Litigation Lead, Regulatory Healthcare Consulting

Required:

• Formally qualified and accepted by an administrative law judge or hearing officer as an expert witness in CON, healthcare regulatory, or other administrative law hearings
• Testified in a minimum of 3–5 administrative law hearings (7 or more preferred)
• Direct experience with Certificate of Need processes, review criteria, and state health planning frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to survive rigorous cross-examination and defend analytical methodology under adversarial pressure
• Experience authoring expert reports or pre-filed written testimony for administrative proceedings
• Hospital financial modeling and feasibility analysis experience
• Deep understanding of hospital and health system operations, service line dynamics, and utilization data
• Familiarity with healthcare data sources: CMS datasets, AHA data, state health planning databases, and similar

Preferred:

• CON hearing experience in North Carolina (strongly preferred); multi-state experience a plus
• Background in a healthcare consulting firm
• Experience with CON opposition work — comments, responses, counter-arguments
• Ability to be qualified as an expert in both need analysis and financial feasibility as distinct subject matter areas
• Experience mentoring or developing staff on litigation-related analytical work

Who Thrives Here

You are:

• Composed and steady under pressure while in a hearing room, in a deposition, and in the weeks of preparation that precede them
• Analytically precise, with the ability to hold a complex position under sustained cross-examination
• A strategic partner to attorneys who helps shape the case, not just your testimony
• Someone who writes clearly and deliberately, knowing your expert report becomes part of the legal record
• A developer of people who can transfer deep expertise without losing rigor
• Direct, confident, and credible — in writing, in testimony, and in front of clients