Areas of Practice
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D., 1991; Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Law and Medicine; Review of Law and Social Change
- Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. in Psychology and German, 1985; University Scholar; College Scholar
- Goethe Institute, Luneberg, Germany, Education Abroad Program, 1983
Bar Admissions
- Florida, 1996
- New York, 1992
Lynn Barrett is a special counsel in the Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group and is a member of the firm's Health Care practice. Ms. Barrett focuses on health care regulatory, compliance, transactional, and operational issues, and has extensive experience advising health care systems, hospitals, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and other health care providers. Ms. Barrett has significant health care transactional experience and has participated in various acquisitions, bond offerings, and financing transactions. In particular, she has a great deal of experience advising health care systems with respect to all aspects of operations, from complex regulatory issues involving hospital and physician arrangements to medical staff matters to bioethical issues. Ms. Barrett also has experience in negotiating clinical trial agreements, and has structured and participated in numerous Institutional Review Boards.
Ms. Barrett joins Jones Walker after serving as Deputy General Counsel for a health care district in South Florida. In this position, which she held from 2005–2009, Ms. Barrett handled regulatory, corporate, transactional, and other matters for the five-hospital public health system, which included a primary care network, a home health agency, and a skilled nursing facility. During her tenure, she assisted with a number of system-wide projects, including the $32-million acquisition of an acute care hospital and adjacent properties, as well as the structuring and roll-out of an enterprise-wide electronic medical records system.
From 1999–2005, Ms. Barrett served as Managing Senior Counsel, Florida Region, for one of the largest hospital companies in the United States, for which she directly provided and oversaw the legal representation of 16 hospitals in Florida. In addition, she served as Senior Corporate Attorney, Office of General Counsel, for a premier nonprofit health system in South Florida.
News
- Jones Walker Presents Florida Health Care Seminar
- Jones Walker Presents Alabama Health Care Seminar
- Barrett Appointed to Chair of Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group
- Jones Walker Presents Florida Health Care Seminar
- Barrett is Published in the Louisiana Association of Revenue Cycle Management NEWS
- Jones Walker Presents Health Care Seminar
Presentations
- "Recent Health Care Trends from a Legal and Compliance Perspective", November 17, 2011
- "Recent Health Care Trends from a Legal and Compliance Perspective", October 4, 2011
- "Health Care Legislation Update—Accountable Care Organizations, Medical Home, and Other Key Trends", May 26, 2011
- "Health Care Fraud & Compliance: Updates, Trends, and Where To Go From Here" (Fort Lauderdale), November 10, 2010
- "Health Care Fraud & Compliance: Updates, Trends, and Where To Go From Here" (Baton Rouge), September 14, 2010
- "HIPAA and HITECH Compliance—The Reality for Health Care Providers in 2010", August 19, 2010, Health Care Webinar Series
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association (Chair, Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group, 2011 to date)
- Broward Senior Executive Program (2008)
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
- The Florida Bar
- Memorial Senior Leadership Program (2008)
- Miracle League Baseball Team (Volunteer)
- New York State Bar Association
