A three-lawyer health care legal team has jumped from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to Ropes & Gray, where they will practice as counsel in the firm’s Washington office.
J. Harold Richards, Michael J. McDougall, and Alex J. Talley followed Ropes & Gray partner Stephanie Webster, who weeks ago made the same move. In June of 2019, the team, led by Webster, won the U.S. Supreme Court case Azar v. Allina Health Services, in which the court found that the Department of Health & Human Services improperly changed Medicare payment rates without notice.
Richards, McDougall, and Talley represent ...