Jim Pool is a Shareholder and Chair of the firm's Health Care and Charitable Foundations -Tax Exempt Organizations practices. He represents all types of providers and payors nationwide, regarding health care regulatory, tax, compliance and other matters. He also represents a large number of tax exempt entities both inside and outside the health care industry. Jim is regularly consulted regarding a wide range of both health care and tax exempt issues. He is a frequent speaker on health care, corporate compliance and tax exempt entities topics.

Jim regularly counsels his clients regarding the following:

• Joint ventures
• Fraud and abuse (including the Anti-Kickback Statute)
• Stark Law
• Medical staff bylaws and credentialing matters
• Professional services and employment agreements with physicians
• Integration, co-management and affiliations between physician practice groups and hospitals/health systems
• Medicare reimbursement issues
• Management services arrangements
• HIPAA Privacy/Security
• Corporate structure and governance issues
• State licensure and other regulatory issues
• The Joint Commission
• Governmental investigations
• Antitrust issues
• Executive compensation
• Asset purchases and other significant transactions
• Tax-exempt organization issues
• Hospital and physician group management and organization
• Development and maintenance of corporate compliance programs
• Internal and external audits and investigations

The Best Lawyers in America named Jim "Lawyer of the Year" for 2015 in Non-Profit/Charities Law. He has been listed by The Best Lawyers in America in Health Care Law and Non-Profit/Charities Law since 2006 and by Alabama Super Lawyers since 2012 for Health Care. He is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.

He received his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. His additional graduate degrees include an S.T.M. and a M. Div. from Yale Divinity School. He received his B.A. cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College.