Eric J. Neiman

Eric Neiman leverages more than four decades of experience as a trusted health law advisor and litigation attorney to serve the needs of health care clients.

Eric has a robust health care regulatory compliance and litigation practice, with particular experience in behavioral health, provider operations, medical staff and peer review, crisis management, regulation/enforcement, managed care, risk management, and health care market issues. He also provides support to advance clients’ legislative interests.

His health care clients include not-for-profit providers, many of which are faith-based, and for-profit providers. Eric advises provider clients on their day-to-day operational issues and projects, helping ensure that they stay compliant with state and federal regulations.

In the behavioral health space, Eric regularly counsels hospitals,  health systems, and providers on their initiatives and services,  and serves as outside general counsel to the behavioral services lines of major health systems.

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A skilled litigator, experienced at every stage of dispute resolution, from fact investigation through trial and appeal, Eric has been the first chair in more than 100 jury trials. He also has extensive experience in bench trials, administrative hearings, commercial arbitrations, regulatory and licensing board proceedings, and investigations. Eric has represented clients in health care, business, professional liability, employment, product liability, and technology disputes.

Since 1991, Eric has served actively as a pro-tem circuit court judge.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Eric was the managing partner in the Portland office of a national law firm, a member of its Healthcare and Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practices, and chair of that firm’s Healthcare Regulatory Practice and Behavioral Health Practice. He was also a member of that firm’s Crisis Management Practice and was regularly called on to assist health care and other business clients in managing responses to critical events.

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• The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Health Care (2007 to 2024), “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation – Health Care (2023)
• Super Lawyers, Health Care and General Litigation (2007 to 2023)

Education

• University of Oregon School of Law (J.D., 1982)
  • Order of the Coif
• University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., Order of the Coif, 1978)

Professional & Community Involvement

• American Bar Association
  • Health Law Section
  • Section of Litigation
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• American Health Law Association
  • Behavioral Health Practice Group subcommittees chair and vice-chair (2015 to 2022)
• Oregon State Bar Health Law Section, Executive Committee (2015 to 2021)
• Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys

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