Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5256
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: gts@cabaniss.com 

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Areas of Practice:

Healthcare and Exempt
     Organizations
Corporate Practice
Contract Litigation

Education:

L.L.M., Taxation, University of
     Alabama School of Law, 1996
 
J.D., Cumberland School of Law,
     1977
 
Emory University, B.A. 1974
 

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (1977)
All Alabama U.S. District Courts
     (1980)
U. S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh
     Circuit (1997)
U.S. Supreme Court (1983)
 

G. Thomas Sullivan

Since the early 1990s, Mr. Sullivan's practice has primarily involved representation of healthcare providers.  He frequently represents a for profit corporation which owns and operates inpatient psychiatric hospitals in its activities in Alabama. He has served as counsel for a number of individual physicians and surgeons in contract  and corporate matters, joint ventures, operation and acquisition of ambulatory surgery centers and defense of professional licensure and disciplinary proceedings. He serves as counsel for a Medicaid managed care organization which operates the Medicaid maternity healthcare program pursuant to a federal waiver and is owned and operated by ten Birmingham area hospitals which render Medicaid funded maternity services in the eight county service district in and around Birmingham. He handles acquisitions  for a non profit provider which owns and operates numerous LTCH, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities around Alabama. He represents an acute care hospital owned by a local Health Care Authority in physician contracting and relations with its medical staff.  He has served as principal external counsel for a 501(c)(3) healthcare organization with three hospitals in the Birmingham area in transactions and joint ventures, representing the interest of the corporation in bond financings and advising the corporation with respect to its compliance program. He represents two faith based non profit hospital systems in Alabama in various tax exemption matters.

Having begun his practice as a prosecuting attorney, he has applied that experience to representation of various hospital and physician clients in actions asserted against them under the False Claims Act arising out of billing, Stark and Anti Kickback claims. His practice has also involved negotiating and drafting business contracts and corporate transactions, as well as related litigation involving contract based claims. In litigation related matters. He has appeared on behalf of clients in arbitrations, trials or appellate proceedings in Tennessee, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and Oklahoma in addition to Alabama. In the course of representing television personality and former professional basketball player Charles Barkley, several of those trials were conducted on the Court TV Network.

He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and serves as a member of its mediation and arbitration panels. He also serves on the commercial arbitration panel of the American Arbitration Association and is a member of the Association’s Alabama Advisory Counsel. He has served as an arbitrator individually and on panels in proceedings conducted in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee, where he served on a panel which resolved a number of claims incident to administration of the TennCare Medicaid program.

He is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association and served for a number of years on the Grievance Committee, which is its professional disciplinary committee, as well as the Ethics and Fee Arbitration Committees at other points during his career. He is admitted to practice in State and Federal courts in Alabama, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.