Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman
Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman is a national, full-service law firm providing professional legal services to businesses, institutions, and individuals.
With nearly 150 attorneys nationwide, you can expect our full-service legal team whenever and wherever you need us. We serve eight major markets nationwide, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami/Fort Lauderdale, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sarasota, and Washington, D.C.
Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman offer a full spectrum of legal services to support clients through the entire business lifecycle:
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The attorneys at Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman are well-versed in advising behavioral health clients at every point in the commercial stream of medicine, healthcare, and life sciences.
Our experienced lawyers advise clients ranging from hospital and health systems, behavioral health, and post-acute care facilities to physician organizations, telehealth providers, labs, pharmacies, and MSOs. The firm’s attorneys offer expertise advising on healthcare licensing, operational, and reimbursement issues — including corporate practice of medicine, Medicare and Medicaid requirements, FDA compliance, health privacy and data security, healthcare finance and investment, and other industry issues.
We believe that keen legal counsel combines forward-thinking business acumen with an expansive understanding of your organization, its challenges, and your strategic objectives. As a full-service law firm, we offer a broad spectrum of commercial legal services to fully support clients in the behavioral health space, including corporate, real estate, labor & employment, intellectual property, litigation, and more.
Harry Nelson is the chairman of the National Behavioral Health Association of Providers. Harry currently serves as the chair of Leech Tishman’s Healthcare Practice Group, where he serves as outside general counsel to numerous healthcare organizations. Prior to joining the firm, Harry served as founder and managing partner of Nelson Hardiman, LLC, one of the largest healthcare and life science-focused law firms in California.
Harry is arguably the leading healthcare and life science lawyer in America. Over the past three decades, he has built a record of respected authority on a broad range of healthcare compliance issues. Beyond his legal expertise, Harry is known nationally as a consummate leader at the intersection of healthcare law and business, as evidenced by his role in co-founding five healthcare-related start-ups in the last decade. Deeply immersed in healthcare transformation and innovation; he frequently speaks on cutting edge issues and the future of the industry itself.
More Information
For more information about Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, you can contact them via:
- phone: 877-246-6423
- email: info@leechtishman.com
- website: www.leechtishman.com
Webinar: Getting What You Pay For: Legal Pitfalls in Paying for Referrals
- Date Recorded: January 21, 2026
- Presenter: John A. Mills and Tara Davidoff
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (members receive webinar for free)
Marketing in the healthcare industry is fraught with risk, and many have gone to prison for undertaking illegal and unethical marketing practices. In this webinar we will go over what constitutes legal and illegal marketing practices in healthcare, with an emphasis on federal and state laws targeting the addiction recovery industry. We’ll also provide best practices to avoid liability for kickbacks and false advertising.
Webinar: Mandated Reporting: What is It and How Does it Apply to Me?
- Date Recorded: December 13, 2023
- Presenters: John Mills and Zachary Rothenberg
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
Buried within many statutes, regulations and contracts are provisions that require that SUD facilities affirmatively and timely self-report certain events and occurrences. This webinar will go over significant reporting requirements for SUD facilities, including reporting adverse events such as patient injuries to government agencies, identified overpayments to payors, and much more.
Webinar: EKRA Essentials — What Providers Need to Know
- Date Recorded: August 16, 2022
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
This one-hour CE event will show providers what they need to know about risks, compliance, and enforcement related to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) and related laws.
Webinar: Recent Development in the Mental Health Parity Laws: What You Need to Know for Improving Reimbursement
- Date Recorded: May 17, 2022
- Presenter: John Mills and Zachary Rothenberg
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25)
In the past several years, there have been significant efforts at both the state and federal level to strengthen mental health parity legislation. This CE-based webinar delves into the most notable existing and prospective legislation, with an emphasis on California’s SB 855.
Webinar: The New Normal: Avoiding Trouble in Addiction Treatment and Behavioral Health Marketing
- Date Recorded: July 9, 2020
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
As enforcement of new federal and state laws continues to expand alongside payor efforts to combat abusive practices, a “New Normal” is emerging in addiction treatment and behavioral health. This webinar will focus on how marketing enforcement continues to evolve, including examples of recent local, state, and federal investigative practices and prosecution.
Webinar: Telehealth Updates and Best Practices Amid COVID-19
- Date Recorded: April 28, 2020
- Presenter: Kristina Sherry
- Price: free
This webinar explores the shifting telehealth landscape amid COVID-19, which the World Health Organization characterized as a pandemic and which the United States declared a public health emergency that has prompted the need for greater flexibility in health care and enhanced access to providers.
Webinar: Help Us Help You Get Paid: Ten Things You Can Start Doing Today to Improve Your Commercial Reimbursement Success
- Date Recorded: April 21, 2020
- Presenters: John A. Mills and Zachary Rothenberg
- Price: free
This presentation provides a “Top Ten List” of concrete strategies, tools, and approaches that attendees can implement right away to maximize reimbursement for services rendered, whether to polish the books in anticipation of a transaction or simply to generate additional cash flow going forward.
Webinar: Preparing to Sell Your Behavioral Health Program and What to Expect in the Process
- Date Recorded: February 19, 2020
- Presenters: Hillel Kamionski and Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Selling your behavioral health program can be complicated, frustrating, confusing, and tremendously rewarding. Whether selling the operation, the assets, and/or the property, this webinar will teach you how to prepare for the process, what to watch out for, what areas to avoid, what areas to concentrate on, and how to help the process go smoothly.
A national membership association that provides education and advocacy for those in the behavioral health and addiction treatment industries.
We are the leading and unifying voice of addiction-focused treatment programs.
