Julia Z.
Associate General Counsel at Honest Health
- Role
- Associate General Counsel at Honest Health
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Julia Z.
Accomplished healthcare lawyer, with 11+ years of AmLaw 100 firm and in-house leadership experience, providing strategic, business and solutions-oriented legal advice to providers across the care continuum and their PE/VC investors (at fund and portco level), on healthcare law compliance (HIPAA, fraud/abuse, telehealth, licensing, corporate practice/fee-splitting and friendly PC/MSO implementation); value-based care (VBC); data privacy/security; AI; commercial contracting; transactional and corporate governance matters.Proven client relationship manager, deal lead counsel, with a dedicated healthcare practice since 2014. Adept at drafting and negotiating full range of vendor/provider contracts and deal documents, with 5+ years leading buy and sell-side healthcare deals, and as outside GC facilitating platform buildout/strategy. Strategic pivot in-house to VBC startups, quickly becoming an indispensable resource to, and go-to legal advisor/partner for, leadership, board, business development, IT/IS and other teams. Highlights include:(i) a key role in securing financing by year-end to fund core operations; and (ii) as acting GC for almost a month, leading org. through an important ACO participant deadline with 2 new clients. In private practice, Julia has led deals and deal teams by taking ownership of all legal workstreams, including structuring, financing, and drafting/negotiating deal documents, while guiding stakeholders through the process to closing.Outside the deal context, Julia has cultivated long-term relationships with healthcare orgs. as their go-to, outside GC or in-house legal/compliance resource. She has also helped build an efficient, effective legal function from the ground up at Arkos and Honest Health, and partnered closely with executives and stakeholders to advance growth opportunities, strategic initiatives and other business/financial goals (and related tax efficiencies)(e.g, patient/provider incentive programs), in compliant or low risk ways. Julia also regularly counsels healthcare companies in navigating the complex, evolving legal/regulatory landscape, and restructures their arrangements as appropriate to minimize compliance risk.Healthcare companies, investors and in-house colleagues value Julia\'s work ethic, proactive albeit practical approach, professional judgment and client-first mentality. In short, she takes ownership, solves problems, works with a sense of urgency and drives projects forward.
Experience
Associate General Counsel
Jun 2025 — Present · Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL, US
Education
University of Michigan
B.A., Spanish, Psychology, Pre-Law
2006 — 2010
Cranbrook Kingswood (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
High School, General Studies
2001 — 2005
Washington University in St. Louis
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law
2012 — 2014
University of Florida Frederic Levin College of Law
Juris Doctor, General Legal Studies
2011 — 2012
Skills
- Writing
- Resume Writing
- Legal Writing
- Litigation
- Research
- Legal Research
- Civil Litigation
- Computer Literate
- Contract Negotiation
- Commercial Litigation
- Spanish
- Trials
- Courts
- Westlaw
- Intellectual Property
- Microsoft Office
- Public Speaking
- Corporate Law
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