James Vincent Schuster

Substantive areas of Mr. Schuster’s health care practice include: fraud and abuse, anti-kickback; physician self-referral; false claims; HHS OIG self-disclosure; CLIA (exempt and high complexity laboratory); credentialing and accreditation; survey, certification and enforcement; EHR and other HITECH; ERISA (health and welfare benefits); HIPAA and other privacy, security and security breach notification; corporate due diligence and complex business transactions.

Mr. Schuster is former general counsel to one of this world’s largest multi-national branding and design firms. His passion in branding and design is representing its small and mid-sized firms and individual artists and creators. Mr. Schuster takes an aggressive, yet practical, approach for his clients. He has a track record successfully negotiating branding and design deals for clients with some of this world's larges companies.

Substantive areas of Mr. Schuster’s internet/technology practice include: software licensing; software source code commenting; open source licensing; software as a service (“SaaS”); e-commerce; website development; source code escrows; outsourcing; original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”)/value-added reseller (“VAR”); hardware acquisition; employment and complex business transactions; copyrights; covenants not to compete; non-solicitation; non-interference; confidentiality and non-disclosure.