Anne Murphy is a Partner and Chair of the Chicago Health Law and Life Sciences Team. Ms. Murphy also serves as a member of the firm's national Health and Life Sciences Team, as well as its Global Compliance and Governance National Practice Team.
Ms. Murphy has more than 20 years of senior government and private sector experience in health law and litigation. Her practice focuses on resolution of complex regulatory, compliance, legal risk management, corporate governance and transactional matters, on behalf of health care and life sciences industry clients.
Ms. Murphy’s combined government and private sector legal experience offers unique insight into the legal needs of health industry clients. As senior counsel to the Illinois Attorney General, she advised her on a wide range of legal and policy matters, including high profile legislative and enforcement initiatives in the health care arena. These initiatives included false claims act, tax exemption, consumer fraud, antitrust, federal regulatory and state regulatory matters involving health care providers, health insurers, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and others in the health industry.
Immediately prior to serving the Illinois Attorney General, Ms. Murphy was chief counsel for the Illinois Department of Public Health, simultaneously serving as privacy officer, ethics officer, and general counsel to the Health Facilities Planning Board, and chair of the Governor's HIPAA Task Force. She chaired the 60-person legal team for the Congressionally-mandated TOPOFF 2 bioterrorism exercise, and regularly worked with the CDC and others on bioterrorism and public health emergency preparedness projects covering issues such as food security, successful statutory revision of isolation and quarantine standards for Illinois, a monkeypox outbreak, avian flu planning, and vaccine distribution plans. She served as the chief legal advisor for the state of Illinois on health facilities licensure and Medicare/Medicaid certification, the certificate of need process, the vital records system, the emergency medical services system, the perinatal center system, the trauma center system, environmental health regulation, food/drug/dairy regulation and communicable disease regulation.
Ms. Murphy was the practice leader for the Health Law Department at a large Chicago law firm. She represented health systems, large academic medical enters, provider-sponsored networks, managed care organizations, government entities, and health professional and trade associations across a broad spectrum of federal and state regulatory and transactional matters.
She was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and is a past visiting professor at the Institute for Health Law, Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. She frequently speaks and writes on health law topics.