Specialties

Nelson Hardiman is the law firm for healthcare professionals, facilities and businesses For more than 25 years, our practice has focused on regulatory compliance, litigation, and transactions specific to the California healthcare industry. We combine our specialized experience with a proactive approach and a commitment to our clients' success, making us the most effective choice for healthcare legal matters. Whether you want to call upon us to be your health care attorney, HIPAA lawyer, DEA lawyer, Medical Board lawyer, hospital lawyer, or Medicare lawyer--or any other variety of the "alphabet soup" that makes up the health care industry attorney--Nelson Hardiman has a "deep bench" of knowledgeable personnel available to help you. We are proud of our preeminent record of protecting health care providers, from professionals to facilities to the broadest range of healthcare businesses. Health Care Attorneys Working for You... Specialized: Our focus enables us to stay current with frequently evolving healthcare-related laws and regulations for the benefit of our clients. Proactive: Extensive experience in crisis response gives us an unparalleled ability to not only navigate, but avoid altogether, critical and costly legal problems before they threaten our clients' businesses. Collaborative: Our careful and attentive philosophy protects clients while delivering personalized service.

History

Established in 1989.

Nelson Hardiman is the law firm for healthcare providers and other businesses affected by healthcare licensing, operational, and reimbursement requirements. For more than 20 years, our lawyers have focused on regulatory compliance, litigation, and transactions specific to the healthcare industry. We combine specialized experience in a wide range of healthcare sectors with a proactive and attentive approach, making us the most effective choice for healthcare legal matters. If you are facing a HIPAA compliance problem, a DEA investigation related to controlled substance record-keeping, or a Medical Board complaint, we've defended clients in your position and know the landscape better than anyone. If you are unsure how to organize your business to comply with California-specific requirements, such as the corporate practice of medicine or the Knox-Keene Act, we've guided others and will give you the direction you need. Whether you are a hospital, skilled nursing facility, residential

Meet the Business Owner: Harry N.

Clients hire Harry Nelson not only because he has an unparalleled fund of knowledge of healthcare licensing, operations and reimbursement, but also because he takes responsiveness to client needs to a new level. Harry began his career as an associate and then partner in a Chicago-based law firm, Butler Rubin, where he represented universities and their academic medical centers on a broad range of issues. After relocating to California in 2001, Harry joined what was then a solo practice focusing on physician licensing and staff privileges into one of the premier healthcare law firms on the West Coast, expanding the firm's services to represent clients across virtually every sector of the healthcare industry in a broad range of litigation, transactional, and regulatory matters.