Vickie B. Ahlers

Vickie B. Ahlers represents health care clients with respect to a variety of issues including regulatory, transactional and contracting issues, HIPAA, medical staff and allied health professionals issues, organizational compliance, and compliance with FDA medical device regulations. Vickie also focuses her practice on privacy and data protection issues for businesses across all industry sectors. She has handled more than 300 breach analyses and response efforts, ranging from preparation and evaluation of privacy & data protection processes, incident evaluation & response, and regulatory enforcement defense.

Prior to joining the firm, Vickie served as a clerk for the Honorable James L. Foreman, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. In 1997, she also served as a clerk for the United States Attorney’s Office.

Vickie is the Chair of the Firm’s Health Care section and leads the firm’s Privacy & Data Protection group. She has spoken to numerous industry groups such as the American Hospital Association and the Health Care Compliance Association on the topic of privacy and security for healthcare providers, insurers and employers. She has been listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (© 2013). Since 2007, Vickie has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Health Care Law and was named Best Lawyers’ Omaha Healthcare Lawyer of the Year for 2013 and 2020.