J. Michael Scully

Biography:

Mike Scully is in the firm's Litigation/ADR Department, Health Law Practice Group, and Schools, Colleges, and Universities Practice Group. He specializes in commercial and other civil litigation. He has handled numerous complex business litigation matters, including significant contract, health care, antitrust, civil rights, ERISA, and consumer protection cases, both in the federal and state courts.

Mr. Scully is a former member of the Massachusetts Bar Association Health Law Section Council, and is active in community affairs. He is a volunteer with the Springfield School Volunteers reading program, Junior Achievement, and a local Troop of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a business representative on the School Centered Decision Making Team of the Brightwood Elementary School in Springfield. He has also worked with the Community United Way of Pioneer Valley and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.

Related Professional Experience:

After law school, Mr. Scully worked as a law clerk for the Justices of the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Boston, Massachusetts.

Representative Experience:

Represented numerous health care institutions and medical providers in a variety of litigation, regulatory, and business-related matters.

Represented health insurers in various litigation and regulatory compliance matters, including matters relating to the structure of benefit plans.

Successfully handled significant cases involving hospital and physician staffing, hospital billing and collection practices, and the confidentiality of medical information.

Successfully handled cases addressing the discovery process, and the rules of civil procedure.

Successfully handled large antitrust and consumer protection actions.

Significant litigation experience in representing banks, including cases related to lender liability and check fraud.

Significant experience in litigating matters related to land use and development.

Represented named parties, and class members, in various class-action lawsuits.

Represented both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury cases.