Fennemore Craig, a leading Mountain West business law firm, announced Scott Altes, a director in the firm’s Phoenix office, has been appointed the new Practice Group Chair of the firm’s Health Care Litigation and Regulation practice group.

“Scott possesses deep knowledge of the law relating to health care litigation and regulation,” said Steve Good, managing partner of Fennemore Craig. “We are proud to have him lead and grow this area of practice, and we congratulate Scott on his new leadership role.”

Altes has broad litigation and trial experience in complex commercial and tort litigation matters, with an emphasis in medical negligence and professional liability cases. He has represented hospitals, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers in high-exposure medical negligence and wrongful death matters. In addition, he is the firm’s chief data privacy officer and represents clients on federal and state data privacy requirements, data breach prevention, investigation and response as well as data security policies and training. Altes earned his J.D. from Duke University and his B.A. from the University of Houston.

Fennemore Craig’s Health Care Litigation practice group serves a range of clients within the health care and bioscience industries. The firm has extensive experience representing for-profit and non-profit health care clients in a broad range of areas, including medical negligence defense, commercial litigation, antitrust, e-discovery, business and financing transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, governmental relations, licensure, credentialing and other professional matters, including intellectual property, employment, immigration and labor relations.