Jorge Contreras

Jim Lytle is Senior Counsel in the Albany and Boston offices of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, a national law and consulting firm. He is also currently a Senior Fellow with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and an adjunct professor at New York University Law School. He has provided health law and governmental relations representation to a broad array of clients in the fields of healthcare and human services, education and cultural affairs, insurance, biomedical research, and economic development. He has been recognized by Chambers USA as a Leading Lawyer since 2011 and was included in Best Lawyers in America since 2013, where he was named Best Lawyer of the Year in Albany for Health Law in 2017 and for Government Relations Law in 2017 and 2020. He served as Assistant Counsel for Health and Human Services for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, was the founding director of the Volunteer Legal Services Project in Rochester, NY and began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1974 and received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1978, where he was the Director of the Harvard Legislative Research Bureau. He is a former Chair of the Health Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, the co-President of the Hermann Biggs Society and is a board member of the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy and of DonateLife New York.