Trusted Advisor of the Year HONOREE: Carol Lucas

Carol Lucas
Shareholder
Buchalter

Carol K. Lucas is chair of the Buchalter’s Health Care Practice Group and former co-chair of the Corporate Practice Group. Lucas focuses her practice on healthcare law and general business law. She has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities, private placements, state and federal regulations, entity formation and corporate representation of both public and private companies in the healthcare industry. 

Over the last several years, Lucas has represented numerous clients in connection with issues and disputes related to payment for healthcare services. She is also an expert on the establishment and representation of Federally Qualified Health Centers and related issues such as governance requirements, issues raised by hospital sponsorship of FQHCs, application issues, and the impact of health care reform on these entities. 

She also specializes in the representation of ambulatory surgery centers, med spas, imaging centers, and other ancillary providers in a variety of medical specialties, and in the legal and business issues that confront independent practice associations and other physician organizations.

Lucas is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell and is recognized by Chambers USA as a leader in the Health Care field and one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She was selected by Corporate Counsel as a 2012 Top Rated Lawyer in Health Care Law. No stranger to the pages of the Los Angeles Business Journal, in 2019, she was recognized as a nominee for the 2019 Women’s Council” awards and last year she was named to the “Women of Influence: Health Care” list.

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