Based in Washington, DC, ClarkLaw PLLC represents individuals, and for-profit and non-profit organizations of all types, primarily with respect to business, corporate, and transactional matters on a national basis, and with a specialization in the healthcare industry.

Robert D. Clark, Esq., the Founder and Managing Member of ClarkLaw PLLC, has four decades of cutting-edge experience both in private practice and as in-house legal counsel.

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Robert Clark's experience includes operational, business, and transactional matters, with a specialization in the healthcare industry.

Robert D. Clark concentrates his practice primarily on business, corporate, and transactional matters, with a specialization in the healthcare industry. He has served as outside general counsel for many of his clients, and well understands the client's perspective due to his years of valuable experience as in-house legal counsel for some of the nation's leading health care organizations. Mr. Clark has been on the leading edge of industry developments and has been involved in several of the nation's most significant and highly publicized healthcare mergers and acquisitions.

In the healthcare industry, Mr. Clark has four decades of experience counseling and representing numerous types of healthcare organizations and entities with respect to business, corporate, and transactional matters and arrangements in a highly regulated environment, including matters and arrangements involving physician practices, hospitals, and health systems, behavioral health providers, long term care providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, hospice and palliative care providers, home health providers, pharmacies, group purchasing organizations, e-commerce businesses, patient assistance organizations, durable medical equipment suppliers, managed care entities, and other healthcare providers and vendors. His experience includes counseling and representation on stock and asset acquisitions and sales, mergers and corporate reorganizations, business entity formation and operation, captive professional corporation arrangements, provider networks, and affiliations, joint ventures, consulting and management arrangements, debt and equity financing, employment, and independent contractor relationships, and numerous other business and commercial transactions.

His regulatory experience includes counseling on state and federal laws governing fraud and abuse, self-referral prohibitions, facility and provider licensure and certification, provider and vendor contracting, managed care operations and contracting, HIPAA and privacy, and compliance program development and operations.

During his career, Mr. Clark has served as vice president and general counsel for one of the country's largest providers of hospice care, as well as in-house counsel for both a publicly-traded national operator of long-term care facilities and a behavioral health managed care organization. He has also served as the managing partner of the health law practice of a national law firm. Mr. Clark's clients very much value his experience as in-house legal counsel because of the keen insight it gives him on client expectations and perspectives.

  • Georgetown University, LL.M. in Taxation, 1990

    Howard University, J.D., 1981, magna cum laude

    University of Maryland, B.A., 1976

  • District of Columbia

    Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

  • Vice President and General Counsel, Vitas Healthcare Corporation

    Assistant General Counsel, Manor Care, Inc.

    General Counsel, Group Practice Affiliates, Inc.

    Assistant General Counsel, Greenspring Health Services, Inc.

    Managing Member, Health Law Practice, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC

    Partner, Reed Smith

    Partner, Baker Donelson

  • Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Health Care Law (2021, 2022)

    Listed in Who's Who Legal in Healthcare (2020)

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With forty years of cutting-edge business, corporate, and transactional experience in private practice and as in-house legal counsel, ClarkLaw PLLC will provide you with the necessary aid needed as you navigate evolving business industries and the legal landscape.