This is a preview of the fall 2026 edition of Cancer Legal Care's newsletter, The Occasional Connector: A newsletter for people who care all the time.
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Meet an Attorney
Brent, Staff Attorney
How long have you been practicing law?
I have practiced law in Minnesota for 25 years. Before coming to Cancer Legal Care, I worked with or for companies that created and administered health care benefits. My start with a Minnesota-based health care management company coincided with their effort to add health plans nationwide. I was involved in many parts of their growing business - writing plan documents, negotiating agreements with physicians and hospitals, resolving claim disputes, and managing benefit litigation.
I developed an interest in specialized health care and joined the company’s transplant division to help expand their centers of excellence network. I also worked to streamline access to legal services and make it easier to get legal review of documents and business practices.
I then started my own practice, offering custom contracting for clinically complex and financially catastrophic health events. I negotiated and drafted specific agreements for care rendered out-of-network.
I’ve now been at CLC for just over two years.
Why did you want to work for CLC?
A new challenge - a new opportunity.
My work at CLC allows me to apply my years of health care experience to patient-centric support. So, rather than advising health plans and insurance companies, I am helping patients and their families directly. This is an exciting new chapter in my legal career, and one that I thoroughly enjoy.
What's your favorite part of your job?
Delivering relief.
Having legal questions - and being afraid to ask a lawyer because of the stigma that lawyers are scary, hard to talk to, and expensive - only adds to the stress of having cancer. At CLC, you can talk to a lawyer one-on-one, you will get answers to your questions, and you won’t be charged. As a lawyer, there is nothing better than a client telling me that our conversation has relieved some of their stress.
What do you want people to know about Cancer Legal Care?
That we’re here and we can help and the service is free!
