Attorney Bio's

Bruce E. Wood

Mr. Wood concentrates his practice on the representation of physicians and other health care providers (including surgery centers, dentists, physical therapists, podiatrists, and oral surgeons), group practices, and network organizations such as physician organizations and IPAs. He also regularly practices in the areas of commercial real estate, banking, and sophisticated corporate transactions, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions.  He has extensive experience in Medicare fraud and abuse compliance, physician practice acquisitions, managed care contract negotiations, HMO/IPA legal issues, and antitrust. Mr. Wood has lectured for the New York State Bar Association, the Medical Group Management Association and various medical societies, and has authored numerous articles in the areas of health care and corporate law. He is a regular columnist for The Bulletin, published by the Onondaga County Medical Society and co-author of Medical/Legal Newsletter published jointly by Wood & Smith, PC and the Onondaga County Medical Society. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Kidney Foundation of Central New York. Mr. Wood received a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1980. Mr. Wood is also a member of the Florida bar and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Bruce A. Smith

Mr. Smith concentrates in the corporate and health care areas. In the health care area, he represents individual physicians, physician groups, several regional IPAs, ambulatory surgery centers and other health-related organizations in a variety of health care, financing and business matters. Mr. Smith has expertise in fraud and abuse, self-referral, antitrust, Medicare compliance, managed care and other health-specific legal areas that impact whether, and on what terms, business transactions in the health care area can be undertaken. Mr. Smith is a regular author for The Bulletin, a quarterly publication of the Medical Societies of Oneida, Herkimer, Madison, Chenango and Oswego Counties and has lectured on health care and business topics to, among other audiences, the Medical Group Management Association, New School of Social Research, the Syracuse University Tax Institute, the New York State Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and various county Medical Societies. He is also co-author of Medical/Legal Newsletter published jointly by Wood & Smith, PC and the Onondaga County Medical Society Mr. Smith is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Smith received a J.D., cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1981 where he was a member of the SYRACUSE LAW REVIEW.

Michael J. Sarofeen

Mr. Sarofeen is currently affiliated as special tax counsel to the law firm of Wood & Smith, P.C. and practices extensively in the areas of business tax, business succession, estate, and wealth preservation planning, federal and New York business and individual tax advocacy, compensation and retirement planning, and business mergers and acquisitions. Formerly Chair of the Tax Practice Group of Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, and formerly Chair of the Tax and Estate Planning Section of Devorsetz Stinziano Gilberti Heintz & Smith, P.C., Mr. Sarofeen received his B.S., summa cum laude, in CPA Accounting (with concentrations in Economics and Finance) from Syracuse University School of Management and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Syracuse University College of Law. Mr. Sarofeen has over twenty five years of experience representing clients including individuals as well as small, medium and large businesses local, national, and international in scope. He has acted as lead counsel for mergers and acquisitions, real estate exchanges, executive compensation and business formation matters for a number of business organizations. He has lectured extensively for the New York State Bar Association and other organizations in Taxation and Advanced Planning.