Overview

Sharon Peters is an experienced employment and health care attorney with a focus on strategic compliance and creative risk management.

Hospitals and other health care providers turn to Sharon for advice on challenging patient and workforce issues, including difficult discharges, workplace violence prevention and response, consent for treatment, and health care decision-making, to name a few. Additionally, hospitals and physician leadership seek Sharon’s advice concerning medical staff, credentialing, peer review, and quality improvement matters. She provides counsel to medical staffs from early in the investigation process through fair hearings.

In addition, Sharon has a robust management-side employment practice. She advises and defends employers on a wide range of employment law issues, including disability accommodations, leaves of absence, discrimination and harassment, restrictive covenants, and terminations.

Sharon is an experienced workplace investigator, often retained to conduct sensitive, high-profile assessments and provide evaluative recommendations for executive leadership on liability avoidance and workplace culture.

A trusted advisor and problem solver, Sharon is known for working with her clients to develop creative ways to efficiently resolve and avoid risk. When litigation cannot be avoided, she approaches a case aggressively, with attention to detail and the objective of preventing a trial by securing an early dismissal. Her early investigative and crisis management strategies help clients manage or avert altogether liability exposure and media scrutiny that can tarnish their reputations.

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A frequent speaker, Sharon enjoys working with clients to help them learn about the law and develop best practices for compliance in a way that works best for their business objectives.

Sharon serves on Epstein Becker Green’s National Health Care and Life Sciences Steering Committee. Before joining Epstein Becker Green, she was a partner of a national law firm and a member of its Healthcare and Labor & Employment Practices.

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Experience

  • Conducted a comprehensive and sensitive workplace investigation for a Federally Qualified Health Center regarding executive conduct, including potential retaliation and conflicts of interest.
  • Obtained a dismissal for a health system in a federal lawsuit brought by a professional staff member challenging a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
  • Conducted a confidential investigation related to allegations of bullying by leadership for a large employer.
  • Represented hospital medical staffs through peer review matters, including fair hearings, counsel through corrective actions, and policy revisions.
  • Worked closely with the leadership of various health care systems on such challenging issues as abuse reporting and investigations; informed consent issues for minors, adults, or incapacitated patients; and end-of-life decision-making.
  • Secured a defense jury verdict in a whistleblower retaliation case in Oregon federal court for a trucking company.
  • Obtained a jury verdict in a race discrimination and retaliation case in Oregon state court (Multnomah County) for a regional construction company.
  • Successfully defended a local hospital through trial in a lawsuit involving a physician’s breach of an employment agreement and accompanying claims, including recovery of significant defense attorney fees for the hospital.
  • Obtained summary judgment in two Oregon state employment retaliation cases based on the defense argument that timing alone is not always sufficient to support the plaintiff’s prima facie case.

Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America, Employment Law—Management (2024 to 2025), Health Care Law (2025)
  • The Legal 500 United States, Healthcare: Health Insurers (2024)

Credentials

Education

  • University of Louisville School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2001)
  • University of Dayton (B.S., cum laude, 1998)

Bar Admissions

  • Oregon
  • Washington State

Professional & Community Involvement

  • American Health Lawyers Association, Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review Practice Group
  • Association of Workplace Investigators
  • Maybelle Center, Board of Directors
  • Oregon Association of Medical Staff Services
  • Washington Association of Medical Staff Services
  • Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys

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