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Seymour J. Schafer
seymour@gss-law.net
Seymour J. Schafer is of counsel to Goldman Schafer & Spear
P.C., having joined the firm in 1963. He has significant experience in
business law and healthcare law, pursuant to which he has represented
numerous healthcare institutions and physicians. Mr. Schafer has served as
legal counsel to the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania since 1968. He
successfully represented the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania and
other non-profit organizations in their challenge to the legality of City of
Pittsburgh Institution and Service Privilege Tax. Mr. Schafer has also been
instrumental in changing the manner in which tax exempt status is determined
for non-profit institutions in Pennsylvania through the drafting of
appellate briefs, as well as Pennsylvania’s Institutions of Purely Public
Charity Act. Mr. Schafer was a co-founder and past president of the Society
of Hospital Attorneys of Western Pennsylvania. He has lectured nationally on
physician contracts and consent practices and taught Pennsylvania Bar
Institute courses on certificates of need, tax exemption, antitrust, and
medical staff issues.
Mr. Schafer received his B.A. in 1955 and his LL.B. in 1958 from the
University of Pittsburgh with honors and his LL.M. in 1960 from the
University of Michigan, where he was a Cook Fellow.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Schafer was assistant professor of
law at the Western Reserve University of Law, and he had a joint appointment
as an assistant professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Law and as an assistant research professor of health law at the University
of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health.
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