Things Our Mothers Would Tell You
about the Lawyers at CSB

It can be awkward to tout the accomplishments of one’s own firm. Happily, our mothers have no such hesitation. Here’s what they would tell you about the attainments of our lawyers:

• Seven of our lawyers are listed in Best Lawyers in America, including five for health care.
• Three of our lawyers are listed in Super Lawyers (Southwest).
• Two of our lawyers are listed in the Employment section of the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and our firm is listed by Chambers as one of Arizona’s top 11 law firms for employers.
• One of our lawyers served the country as a member of the United States Congress.
• We have a former President, a current Fellow, and a current Board Member of the American Health Lawyers Association (a national healthcare attorneys association with over 10,000 members).
• The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services nominated a CSB lawyer to serve as a member of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) EMTALA Technical Advisory Group (TAG), and that lawyer became the chair of one of the TAG Action Subcommittees.
• Four of our lawyers have served as members of the Board of the Arizona Association of Health Care Lawyers, including one founding member and one who has served as President.
• A CSB lawyer has served for over 10 years on the Board of Directors of the Devereux Foundation.
• One of us has served as a member of the National Governor’s Association State Alliance for e-Health, Health Information Protection Taskforce.
• A CSB lawyer has been chair of the AHLA Health Information and Technology Practice Group.
• One of us has been a member of the National Anti-Fraud Health Care Advisory Panel, Foundation of Research and Education of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
• Two CSB lawyers were involved in the Flinn Foundation Translational Research Project Advisory Committee.
• Another CSB lawyer is assisting the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission in establishing the Arizona Translational Resource Network (AzTransNet), an initiative to create collaborative research infrastructure in the state.
• One of us was appointed by the Governor of Arizona to serve as a member of the Arizona Emergency Room Access Task Force.
• We have a columnist for the East Valley Tribune among our ranks.
• The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Steering Committee on Hospital Diversion has benefited from the expertise of a CSB lawyer.
• At the request of the Governor of Arizona, one CSB lawyer served as the Co-Chair of Arizona Health-e Connection (Arizona’s e-health data exchange initiative), and another is chairing the initiative’s Legal Work Group.
• A CSB lawyer served as the Vice Chair of the ABA Health Law Section’s Licensure, Certification and Accreditation practice group.
• One of us serves on the Advisory Board for the Arizona State University Biomedical Informatics Department and the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the ASU Center for Health Care Innovation and Clinical Trials.
• Prior to coming to CSB, one of our lawyers served as an Assistant Attorney General, representing the Arizona State Department of Health Services’ Licensing Division.
• One lawyer has served as the Program Chair for the ABA Antitrust Section Health Care Committee, while another has been the Program Chair for the ABA Health Law Section’s annual meeting.
• The Governor of Arizona appointed a CSB lawyer to be a member of the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council (GRRC).
• Four of our lawyers clerked in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (and another in U.S. District Court).
• We serve as legal advisors to various Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) committees and task forces, including the Compliance Task Force, Managed Care Task Force, Emergency Department Overcapacity Task Force, Government Relations Committee, and the HIPAA Task Force.
• One CSB lawyer practiced health law in the state of Washington, where he was the president of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys.
• One of us travelled to the Ukraine in 2004 to act in the capacity of an international election observer.
• One of the more athletic lawyers in our firm was an NCAA champion swimmer and a member of the 1992 Olympic Team in Barcelona, while another’s exploits on the soccer field led him to be honored as a two time inductee into the Brandeis University Athletics Hall of Fame.
• And most of us eat our vegetables.

And, after all this, we think our mothers would be most proud of saying that all of our lawyers are nice, genuine people who take great joy in helping others and doing what we can to make the world a better place.