William L. Weiner
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
1940 Route 70 East, Suite 200
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
USA
Phone: +1 856 874 4212
Fax: +1 609 228 5930
Email: wlweiner@duanemorris.com

William L. Weiner practices in the area of healthcare law. Mr. Weiner represents physicians and group practices as well as privately-held companies. His practice focuses on commercial transactions and healthcare. As corporate counsel to buyers of healthcare debt, Mr. Weiner has negotiated and drafted agreements for purchases of millions of dollars of healthcare receivables from various hospitals and health systems. Mr. Weiner also provides a wide array of services for physicians and their practices, including advice on billing and reimbursement, corporate governance, medical staff and regulatory issues, and the sale, merger and reacquisition of practices. In addition, he represents owners and operators of traumatic brain injury centers and nursing homes and a large physician hospital organization. He has also been retained by local hospitals to present legal seminars to their residents and medical staff and advise hospital administrators on regulatory and other issues, including those relating to practice acquisition and divestiture and proposed joint ventures. For closely-held businesses, Mr. Weiner provides general corporate services, designs and drafts employment and shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements and limited liability operating agreements, and assists with the purchase and sale of businesses. He is also outside general counsel to North America's leading specialty stainless steel wire company.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Weiner served as law clerk for the Hon. J. Sydney Hoffman of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Weiner is a 1983 graduate of Dickinson School of Law and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Areas of Practice

• Healthcare Law

Representative Matters

• Closed a deal on behalf of Anchor Inne, Inc. to sell the assets of a traumatic brain-injury center, which it owned and operated in western Pennsylvania, to a nationally well-known owner/operator of nursing homes, assisted-living centers and similar facilities. In addition, as part of this transaction, Anchor Inne, through a related entity, West Lake Associates, leased the real estate on which the center is located to the asset buyer.

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• American Health Lawyers Association
  - Health Law Section
  - Business Section
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Bucks County Bar Association
• Mercer County Bar Association
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
  - Health Law Section
• Union League of Philadelphia
• Princeton Committee on Foreign Relations

Admissions

• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania

Education

• The Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1983
• University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1980

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2009-present
• Fox Rothschild LLP
  - Partner, 1999-2009
• Mason, Griffin & Pierson
  - Associate, 1998-1999

Board Memberships

• Youth Services Committee of the Board of Directors of Catholic Social Services, 2012-present
• Friends' Central School Alumni Association
  - Past President

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  - Volunteer/Reader

Selected Publications

• Regular contributor to Duane Morris' Health Law Blog
• "Is a Value-Based Healthcare System in Our Future?" Modern Healthcare, October 2009
• "Insuring Against Employee Theft," Physicians Practice, May 2009
• "Dealing with the Non-Compliant Patient," The Pulse (publication of Doylestown Hospital), February 2008
• Quoted in "Patient Informed Consents," Healthcare Risk Management News, Winter 2008
• "Are No-Sue Agreements Appropriate for My Practice," Health Law360, December 2007
• Contributed to multiple articles on a variety of topics for Physician Practice Group e-Newsletter, a monthly publication of the American Health Lawyers Association (2007-2008).

Selected Speaking Engagements

• "Frequently Asked Questions Concerning the Affordable Care Act," West Capital Management, Philadelphia, March 5, 2013
• "Medical Records Law in Delaware," Lorman Education Services Seminar, Wilmington, Delaware, September 12, 2012
• "Forming Physician Multispecialty Group Practices: Key Legal Considerations—Evaluating Compensation Models, Negotiating Business Contracts, and Complying with Federal and State Laws," Strafford's Forming Physician Multispecialty Group Practices Webinar, September 2011
• "The 7th Annual Entrepreneurs Forum in Guangzhou," Guangzhou, China, July 2011
• "Health Care Reform: Overview and Selected Highlights of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," M&T Bank program, Horsham, Pennsylvania, December 2010
• "Top 10 Healthcare Issues for 2009," Medical Staff of Doylestown Hospital, May 2009
• "Key Issues in Physician Employment Agreements," Medical Residents of Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 2008
• "Salient Issues in Forming a Multi-Specialty Group as a Physician-Hospital Joint Venture," Medical Staff and Administration of Doylestown Hospital, Winter 2008