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J. Kent Culley initially practiced in general law, including litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights and spent several years as an appellate lawyer for the Allegheny County District Attorneyâs Office. Since the late 70âs, however, he has focused his practice in the area of corporate law, primarily in the health care field, representing health care providers, hospitals, closely held corporations and not-for-profit corporations including health care trade associations and foundations...
J. Kent Culley initially practiced in general law, including litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights and spent several years as an appellate lawyer for the Allegheny County District Attorneyâs Office. Since the late 70âs, however, he has focused his practice in the area of corporate law, primarily in the health care field, representing health care providers, hospitals, closely held corporations and not-for-profit corporations including health care trade associations and foundations...
J. Kent Culley initially practiced in general law, including litigation, bankruptcy and creditors' rights and spent several years as an appellate lawyer for the Allegheny County District Attorneyâs Office. Since the late 70âs, however, he has focused his practice in the area of corporate law, primarily in the health care field, representing health care providers, hospitals, closely held corporations and not-for-profit corporations including health care trade associations and foundations. Kent also assists in government relations issues and lobby activities on behalf of clients. Kent is a member of the firm's Health Care and Government Relations Practice Groups. He was included in the Best Lawyers in America® in 2009 and 2010 as well as being named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer® in 2006 and 2007 in the Health Care Law Category.
Kent focuses on corporate planning and structuring in the health care field, including Medicare and HIPAA compliance. Since the late 1980âs, Kent has been responsible for structuring some 20 health care physical therapy rehabilitation networks throughout the United States as well as service arrangements and joint ventures between hospitals and rehabilitation therapy companies. Additionally, Kent has been actively involved in mergers and acquisitions. Typically, these involved rehabilitation companies in the physical therapy field being acquired by other similar private corporations or publicly held health corporations. Kent has represented both the seller or buyer in separate acquisition transactions and typically the successor company in a merger of practices.
Kent also provides legal services for numerous state physical therapy trade associations of the American Physical Therapy Association, including the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association. Kent has represented the Foundation for Physical Therapy and provides legal services to the American Physical Therapy Association as well. Kent also is currently legal counsel to The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy. He also represents numerous private health care corporate practices and health in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia. He has provided legislative planning activities for some twenty-five state chapters of the American Physical Therapy Association.
About J. Kent Culley
Practice Areas
- Business & Finance
- Government Relations
- Healthcare
- Long Term Care
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Litigation
- 0%
Current Employment Position(s)
- Of Counsel
Languages
- German
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 1967
- U.S. Federal Courts, 1967
- U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
Other Affiliations
- N. Boros YMCA, 1978 - 1980
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member, Corporation Section
- American Health Lawyers Association, Member
Education
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence - Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
A.B., Bachelor of Arts
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Delta Theta
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About J. Kent Culley
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Healthcare Law
- Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers®, Healthcare Law
- Service Award, Pennsylvania Insurance Prevention Authority, Pennsylvania Fraud Conference, 2010
- Martindale Hubbell "AV® Preeminent"
- Service Award, The Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association
- Service Award, American Physical Therapy Association - Private Practice Section
- Service Award, Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
Office Information
Address
One PPG PlaceSuite 1500 Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone
Fax
- (412) 594-5619
Websites
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