Alison is an attorney in the United States and a Foreign Legal Consultant in Canada focusing her practice on health law. She regularly advises owners, operators, and managers of senior living communities, including assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and continuing care retirement communities, on regulatory and licensing matters, due diligence, and the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents in connection with multi-state transactions. Alison also counsels her clients on enforcement matters and regulatory questions that arise in the context of day-to-day operations. In addition to her senior living work, Alison advises a variety of health care providers such as hospitals, physician groups, pharmacies, clinical laboratories, and health care professionals on state and federal regulatory compliance matters, clinical research-related agreements, state disciplinary matters, HIPAA privacy concerns, fraud and abuse, reimbursement, and transactions.
Alison is barred to practice in four U.S. states and holds a Foreign Legal Consultant permit in Ontario, Canada. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and co-chair of One Day's Work, a student-funded public interest fellowship. She received her B.A. from Yale University. Before attending law school, Alison was a Paralegal Specialist in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Vaccine Litigation and taught English in southern France.