Leading Consumer Privacy Advocate Janlori Goldman Joins Manatt Health Solutions Addition Brings Expertise in HIPAA, Medical Records Confidentiality and Health Information Technology

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2006 — Manatt Health Solutions (MHS) the interdisciplinary policy and business advisory division of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, one of the nation's premier law and consulting firms announced today that Janlori Goldman has joined MHS as a Senior Advisor in its New York office. Ms. Goldman is joining MHS at a time when health care is undergoing a fundamental transformation as a result of the increasing use of digital health information. Ms. Goldman will join a team of Manatt professionals who advise a broad range of stakeholders with respect to how to ensure health care consumers have access to and control over their personal health information.

Ms. Goldman is one of the country’s leading medical privacy rights advocates. She has testified before the U.S. Congress numerous times and co-founded the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated to preserving free speech and privacy on the Internet. She has worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was a staff attorney and Director of the Privacy and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU, Ms. Goldman led efforts to protect people’s health, credit and financial information held by the government and helped to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act.

“Janlori Goldman’s dedication to ensuring that people’s healthcare information is safeguarded is beyond compare,” said Bill Bernstein, co-chair of Manatt’s Government and Regulatory Division, and Administrative Partner of the New York Office. “Janlori is one of the country’s foremost experts on this subject. She has been in the trenches fighting for privacy rights for over 20 years – from helping to pass legislation, to educating consumers and policy makers, to her numerous writings on the issue.”

Goldman’s Health Privacy Project was instrumental in helping to shape the privacy regulation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and has been active in monitoring the HIPAA privacy law’s enforcement, and promoting confidentiality policies and practices in the development of health information exchange networks.

“Coming to Manatt Health Solutions is the perfect compliment to my medical privacy rights practice,” said Ms. Goldman. “The professionals at Manatt represent some of the leading experts in the healthcare policy field. I am pleased to be joining such an impressive group of individuals.”

Ms. Goldman will continue to serve as Director of the consumer-advocacy group the Health Privacy Project, which she founded, and will remain a member of the Research Faculty at the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Ms. Goldman received her BA in 1979 from Macalester College and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1984.

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