Cincinnati, OH – Melvin S. Shotten, partner of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, has been included in the Inaugural Edition of the Guide to the Leading US Healthcare Lawyers published by the London-based Legal Media Group. The Guide is comprised of a select group of highly recommended U.S. health care lawyers and serves as an excellent national and international networking resource for those looking for such specialty counsel.

Shotten, a resident of Hyde Park, is Chair of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group and primarily represents private practice providers, hospitals and other health care institutions on a variety of complex health care and regulatory issues. He has also advised and represented financial institutions and borrowers as to loan and financing alternatives and represents a regional federal home loan bank system in commercial relationships with over 750 member-institutions.

Shotten is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and was named an Ohio Super Lawyer by Cincinnati Magazine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan College of Engineering, his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan College of Law (where he served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review) and graduated from both programs with honors.

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental law, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.