About the 2025 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. Students must analyze the facts presented, identify any and all regulatory/compliance concerns and advise the recipients in 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:
2025 Press Release and Competition Problem
The full press release can be found here: Press Release 2025 Winners Announced
There writing competition problem for 2025 can be found here: Snell Competition Problem for 2025
2025 Judging Panel
David Graham, JD
Senior Counsel, Gardner Law
Melissa Hunt, JD, LLM
Senior Director, Arcus Biosciences
Business Partner and Health Law Attorney
Kathryn Meintsma
President, HealthRoad Legal PLLC
Bob Wade, JD
Partner, Nelson Mullins
Schools That Participated in 2025
American University Washington College of Law
Belmont University College of Law
Boston University School of Law
Brooklyn Law School
George Washington University Law School
Georgetown Law
Howard University School of Law
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
St. Thomas University College of Law
Tulane University Law School
UCLA School of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
University of California College of the Law San Francisco
University of Florida Levin College of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
Villanova Law School
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.