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Barbara Bennett
Partner
Nashville, TN
Partner
Nashville, TN
Barbara is a nationally recognized health care attorney who has been involved since the beginning at the intersection of Internet technology and health care. Noted for her M&A, data privacy and security, and strategic business advice, Barbara has led transactions and provided counsel for sophisticated and complex health care and health care service businesses that have included numerous multinational Fortune 50 companies.
A sought-after critical thinker and trusted strategic legal advisor, Barbara has counseled clients that include health plans, hospital systems, behavioral health businesses, labs, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, and companies providing IT, back-office, turn-key management and data analytics services to the health care industry. She has been a successful senior partner in a top-ten global law firm, as well as having more than a decade of in-house legal and business experience, including as General Counsel. She was described as “creative, practical, intelligent” by the 2012 Legal 500 US Rankings.
Primary outside legal counsel for establishment and operation of global enterprise privacy and data governance function for complex Fortune 20 health care services company.
Lead outside legal counsel for Fortune 20 health care services company for negotiation, documentation, maintenance and renewals of complex and material private label and services contract relationship.
Regularly reconciled and integrated privacy, security and data protection laws of multiple countries in advising on the development and implementation of global products and services, many involving health information.
Lead counsel to a private for-profit entity in deals to provide development, construction and operating services to ambulatory cancer centers affiliated with teaching hospitals.
Represented large investment bank on innovative strategy for the acquisition of more than a dozen hospitals by a consortium of non-profit providers.
Managed numerous data breaches for large publicly-traded businesses, including forensics, legal analysis and communications strategy.
Advised on strategies for the creation, use and protection of large corporate databases for multiple Fortune 25 clients.
Designed and implemented roll-out strategy and associated legal documents for national health care franchise.
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for health plan management company.
Associate General Counsel for leading University and Medical Center.
Judicial Law Clerk, Judge Thomas Wiseman, USDC, MDTN, 1983-84.
Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
Vanderbilt University, B.S., Mathematics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Tennessee Bar Association
Washington, DC Super Lawyers, 2007-2013, including Top 50 Women, 2007-2010
Legal Times Life Sciences Leading Lawyer (solo award), 2006
Expert Guide to Leading U.S. Health Care Lawyers, 2006
International Women’s Forum, 2012-present
Board of Advisors, Rock the Street Wall Street, 2016-2018
Board of Directors, Nashville CARES, 2011-2014
Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group, U.S. District Court, 1991-1993
Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution, 1992-1995
Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, U.S. District Court, 1994-1995
Tennessee Bar Commission on Status of Women and Minorities in Profession
Board of Directors, National Association of College and University Counsel, 1991-1994
Editor-in-Chief of 600+ page BNA treatise: eHealth Business and Transactional Law, 2002 with 2004 and 2006 Supplements
Barbara Bennett, Application of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Employer Benefit Plans and a Compliance Theory of Statutory Interpretation, JOURNAL OF HEALTH LAW, Spring 2004, at 225.
