Jim Owens, of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — August 1, 2010 — Jim Owens, Chair of the Healthcare Practice of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is a leading global law firm with offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe, providing innovative legal solutions to financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Paul Hastings advises clients in a broad array of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings. Jim is counsel to a variety of non- and for-profit healthcare businesses, including multi-facility health systems, freestanding district and community hospitals, non-profit medical foundations, ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis and other ancillary healthcare providers, health plans, medical device companies and large medical groups. He serves as both general counsel on routine matters for healthcare industry clients, and outside counsel on specialized issues and projects for clients with in-house legal departments. Jim has practiced healthcare law for more than 20 years and focuses on healthcare transactions and regulatory advice.

Jim has substantive experience in corporate and business law, healthcare mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, managed care contracting and healthcare joint ventures. He regularly counsels clients on compliance with state and federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws. He also has experience in healthcare contracting and physician integration and incentive compensation issues. Jim also serves as Paul Hastings' Chair of Global Attorney Development.

As a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, and past President of the Health Care Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Jim has lectured and authored publications for these and various other groups. He formerly served as Chair of the AHLA’s hospitals and health systems practice. He received a BA degree in Political Science from Emory University and a JD from Stetson University College of Law, where he was a notes editor for the Stetson Law Review. He is admitted to the state bars of California and Georgia.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .