About the 2024 Competition
In keeping with Roy Snell’s keen interest in practical, realistic, and user-centered communication, as well as a commitment to efficiency and clarity in writing, this demanding competition requires students to analyze a hypothetical fact pattern (the Competition Problem) involving an organization facing multifaceted health care regulatory/compliance matters and draft two separate written work products to two different recipients within the organization. Students must analyze the facts presented, identify any and all regulatory/compliance concerns and advise the recipients of the two written work products. While these two written work products address the same hypothetical situation and subject matter, they are to be drafted with a specific audience/reader in mind. Content must be customized to a particular audience/reader to optimize understanding, engagement, and responsiveness. This year’s competition challenged students to draft a detailed internal legal memorandum and create a PowerPoint presentation.
The competition honors Roy Snell, the distinguished and highly regarded former CEO of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), for his visionary leadership and extraordinary contributions to the field of Health Care Compliance. Roy Snell lends his name to the competition to support new and emerging leaders in health care compliance. For more information on Mr. Snell’s extraordinary legacy click here.
All submissions were judged by a panel of independent legal and compliance experts. Neither the entrant’s identity nor academic institution were known to the judges. Top honors were awarded to the following students:
2024 Press Release and Competition Problem
The full press release can be found here: Press Release 2024
There writing competition problem for 2024 can be found here: Snell 2024 Problem
2024 Judging Panel
David Graham, JD
Senior Counsel, Gardner Law
Melissa Hunt, JD, LLM
Senior Director, Arcus Biosciences
Business Partner and Health Law Attorney
Michael Loucks, JD
Retired Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Bob Wade, JD
Partner, Nelson Mullins
Schools That Participated in 2024
Boston University School of Law
Colombia Law School
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Northern Illinois University College of Law
Regent University School of Law
The George Washington University Law Center
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
University of Houston Law Center
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
University of Nebraska College of Law
University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law
University of North Dakota School of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law
West Virginia University College of Law
William S. Boyd School of Law
About the Competition Sponsor
The Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory & Compliance Writing Competition is made possible in part by generous support from the Health Care Compliance Association. The HCCA champions ethical practice and compliance standards and provides necessary resources for healthcare professionals and others who share those principles.