Employment Agreements for Non-Physician Health Professionals: Legislative Trends and Developments, Key Provisions

Mr. Mocciolo is a veteran litigator with broad experience in complex, multidisciplinary cases across a wide spectrum of legal areas and client industries. His practice spans high-profile employment disputes and reputationally sensitive internal investigations, as well as bet-the-company commercial litigation, across the U.S. and overseas. He particularly relishes novel disputes requiring new legal thinking, and he has prevailed for clients in many issues of first impression, compiling a winning record in multiple federal appellate circuits. In the employment arena, Mr. Mocciolo handles emerging noncompete issues, whistleblower claims, and mass and class actions. He provides full-spectrum employment law and employee relations counseling to businesses large and small, and advises many international businesses on employment issues for their U.S. workforces, cross-border employment issues, and corporate and investor immigration. In the commercial arena, he litigates fraud and asset recovery, director-and-officer misconduct, shareholder oppression, antitrust and complex contract cases, business divorces, and all types of consumer class actions. In addition to his firm practice, Mr. Mocciolo was previously the lead employment law and litigator in the law department of a Fortune 500 insurer with global operations, and he draws on that in-house perspective to provide practical, outcome-focused advice to business clients. He volunteers in numerous bar association, community, and court capacities. 

Ms. Ward-Rannow zealously advocates for her clients in all aspects of dispute resolution, including attorney demand letters, charges of discrimination, arbitration, and litigation. She has extensive experience in many areas of employment law with a special focus on healthcare clients, including physician/provider employment contracts, Section 1557 compliance, HIPAA and state law patient/member privacy, and other niche issues impacting healthcare, health plan, and life sciences entities. Ms. Ward-Rannow provides advice and defense on matters involving all types of discrimination and retaliation, the Family and Medical Leave Act, workers’ compensation retaliation claims, noncompete/nonsolicitation, and unfair competition claims, breach of contract claims, and whistleblower retaliation claims. She also advises regarding employment policy development and revisions and routinely conducts workplace investigations. Prior to re-joining Ogletree in 2021, Ms. Ward-Rannow spent six years as in-house dispute resolution and employment counsel for an integrated health system. In this role, she provided strategic advice to all levels of company leaders, such as presidents and frontline supervisors on maintaining compliance with employment laws.