Julie is a Member in the firm's Corporate & Securities Section.
She regularly represents clients in the acquisition, licensing, and disposition of technology and other intellectual property assets. Julie has significant experience structuring and negotiating domestic and international contracts for technology development, licensing and distribution, hardware and systems acquisition, outsourcing, manufacturing, and other information technology and complex commercial transactions.
In the health care sector, Julie represents clients facing specific security, HIPAA, and other regulatory challenges. She has represented companies selling technology to hospitals, health plans, physician practice groups, and other health-related entities as well as hospitals and other health-related organizations who are procuring technology systems and related services. In some representative engagements, Julie:
· Counseled a state health insurance authority in the procurement of outsourced customer service center services and third-party administrative services, including services related to enrollment in insurance plans, database management, and software development for online enrollment capabilities.
· Counseled a prominent integrated health system, comprising academic medical centers, community hospitals, and other related entities, in the procurement of new system-wide administrative and revenue cycle platform, including the structuring and negotiation of license, development, implementation, hosting, and support arrangements.
· Provided counsel on an advanced Web-based care management platform, and handled negotiations of strategic license arrangements with large health plans, and exclusive distributor relationships and other marketing alliances, on behalf of an innovative health IT software company.
Julie has also represented technology clients in connection with initial organization and financing, the sale or expansion of new businesses, and compensation and other employment and business counseling matters.
In 2009, Julie was named to Nightingale's Healthcare News' annual list of Outstanding Healthcare Information Technology Lawyers. She was also recognized in 2009 by Women's Business Boston as one of the "Top Ten Women Lawyers in Boston."
She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York and is a member of the Computer Law Association and the Women's Bar Association. She is also a member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council's Healthcare Advisory Board. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Wellesley College in 1984 and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1992), where she served as Articles Editor of the Comparative Labor Law Journal and was awarded the Herman J. Lazarus prize for best comment on a comparative labor law topic. She served as a judicial law clerk for the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Julie speaks Swedish and French fluently. She also has a working knowledge of Spanish.
Industries
Information Technology
Internet & e-Commerce
Telecommunications & Media
Health Care
Life Sciences