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In 2012, The Campbell Firm PLLC celebrated its 10th Anniversary.  “What a milestone,” said Emily Campbell, the Firm’s founder and Managing Member.  In celebration of this important anniversary, the Firm, through its attorneys, provided more than 500 hours of pro bono service in 2012 and delivered a number of free lectures on legal issues to educate New York’s entrepreneurship community. On March 5, 2014, the Firm will turn 12. The Firm attributes its continuing success to its loyal clients and…

Ben Miller  joined The Campbell Firm PLLC as Counsel in 2012. Mr. Miller’s personal entrepreneurial experience often proves invaluable when advising pharmacists and pharmacy clients.  Having owned his own pharmacy, which was sold to a nationally-branded pharmacy chain and having worked in other retail pharmacy and hospital settings, Mr. Miller has extensive knowledge of the practical aspects of operating a pharmacy and brings his knowledge and experience to help address legal issues in medical-related fields. Recently, Mr. Miller advised a…

In 2012, The Campbell Firm PLLC welcomed Ben Miller to the Firm and expanded its bandwidth in the health care space. Mr. Miller is focused principally on health care-related legal matters. Notably, Mr. Miller is credited with delivering a well-received and important teleconference in the Summer of 2012 entitled “Policing Your Prescriptions: Narcotics & The DEA.” The seminar focused on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s stepped up crack-down on medical professionals that violate the law pertaining to controlled prescriptions. The…

In July, 2012, Emily Campbell, The Campbell Firm PLLC’s Managing Member, organized and delivered several important teleconferences as part of the Firm’s 10th Anniversary public outreach efforts. Among the programs: “Making and Enforcing Contracts,” a teleconference that focused on written business agreements and include a discussion of the concepts of consideration, the level of detail that should be in a contract, whether one attorney can draft neutrally if you’ve worked out all the details, what does all the boilerplate mean,…

The Campbell Firm PLLC launched its Spot The Issues video series on YouTube, beginning with the segment “Choosing Your Structure: S Corps vs. LLC’s.” This informative video provides information about what factors are important when deciding between the “S” corporation form and the limited liability company form. Subchapter S corporations are quite common, but they have many disadvantages when compared with limited liability companies. In this segment of Spot The Issues, the type and number of shareholders, the tax treatment,…

Ben Miller recently joined The Campbell Firm PLLC as Counsel. He represents clients in transactional matters, including entity formation, reviewing and preparing employment agreements and partnership agreements (including those among medical professionals), reviewing and preparing leases and other commercial agreements and financing matters; represents clients in connection with licensing and compliance, including, NPI, NABP, Medicaid & Medicare; and represents clients in connection with governmental and insurance company investigations, including Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance fraud, improper billing and improper dispensing…

The Campbell Firm PLLC served as counsel to Por Ti Familia, a Cayman Islands company with an operating subsidiary based in Lima, Peru, in connection with its first round of private equity investment.  The Company closed the financing round in April 2009 with U.S. and international investors.  The lead investor was Rose Tech Ventures. Por Ti Familia is a for-profit health care company, providing medical and pharmaceutical services to its customers.  Doctors are provided at an affordable cost and treat…

At the end of the Spring 2009 semester, New York Law School presented Emily Campbell with an award for five years of dedicated service as an Adjunct Professor of Law.  Ms. Campbell has been teaching Drafting Contracts, an upper level legal writing course, since the Fall of 2004. New York Law School is a leader in the trend to offer practical drafting courses for law students.  “These hands-on drafting courses provide students the opportunity to hit the ground running when…

In the Fall of 2009, Emily Campbell began her second year as a Baruch College Mentor for the Merrill Lynch Invitational Entrepreneurship Competition at Baruch College. Students seeking MBA’s from Baruch, as well as business school students from other institutions, including NYU, Columbia, Fordham and Pace, participate in the competition. Ms. Campbell was invited to participate in the Executives on Campus program after meeting Edward Rogoff, Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business at…

When it comes to being a Jane-of-All-Law-Trades, Emily Campbell is the first one to raise her hand to volunteer to learn new areas of practice.  Ms. Campbell began her career as a commercial litigator in 1992, and six years into her practice she transitioned into a corporate transactional practice.  When she founded The Campbell Firm PLLC in 2002 as a general practice firm, she included intellectual property law as part of the Firm’s practice because she had experience in the…