John D. Gleason

John Gleason chairs the firm’s Healthcare and Employment Practice Areas. His practice includes the representation of physicians and other health care providers in the organization and operation of their practices, the development of employment and recruitment agreements with practices and hospitals, the regulatory issues arising from the expansion of practices and their affiliations with other entities, and licensing issues affecting individual health care providers.

His practice also includes counseling businesses on employment matters, addressing issues ranging from the impact of employment discrimination laws on operational decisions, to compliance with wage and hour laws. He appears before Maine agencies on employment matters involving businesses and licensing matters involving Maine physicians.  He also serves as local counsel on employment actions in federal and state court.

John is recognized as a 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” in the practice area of  Health Care Law in Portland and was recently selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2022 in the field of Health Care Law.

Specialties:

• development of provider employment agreements
• formation and operation of new medical practices
• healthcare joint ventures and affiliations
• development of new medical and surgical facilities

We also represent individual physicians and other providers on such matters as the development of their employment agreements with practices and hospitals, to disciplinary matters before employer and licensing boards. Our attorneys have served as faculty on various educational panels in the area of fraud and abuse, antitrust, certificate of need and employment.