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Linas J. Grikis is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Chicago office. As a member of the Health Department, Linas maintains a general health law practice, focusing on the representation of hospitals, health systems and other health care clients. Linas routinely provides regulatory and transactional representation of hospitals and other health care entities in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions matters. He has negotiated complex, multi-party contracts on behalf of clients, including various types of pharmaceutical service agreements.
Additionally, Linas advises hospital and health system clients on regulatory compliance with licensure, accreditation, other state and federal regulatory matters, corporate governance and compliance issues.
Linas was honored by the University of Tulsa College of Law as the 2006 Distinguished Practitioner in Residence. While attending the University of Tulsa College of Law, Linas was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Tulsa Law Journal. Linas was also an Articles Editor for the Annals of Health Law Journal at Loyola University - Chicago School of Law.
Linas is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola University - Chicago, where he teaches the health law section of the Law School's legal writing program. Linas is co-author of a chapter on resident contracting issues that appears in the 2006 Edition of Advising Elderly Clients and Their Families published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Linas also co-authored a chapter of the book entitled "Complete Guide to Nonprofit Organizations." The Chapter is entitled "Current Governance Issues for Healthcare Organizations" published in 2007 by the Civic Research Institute. In addition, he has authored articles that have appeared in the Tulsa Law Journal and Matthew Bender's Health Care Monthly.
Linas was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1996. Linas is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Quarterly Lecture Committee of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys for 2006.
Education:
University of Tulsa Law School, J.D., 1996
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M., 1997
University of Kansas, B.A., 1991 | 