Paul Hales is a graduate of Columbia University Law School and is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. He manages an international health privacy law consulting practice and is the author of The HIPAA E-Tool, Internet-based, easy to use compliance software that is fully aligned with all 180 HIPAA Audit protocols and has separate editions for health care providers, health plans, business associates and third party administrators. Before specializing exclusively on health privacy law he worked in private practice as a litigator and appellate lawyer on complex civil cases and also served as outside general counsel for business, healthcare and nonprofit organizations.