digital media, insurance, retail and manufacturing industries. She works collaboratively with clients often as part of a multidisciplinary team to close complex transactions. Her transactional and counseling practice is focused on healthcare providers and companies that support them, and includes compliance with reimbursement, data security and privacy and employment laws and regulations.

Prior to joining EM³, Ms. Lebow served as Chair and partner in the health care practice of two Chicago law firms where she represented institutional providers, large multidisciplinary practice groups, and global public and startup IT and digital media companies in healthcare transactions, regulatory compliance and strategic growth. Previously, she was co-founder of her own law practice, a certified woman owned law firm in Chicago and Oak Brook, Illinois with an industry focus in healthcare and technology. She represented physician group practices, clinical enterprises and institutions of all types including technology companies ranging in size from small to emerging market sectors and Fortune 50 companies.

Ms. Lebow has served as in-house counsel to Chicago hospitals. During her career as in-house counsel for two major hospital systems, she managed self-insurance portfolios and monitored all related professional licensing issues. She provided regulatory compliance guidance, particularly with regard to reimbursement. She also designed and implemented large-scale data privacy programs and developed a special focus on telemedicine and mobile applications in medicine, including distance delivery technology.

• Previously, she was founder of her law practice, a certified woman owned law firm in Chicago and Oak Brook, Illinois with an industry focus in healthcare and technology. She represented physician group practices, clinical enterprises and institutions of all types including technology companies ranging in size from small to emerging market sectors and Fortune 50 companies. Joan has served as in-house counsel to Chicago hospitals; her leadership in this area is widely recognized. During her career as in-house counsel for two major hospital systems she has managed self-insurance portfolios and monitored all related professional licensing issues. She provided consistent regulatory compliance guidance, particularly regarding reimbursement. She also designed and implemented large-scale data privacy programs and developed a special focus on telemedicine and mobile applications in medicine, including distance delivery technology.
• Following work within the hospital sector, Joan became general counsel of ibex Healthdata Systems (now owned by United Healthcare), a startup software company in the healthcare industry.

• Healthcare regulatory compliance and transactions
• Commercial transactions including software licensing
• Corporate counseling

• Ms. Lebow was awarded her Juris Doctor from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law in June 1978 and Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, Claremont, California in June 1975.

• Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence (5.0/5.0), Martindale-Hubbell
• Ms. Lebow is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters in Healthcare Administration Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Ms. Lebow served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
• Presenter at numerous legal, healthcare industry and technology industry conferences on data privacy and security, compliance and technology
• Treasurer of the Board of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys.
• Author of Westlaw, Law of Medical Practice in Illinois, Confidentiality and Privacy, 2010 to present