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Practice Area
- Business Law
Additional Practice Area
- Corporate
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- New York
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- New York, 1973
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- Washington
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- Washington, D.C., 1973
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Professional Experience
- Partner
- Ropes & Gray
- Current
- Current
- Alan has served as outside counsel to a number of pharmaceutical and medical device firms, with a particular emphasis on issues within the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He regularly lectures and publishes extensively on FDA-related issues. Among his publications are The Legislative History of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, as well as articles on the Orphan Drug Act, patent certification under the Hatch-Waxman Act, and FDA regulation of pharmaceutical advertising and promotional materials.Upon graduating from law school, Alan served in the Office of the General Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he was a trial and appellate lawyer and legal advisor to several FDA bureaus. Subsequently, he was legislative assistant to the late Senator Jacob Javits and Counsel to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, where he concentrated on a wide variety of health regulatory matters, consumer protection and administrative law issues, including playing a major role in one of the first medical records privacy initiatives.Alan's practice at Ropes & Gray has involved counseling clients, and representing them at the FDA and in Congress, on many of the critical issues that affect the pharmaceutical industry. He is a recognized expert on issues that arise under the Hatch-Waxman Act, as well as on issues involving pharmaceutical marketing, promotion and education. He also has extensive experience in biological products, including the issue of follow-on biologics, in food additive approvals, and in over the counter drugs and procedures to switch them from prescription to non-prescription status.
Education
- Columbia Law School
- J.D.
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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- University of Connecticut
- B.A.
- with Honors
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Websites & Blogs
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