Monte Dube is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in its Chicago office. He served as national head of the Firm’s Health Law Department from 2001 to 2006 and leads its international health expansion initiative.
Monte represents hospitals and health systems nationwide and has served as counsel in the sale, merger, affiliation and acquisition of hundreds of hospitals and academic medical centers, hospital restructurings, public hospital privatizations, joint ventures, certificate of need and reimbursement litigation, and hospital and medical staff operational legal issues of all types. He regularly advises boards on the proper exercise of their fiduciary duties.
Monte was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law in 1981 and 1982. He regularly lectures and publishes on hospital-physician relations, hospital merger and affiliation transactions, fiduciary duties of not-for-profit trustees, and rural health care issues.
Monte is ranked as a leading lawyer in health care law in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers. Monte is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2009). Here is what Chambers (and clients) have said about Monte in the last three editions:
- According to clients, Monte Dube is an “absolute gem” and a prominent figure in transactional matters and hospital deals, where his “brilliant thinking and tactical skill” are well recognized in the market. He has been especially active in public hospital privatization, the sale of nonprofit hospitals and the facilitation of mergers. (2006)
- The “brilliant and personable” Monte Dube remains a client favorite. As one source notes, “we wouldn’t have been able to achieve our outcome without his help.” (2007)
- Commentators hold Monte Dube in high esteem as “an extremely fine lawyer.” Acting on behalf of hospitals and healthcare systems, he is experienced in advising on the sale, merger, affiliation and acquisition of large industry bodies.” (2008)
Monte is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the American, Illinois and Chicago bar associations. He is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
For a complete list of Monte's speeches and publications, please click here.
Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 1981
- Boston University, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1977
