January 29, 2009 Contact: Client Relations Department
Phone Toll Free: 800.686.2825
E-mail: ClientRelations@bdblaw.com Joseph J. Feltes Named Managing Partner of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP’s Canton Office
Canton, OH -  The law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP is pleased to announce that Joseph J. Feltes has been named Managing Partner of its Canton, Ohio office, effective immediately. Feltes replaces Jeffrey Halm, who diligently served as Managing Partner of the Canton office, as well as a member of the Firm’s Board of Managers, for many years. Halm will continue to focus his practice in Trusts & Estates. Feltes has been with the Firm for 30 years and is a Partner in the Health & Medicine, Litigation, and Employment & Workers’ Compensation Practice Groups. In addition, he serves as the Chairman of the Firm’s Retention Committee. “I am very confident in Joe’s ability to lead the attorneys and staff of our Canton office. He is not only an experienced and successful attorney as his practice attests, but also has the enthusiasm, management abilities and interpersonal skills to assist our attorneys and staff achieve greater success,” said Patrick J. Keating, President and CEO of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP. Feltes’ practice includes the representation of physicians and hospitals in compliance, contracting, and Medical Staff issues (including credentialing, corrective action, and disruptive physician issues). Feltes also handles matters on behalf of health care providers in antitrust, credentialing, false claims, fraud and abuse, and malpractice litigation. His clients include acute care and rehabilitation hospitals, physicians, managed care plans and TPAs, durable medical equipment suppliers, and other health care providers and suppliers. He has significant experience in advising clients on the HIPAA Privacy Act. In addition, he counsels companies and individuals on how to avoid liability for e-mail and Internet use and how to implement retention and disposition policies for electronically stored records. He also represents employers in discrimination, wrongful termination, and other employment matters as well as represents healthcare employers in drafting employee handbooks and compliance policies. Mr. Feltes has written many articles for M.D. News and is the author of chapter “Informal Dispute Resolution and Its Use in Peer Review,” for the Peer Review Guidebook, published by the American Health Lawyers Association. He regularly speaks on health law, provider compliance, medical staff and problem physician remediation, clinical e-mail and communication issues, HIPAA, and related issues for various organizations and clients throughout the Midwest. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is recognized as an Ohio’s Super Lawyers™, as voted by his peers. In addition, he has a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV, which indicates very high to pre-eminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar. Feltes received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his A.B. from John Carroll University. He is admitted to practice before the Ohio Bar and the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Health Law Section and Antitrust Section), the Ohio State Bar Association (Health Law Committee), and the Stark County Bar Association. Feltes is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Ohio Society of Hospital Attorneys. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Boards for Pregnancy Support Center, and WAPS 91.3 The Summit (Akron-Canton Public Radio Station). Mr. Feltes resides in Canton, Ohio, with his wife, Annette Yoho.
The Canton office of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP employs more than 16 attorneys that represent several major organizations in the region including Akron General Medical Center, Aultman Hospital, Dunlap Community Hospital and Tri-County Hematology and Oncology. The attorneys in Canton specialize in various practice areas, such as health and medicine, employment and workers' compensation, intellectual property, business, real estate and trusts and estates. The office has seven attorneys rated as Best Lawyers in America® and ten attorneys rated as Ohio Super Lawyers®. The office also houses the firm's affiliate title agency, Certified Title.Since 1913, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP has served individuals and businesses in virtually every industry and trade. Through offices in Boca Raton, Florida, and Akron, Canton and Cleveland, Ohio, the Firm provides legal services to clients from sole proprietors to multinational corporations, governmental bodies, foundations and public organizations.
Areas of Focus: Alternate Dispute Resolution; Appellate; Bankruptcy; Business Law; Closely Held Companies; Commercial Law and Complex Litigation; Computer Law; Construction Law; Copyrights; Corporate Law; Creditors Rights; Criminal Law & Government Investigation; Employee Benefits; Environmental; Family Law; Finance Law; Franchise; Health Care; Health Personnel Immigration; Home Care Agencies; Hospice Care Programs; Hospitals & Health Systems; Immigration Law; Insurance Coverage; Insurance Defense; Insurance Providers; Intellectual Property; Labor and Employment Law; Land Use and Zoning; Litigation; Long-Term Care Providers; Medical Malpractice Defense; Mergers and Acquisitions; Non-Profit Organizations Law; Patents; Physicians and Physician Groups; Private Foundations; Probate; Public Law; Publicly Held Companies; Real Estate; School Law; Securities; Sports & Entertainment Law; Succession Planning; Taxation; Toxic Tort; Trademarks/Service Marks; Trade Secrets; Trial; Trust & Estate Planning; White Collar Defense; Workers’ Compensation.
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