Robert D. Clark

Robert D. Clark is the Founder and Managing Member of ClarkLaw PLLC, a law firm located in Washington, DC. Among his responsibilities, Mr. Clark serves as legal counsel for the HealthWell Foundation, and has done so for many years. He is an entrepreneurial practitioner with four decades of innovative business, corporate, and transactional experience in private practice, and as in-house legal counsel, with premier national law firms and healthcare organizations.

Mr. Clark’s legal practice is primarily focused on the health care industry, and he represents for-profit and non-profit health care organizations and providers of all types. In that regard, his health care regulatory experience includes, among other things, counseling on state and federal laws governing fraud and abuse, self-referral prohibitions, facility and provider licensure and certification, provider and vendor contracting, managed care operations and contracting, HIPAA and privacy, and compliance program development and operation. Mr. Clark is also a seasoned health care transactional attorney, and over the years he has served as lead counsel in numerous sales, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and other transactions involving health care organizations and providers.

During his career, Mr. Clark served as managing partner of the health law practice of a national law firm, where he was responsible for the operation, management, strategic direction, and growth of the firm’s prominent health law practice. Mr. Clark also served as in-house General Counsel, or Assistant General Counsel, for health care organizations with a national footprint; and in that capacity he was responsible for over-seeing all legal issues and matters, including those involving corporate governance, transactions, contracting, risk management, litigation, compliance, security and privacy, employment and benefits, and management of legal staff and outside legal counsel.

Mr. Clark’s forty years of experience includes tenures at ClarkLaw PLLC (Founder and Managing Member); Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz (Shareholder and Co-Chair, Healthcare Transactions Team); Ober Kaler Grimes & Shriver (Shareholder); Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo (Shareholder and Managing Member of the Firm’s National Healthcare Practice); Vitas Healthcare Corporation (General Counsel); Manor Care, Inc. (Assistant General Counsel), among others.