Counsel
Alston & Bird LLP
Washington, DC
(202) 239-3626
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Paula Stannard is a former deputy general counsel and acting general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she oversaw the Food and Drug, Civil Rights and Legislation divisions of the 450-attorney HHS Office of the General Counsel and provided legal advice and counsel to senior HHS officials, including the Secretary of the department, on the issues arising in their respective areas.
At Alston & Bird, Paula advises clients on regulatory questions that arise out of the on-going health care reform effort and also will focuses her practice on food and drug and other regulatory issues in the health care sector. Her HHS experience provides clients significant and substantive knowledge of, and experience in, FDA, HIPAA, e-health and health IT, federal health insurance regulation, patient safety, and public health preparedness and emergency response issues.
Prior to her federal service, Paula was a corporate litigator in the Chicago office of Skadden Arps, where she litigated and counseled in complex civil and commercial cases involving a wide variety of legal and business issues, including business misrepresentation and fraud, contracts, corporate governance, antitrust, and securities law and fraud.