LANCASTER, PA, July 3, 2003 – James W. Saxton, Chairman of Stevens & Lee’s Health Law Litigation Group and Co-Chairman of the Health Law Group spoke at the American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting held July 1st and 2nd in San Antonio, TX. 

Mr. Saxton co-presented with Robert L. Calhoun on the topic “Alternative Risk Financing in a Tough Insurance Market and How Mandatory Positive Risk Management Will Help Make It Work.”  Mr. Saxton presents at over 25 annual conferences on a regional and national basis to audiences of an estimated 2,000 physicians.

Mr. Saxton has written numerous handbooks, articles and textbooks, most recently, Managed Care Success: Reducing Risk While Increasing Patient Satisfaction, published by Aspen Publishing Company. He is a member of numerous local, state and national organizations and boards, and is a Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyer’s Association Substantive Law Committee on health and hospital liability.

The experienced lawyers of Stevens & Lee's Health Law Litigation Group handle managed care litigation, commercial health care litigation, medical staff matters, fraud and abuse, licensing, and represent clients before state and federal regulatory agencies. The group has extensive civil and criminal trial experience before administrative agencies, and state and federal courts.

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Stevens & Lee is a professional services provider with over 190 lawyers and non-lawyer professionals providing legal and business consulting services to regional, national and international clients. Stevens & Lee’s practices include: health care law; environmental law; labor and employment law; litigation; bankruptcy and workout; tax-exempt finance; corporate finance; securities, mergers and acquisitions; antitrust; intellectual property and e-commerce law; estates and trusts; financial services law; higher education and college finance; tax law; and real estate, housing and construction law. The firm maintains offices in Lancaster, Valley Forge, Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg, the Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA, Cherry Hill, NJ and Wilmington, DE.