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411 East Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 2350
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

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(414) 277-5171
Fax: (414) 978-8971


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  Privately Held Business Group
  Corporate Services
  Tax-Exempt Organizations
  Health Law
  Health & Life Sciences


Professional Experience
Michael Levey’s practice focuses on health care professionals, including physicians and dentists, medical and dental groups, tax-exempt organizations, and privately held businesses. His experience includes:
  • Handling life cycle events of professional practices, including formation and maintenance of Wisconsin service corporations; drafting, reviewing and negotiating of employment agreements; sales and purchases of practice assets, practice buy-ins and mergers, practice separations and dissolutions. He is a frequent speaker to physicians on business matters relating to professional practices.

  • Serving as outside legal counsel to a variety of nonstock, nonprofit corporations exempt from federal income tax under various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

  • Representing privately held businesses in connection with general business matters.
Education and Honors
  • University of Florida Levin College of Law (LL.M., 1983)
  • University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1982)
  • University of Michigan (B.A., magna cum laude, 1979)
Bar Admissions
Florida, 1984
Wisconsin, 1983
Michigan, 1982

Professional Recognition
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (2007-present: Health Care Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law).

Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated.

Professional and Civic Activities
State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).

American Bar Association (Member).

American Health Lawyers Association (Member).

Milwaukee Bar Association (Member).

Selected Presentations/Publications
  • “Physician Employment Agreements and Negotiations,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Transition to Practice program sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2011.

  • “Transition to Practice Program,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2010.

  • “Negotiating Physician Employment Agreements,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Pediatric Otolaryngologists, 2009.

  • Making Your Employment Agreement Anatomically Correct,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Orthopedics, 2009.

  • “Transition to Practice Program,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2009.

  • “How to Negotiate an Effective Employment Agreement,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Surgery, 2008.

  • “Transition to Practice Program,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2008.

  • “Making Your Employment Agreement Anatomically Correct,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Orthopedics, 2008.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2007.

  • “Evaluating Practice Alternatives,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Surgery, 2007.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2006.

  • “Employment Agreements and Choice of Entities for Physicians,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Gastroenterology Fellows, 2006.

  • “Practice Management—But What Kind of Practice?,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical Society of Wisconsin, Practice Management 101 Program, 2006.

  • “Contracts: How to Negotiate an Effective Employment Agreement,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Anesthesiology, 2006.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2005.

  • “Evaluating Practice Alternatives,“ Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Surgery, 2004.

  • “Contracts: How to Negotiate an Effective Employment Agreement,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Anesthesiology, 2004.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2004.

  • “Negotiating Physician Employment Agreements,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Retreat 2004.

  • “Contracts: How to Negotiate an Effective Employment Agreement,” Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Anesthesiology, 2003.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2003.

  • “Physician Employment Contracts,” State Medical Society of Wisconsin/Medical College of WI Resident Program, 2002.

  • “Transition to Practice,” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2002.

  • “Current Tax Topics of Interest to Tax-Exempt Health Care Institutions,” Wisconsin Chapter, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 2002.