Printable FormatHeidi Schult Gregory
Member
Ms. Gregory is a member of the firm, co-leader of the Health Care Industry Team, and practices in the Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group. She is listed in New York Super Lawyers in the areas of health care and business litigation. She has extensive court experience representing hospitals, health care providers, nursing homes, residential treatment facilities, professionals, insurance companies, municipal corporations, school districts, and large and small businesses in state and federal court. Ms. Gregory has successfully litigated a variety of medical malpractice and negligence cases and has handled numerous guardianship and civil commitment proceedings.
Ms. Gregory regularly counsels health care clients in areas of risk management, medical ethics, clinical operations, statutory and regulatory compliance, professional discipline, credentialing, peer review and health information management. Ms. Gregory also provides statutory and regulatory compliance training seminars on a number of subjects, including HIPAA, guardianships, Mental Hygiene Law, end of life care and the new Family Health Care Decisions Act.
Prior to joining Harris Beach in 1996, Ms. Gregory was in private practice where she focused primarily on civil litigation, including medical and dental malpractice and personal injury defense.
Professional & Community Activities
In addition to the practice of law, Ms. Gregory is a member, by judicial appointment, of the Fourth Department Appellate Division’s Judicial Hearing Officer Screening Committee. She is also an appointed member of the Monroe County E-Filing Committee.
Ms. Gregory has been a long-standing member of the Monroe County Bar Association and is currently serving as a Trustee on the Board of Directors. In the past, she served on the MCBA’s Nominating Committee and was Co-Chair of its Membership Committee for two years.
She is also active with the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA), having served on the Board of Directors for 5 years. Ms. Gregory served two terms as Secretary, followed by three years as Incoming President, President and Past President. In addition, Ms. Gregory participates on GRAWA’s Finance Committee and the Family and Careers Committee. In the past, she assisted GRAWA with community-wide surveys regarding gender equity in the workplace.
Ms. Gregory is on the Board of Associate Trustees for Siena College in Loudonville, New York. She is the leader of Junior Girl Scout Troop 758 in Penfield and manages one of the Penfield Youth basketball teams. She is also active within her church, Faith Lutheran Church, having served on Church Council, the Board of Directors for Faith Child Care and Nursing School, the Pastoral Search Committee, the Sunday Schedule Task Force and currently as a Lay Reader.
Ms. Gregory also serves as the legal advisor to a large local health system’s Ethics Committee and its Institutional Review Board.
Ms. Gregory chairs the firm’s Rochester office Community Involvement Committee, which assists in organizing and fostering attorney and administrative personnel participation in community-related and charitable events.
Recognized as a New York State Super Lawyer
