
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.

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For more information about Nelson Hardiman, LLP, you can contact them via:
- phone: 877-246-6423
- email: info@nelsonhardiman.com
- website: www.nelsonhardiman.com
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — The Entity
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $65.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar provides comprehensive information about creating an entity.
Webinar: Is Your Organization At Risk for Patient Brokering? Preparing for SB1228 and Impeding Changes in California’s Regulation of Addiction Treatment Marketing
- Date Recorded: September 6, 2018
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Paul Gilbert
- Price: free
This webinar examines the implications of SB1228 and its impending changes to the rules governing marketing practices in residential and outpatient treatment, as well as sober living recovery residences. Also addressed will be problematic current practices and the future of compliant marketing relationships.
Webinar: History of Addiction Treatment and Licensure, Certification, and Accreditation
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Harry Nelson, managing partner of Nelson Hardiman and founder of BHAP, takes us through the history of residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs and licensure requirements.
Webinar: UDT: Urine Drug Testing — Understanding the Compliance Minefield
- Date Recorded: November 23, 2016
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
There are certain components of running an addiction treatment facility that might seem so straightforward, self-explanatory, and uncomplicated that you don’t give them a second thought. Urine drug testing (UDT) is likely one of those. Despite the layers of complexity, this webinar will help show what you need to in order to steer clear of a regulatory nightmare down the road.
Webinar: How to Avoid Getting Wiped Out by the Wave of Commercial Payor Behavioral Health Audits
- Date Recorded: October 4, 2018
- Presenters: Paul Gilbert and John Mills
- Price: free
This webinar examines the most common issues arising in payor audits (including medical necessity; patient financial responsibility; and other issues asserted to constitute fraud, waste, or abuse) and the common arguments used as grounds for the nonpayment or recoupment of fees by insurers.
Webinar: The Right and Wrong Ways to Market Your Addiction Treatment Program
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Learn about marketing practices that are being investigated, the laws that apply, and how to avoid deceptive marketing practices.
Webinar: Florida Model in California? The Do’s, the Don’ts, and the Other
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Dave Sheridan
- Price: free
The “Florida Model” — the practice of combining unlicensed sober living with outpatient programs — has proliferated in California, even over the objections of regulators that the combination of these services violates California law. What does the law actually provide? When is it a problem to integrate unlicensed sober living with outpatient addiction treatment? Will we see legislative solutions to clarify or limit these practices? This website will clarify one of the most confusing topics in California and elsewhere.
Webinar: Managing Crisis Part 2: Responding to Government Encounters and Action
- Date Recorded: October 26, 2016
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In the second part of this two-part webinar series on managing crisis, you will learn how to prepare your staff (and yourself) for the event of a government investigation so that the outcome doesn’t bring unnecessary harm to your business. This webinar covers a wide spectrum of facility-authority interactions, from subpoenas to search warrants and much in between.
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.