Lynn Garson

Lynn S. Garson is counsel in the Atlanta office of BakerHostetler, where she facilitates a range of transactions and contracts for health care organizations. She has experience with physician practice acquisitions, employment and related agreements, clinical trial agreements and regulatory research. In addition, Ms. Garson is a mental health advocate and author. In July 2012, she published Southern Vapors, a memoir describing her journey from major clinical depression to recovery, and she has since spoken widely, including for a TEDx Emory talk titled, “Reforming the Approach to Mental Health in the U.S.,”and she has made numerous presentations to private and public organizations. Ms. Garson assisted a multi hospital system in the acquisition of several large medical practice. She also has taken primary responsibility in managing acquisitions by a multi-hospital system of small medical practices, including negotiating and drafting documents from letter-of-intent stage through final documentation. In addition, she advises a multi-hospital system on physician service agreements, consulting and employment contracts, leases, vendor contracts and clinical trial agreements, and she reviews, negotiates and drafts medical director and other agreements with non-employee physicians. Ms. Garson received her B.A.in 1975 from Tulane University and her J.D. in 1981 from Emory University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and was Notes and Comments Editor of the Emory Law Review.