Our health industry practice has maintained a robust privacy practice since the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, and has kept abreast with changes in the law, most recently the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009. Our lawyers have the depth of experience needed to handle health information privacy and security issues in these dynamic times.

The public law and policy practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has long understood that solutions to many issues facing clients involve the very processes by which legislation and policy are conceived, developed and implemented by governments in the United States and around the world. For this reason, Akin Gump has built and maintained one of the largest and most diverse government relations practices of any major law firm worldwide.