Statewide law firm Broad and Cassel today announced Shachi Mankodi, senior counsel in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office, has been appointed to serve as vice chair of the Broward County Bar Association’s (BCBA) Women in Leadership Committee.

Mankodi will work closely with BCBA staff to further professionalism in the practice of law throughout Broward County and organize continuing legal education seminars of benefit to the greater membership and community at large. She will serve a one-year term.

As a member of the firm’s Health Law Practice Group, Mankodi represents individuals and organizations in licensure disputes and proceedings as well as compliance and reimbursement matters involving the Medicaid and Medicare programs. She also has been involved in coordinating state health care policy for the Office of the Governor and has provided legislative policy analysis and recommendations to executive agencies.

Active in various community and professional organizations, Mankodi is a member of the South Asian Bar Association and IMPACT Young Ambassadors for Memorial and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundations, among others. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and earned her juris doctor from Florida State University College of Law.

Broad and Cassel has built one of the most experienced and diversified Health Law Groups in the Southeastern United States. The firm has more lawyers certified in Health Law by the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization & Education than any other firm. Several of the firm’s health lawyers are certified by the Health Care Compliance Association in Health Care Compliance and are Certified Dispute Resolvers with the American Health Lawyers Association.

The Health Law Practice Group will host its sixth annual Health Forum in Hollywood Sept. 7. More information on this event as well as industry and attorney news can be found on Broad and Cassel’s Health Law Blog at http://www.healthlawfla.com or on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/healthlawfla.   

Broad and Cassel established its Fort Lauderdale office in 1987. The firm’s Fort Lauderdale attorneys focus their practices primarily in the following areas of law: Health Law and Litigation, Appellate and Constitutional Law, White Collar Defense and Compliance, Commercial Litigation, and Corporate and Securities. Broad and Cassel, founded on Jan. 1, 1946, has more than 170 lawyers and 200 support personnel located in nine offices throughout the state of Florida. The firm has extensive experience in a wide variety of corporate practice areas and industries. For more information, please visit us online at http://www.broadandcassel.com or on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BroadandCassel.