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Partner/Director Jeffrey S. Brown Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers for Fifth Consecutive Year
Associate Kimberly Kempton-Serra Featured as Rising Star for Fourth Consecutive Year
Hackensack, NJ – Garfunkel Wild, P.C. (GW) is pleased to announce that partner/director Jeffrey S. Brown has been selected for inclusion in the 2014 edition of New Jersey Super Lawyers for the fifth consecutive year. Associate Kimberly Kempton-Serra is featured as a “Rising Star” for the fourth consecutive year. Only 5% of the lawyers in the State are recognized by Super Lawyers and only 2.5% are named as Rising Stars.
Jeffrey S. Brown, Partner/Director of the firm and head of its Hackensack, New Jersey office, is a member of the firm’s Health Care, HIPAA Compliance, Insurance Regulatory and Litigation & Arbitration Practice Groups, and specializes in healthcare and hospital law. Mr. Brown represents various hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians’ practices and other health care-related clients. A frequent speaker on health care issues, including fraud and abuse, governance and nonprofit matters, he has lectured at Seton Hall University School of Law (where he serves on the Advisory Board of the Health Law & Policy Program), as well as before the New Jersey Association of Health Care Facilities, Bergen County Medical Society, Bergen County Bar Association, and more. In addition to being a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Mr. Brown co-chairs the Health and Hospital Law Committee of the Bergen County Bar Association.
Kimberly Kempton-Serra, a GW Associate and member of the Business and Health Care Practice Groups, advises clients on a host of health care and general commercial matters. These include business structuring, federal and state law regulatory compliance, tax issues, mergers, sales and acquisitions of various health care entities, technology contracts and employment and equity ownership agreements for practices and health care facilities. Ms. Kempton-Serra has been an Adjunct Professor in the MSJ Program at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she taught Health Law. She has authored several publications relating to corporate health care matters, including co-authoring “Tax Principles Concerning Buy-Outs and Related Post-Withdrawal Compensation Issues,” Third Edition, Representing Physicians Handbook, Chapter 6, American Health Lawyers Association, January 2013. Ms. Kempton-Serra is licensed in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and is a member of the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association.
Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. A Thomson Reuters publication, Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a rigorous, patented multiphase process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research and selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in a particular state, who are 40 years old or younger or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. Super Lawyers can be found online at www.superlawyers.com, where lawyers can be searched by practice area and location.
Founded in 1980, Garfunkel Wild, P.C. (GW) maintains one of the most active health care practices in the Northeast, while also providing services to many non-health-related clients. Always at the forefront of Federal and State developments, GW meets a full range of needs including strategic planning, complex transactions, exempt and taxable financing, white collar defense, litigation, fraud and abuse, estate planning, elder law, tax issues, real estate, licensing, capital formation, EPA/environmental issues, health information technology, privacy and security and bankruptcy. GW maintains offices in Great Neck, New York; Hackensack, New Jersey and Stamford, Connecticut. For more information, visit www.garfunkelwild.com.