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On this fifth and final episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Stephanie Webster moderates a discussion with health care partners Brett Friedman and Ben Wilson on two alternative partnership models for health care joint ventures: clinically integrated networks and professional services agreement models. They look at how these two alternatives both compare and differ from a traditional joint venture partnership as well as share their perspective on why health care entities might choose to enter into any one of these arrangements.

This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance focuses on FDA’s recently issued draft guidance, “Communications From Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products – Questions and Answers.” In this episode, hear from Kellie Combs, Josh Oyster, and Sarah Blankstein, industry-leading attorneys from Ropes & Gray’s life sciences regulatory and compliance team, as they delve into FDA’s new draft guidance to discuss key changes, constitutional considerations, and practical implications for the medical products industry.

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, co-hosts Hui Chen and Zach Coseglia go it alone in a one-to-one talk designed specifically for ethics and compliance professionals. In past episodes, guests have hailed the power of storytelling, and this week, Hui and Zach share personal stories—and learnings—from their decades of experience in the world of corporate ethics and compliance. Topics include: earning a seat at the table through relationship-building and diplomacy; why complication and complexity isn’t always bad, but a lack of clarity is; and why compliance is, and needs to be recognized as, an area of unique expertise. 

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio, asset management partner Melissa Bender sits down with litigation & enforcement partner Helen Gugel to discuss the evolving regulatory landscape for digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and related technologies, and potential impacts for clients operating in this space.

On this fourth episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Brett Friedman discusses key regulatory considerations for payor and provider alignment models, including clinically integrated networks and vertical integration transactions, as well as approaches for mitigating risk in markets increasingly scrutinized by federal and state regulators.

This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance focuses on FDA’s proposed rule that would affirm the Agency’s position that laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) are in vitro diagnostic products regulated as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”). In this episode, hear from Greg Levine, Josh Oyster, and Beth Weinman, industry-leading attorneys from Ropes & Gray’s life sciences regulatory and compliance team based in Washington, D.C., as they discuss FDA’s proposal to phase out the enforcement discretion policy it has historically applied to most LDTs. 

Business professor Daniel Beunza spent years as an observer on the trading floors of Wall Street, and documents his journey in his award-winning book Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room. On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, Dr. Beunza shares his surprising findings about ethics, morality, and leadership in these highly intense and competitive settings, and how his ethnographic method of “living with the natives” and “going with surprises” can inform how we understand organizations and behaviors.

On this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partners Tim McCrystal and Adrianne Ortega discuss recent trends in partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit entities, as well as important business, structural, and legal issues for nonprofit/for-profit joint ventures. 

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series A Word for Our Sponsors, hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Ropes & Gray tax partner Kendi Ozmon as well as tax counsel Gil Ghatan to discuss a topic of increasing interest among fund sponsors: establishing a vehicle for implementing their philanthropic and charitable giving goals. 

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way?, Shannon Kirk returns to the podcast to share “Better Ways” from multiple perspectives: As a thought leader on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in litigation and internal investigations, she highlights the importance of metrics as evidence of effectiveness; and as an award-winning author and lawyer, she explains why words and precision matter.