Schabes Appointed to ACHA Legal Committee

CLEVELAND, OHIO – December 14, 2007 – Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP is pleased to announce that Alan E. Schabes has been appointed to the American Health Care Association’s Legal Committee where he will serve a two-year term.

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for more than 1.5 million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.

Mr. Schabes is a partner in Benesch’s Health Care Practice Group.He focuses his practice on health care law, including the representation of long-term care and residential care facilities; health care private equity and venture capital investment firms; physician groups; integrated delivery systems; ancillary service providers including institutional pharmacy companies, health maintenance organizations, and preferred provider organizations; Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters; fraud and abuse; asset and stock acquisitions; and joint venture formation.

With offices in Cleveland, Columbus, Philadelphia, Shanghai and Wilmington, Benesch’s practice and industry groups include Business Reorganization, the China Group, Compensation & Benefits, Construction, Corporate & Securities, Estate Planning and Probate, Franchising, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Loan Transactions, Polymer Industry, Private Equity, Public Law, Real Estate & Environmental, Tax, and Transportation & Logistics. For more information, visit www.bfca.com.