Mr. Manson is a member of the firm's Health Care Practice Group and concentrates his practice on representation of hospitals, long term care facilities and other providers in regulatory, payment, general corporate and litigation matters. Mr. Manson received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from Columbia University .               

In his litigation practice, Mr. Manson has represented health care providers and their associations in challenges to State and Federal reimbursement systems, including both the Illinois Hospital Association and the Illinois Health Care Association in challenges to the Illinois Medicaid system. He has represented providers in Medicare matters before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board and the Federal Courts. He argued and won a case concerning the First Amendment in the United States Supreme Court. In his corporate practice, Mr. Manson has represented merger partners, buyers, and sellers of hospitals and hospital systems, nursing homes, physician practices and health maintenance organizations. His regulatory practice includes: Fraud & Abuse, state licensure, JCAHO matters, and medical staff matters. He has represented providers in employment matters, antirust litigation, tax issues, not-for-profit issues, and in financing transactions.   

Mr. Manson has served as General Counsel, Office of Federal Law and Regulation, of the American Hospital Association. Also on the national level, Mr. Manson has served as the Chairman of the now Health Law Section of the American Bar Association and has been that Section's representative to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. Within Illinois , Mr. Manson has been President of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and a member of the Board of Directors of the First Illinois chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He was editor of Illinois Healthcare Law , and is a quarterly contributor to The Administrator's Advocate of the Illinois Nursing Home Administrator's Association.