With 40+ years of dedicated experience as a healthcare law attorney, Lew Lefko brings the expertise and knowledge of health care delivery and health planning to his legal services on health care law, compliance and business transactions. Lew understands the culture of health care companies and knows the range of their legal, operational, regulatory and compliance needs as a law firm partner, and as in-house counsel for:

• A teaching hospital with highly specialized trauma, burn and kidney transplant centers and a helicopter/fixed wing air ambulance program.
• A rural hospital management company with 21 managed hospitals.
• A diversified, national health care company of 35 acute care hospitals and long term acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, hospices, ambulance companies, and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation management subsidiaries.
• A start-up health care company providing minimally-invasive surgical strategies for chronic spine pain and chronic migraine management.

As a focused healthcare law attorney, Lew’s experience in health law and health planning provides benefits to his clients and informs his strategic advice and counsel. His collaborative and cooperative approach developed from close relationships with health care executive leaders, health lawyer colleagues, compliance officers, physicians and other caregivers.

Depth of Expertise as a Healthcare Law Attorney

• Legal Counsel – Teaching Hospital and Hospital Management Company
• Legal Counsel – National Health Care Company
• Transition Counsel-Merger Integration
• Private Practice – Small Law Firm
• Private Practice – Large Law Firm
• Private Practice – New Health Law Practice
• General Counsel/Compliance and Privacy Officer
• Private Practice – Solo Law Practice

Education and Licensure

Lew Lefko is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He attended the University of Texas School of Public Health where he earned a Master in Public Health with a concentration in Health Services Administration. Lew’s law degree is from the University of Houston School of Law. He became a Texas licensed attorney in 1985.

With 40+ years of dedicated experience as a healthcare law attorney, Lew Lefko brings the expertise and knowledge of health care delivery and health planning to his legal services on health care law, compliance and business transactions. Lew understands the culture of health care companies and knows the range of their legal, operational, regulatory and compliance needs as a law firm partner, and as in-house counsel for:

• A teaching hospital with highly specialized trauma, burn and kidney transplant centers and a helicopter/fixed wing air ambulance program.
• A rural hospital management company with 21 managed hospitals.
• A diversified, national health care company of 35 acute care hospitals and long term acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, hospices, ambulance companies, and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation management subsidiaries.
• A start-up health care company providing minimally-invasive surgical strategies for chronic spine pain and chronic migraine management.

As a focused healthcare law attorney, Lew’s experience in health law and health planning provides benefits to his clients and informs his strategic advice and counsel. His collaborative and cooperative approach developed from close relationships with health care executive leaders, health lawyer colleagues, compliance officers, physicians and other caregivers.

Depth of Expertise as a Healthcare Law Attorney

• Legal Counsel – Teaching Hospital and Hospital Management Company
• Legal Counsel – National Health Care Company
• Transition Counsel-Merger Integration
• Private Practice – Small Law Firm
• Private Practice – Large Law Firm
• Private Practice – New Health Law Practice
• General Counsel/Compliance and Privacy Officer
• Private Practice – Solo Law Practice

Education and Licensure

Lew Lefko is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He attended the University of Texas School of Public Health where he earned a Master in Public Health with a concentration in Health Services Administration. Lew’s law degree is from the University of Houston School of Law. He became a Texas licensed attorney in 1985.