Press Release
Duane Morris' Princeton Office Adds Health Law Partner William Weiner
PRINCETON, August 20, 2009—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that William L. Weiner has joined the firm as a partner in its Princeton office. Weiner will strengthen Duane Morris' Health Law and Corporate Practice Groups, as well as the firm's growing presence in New Jersey, where it recently added 22 attorneys in Cherry Hill from the former WolfBlock law firm. The 700-lawyer firm now has 56 attorneys in three offices in New Jersey. Weiner joins Duane Morris from Fox Rothschild LLP.
Weiner represents physicians and group practices as well as privately held companies. His practice focuses on commercial transactions and healthcare. As corporate counsel to the largest U.S. buyer of healthcare debt, Weiner has negotiated and drafted agreements for purchases of millions of dollars of healthcare debt from various hospitals and health systems. Weiner also provides a wide array of services for physicians, including legal advice on billing and reimbursement, and the sale, merger and reacquisition of practices. In addition, he represents a large physician hospital organization. For closely held businesses, 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 of North America's leading specialty stainless steel wire company.
Weiner was formerly a law clerk for the Hon. J. Sydney Hoffman of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Weiner is a regular contributor to healthcare industry publications and was recently published in the management journal Physicians Practice, Health Law360, Physician's News Digest and Physician Practice Group e-Newsletter, a publication of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). He is a member of AHLA, the American Bar Association's Health Law and Business sections, the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Health Law Section and several New Jersey bar associations. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Weiner serves on the board of directors of the Princeton Committee on Foreign Relations and is a past president of Friends' Central School Alumni Association.
Weiner earned his J.D. from Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law in 1983 and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.
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