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Madeline S. Knight

Associate

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Madeline S. Knight

Associate

Boston 617.502.3217

Practice Areas

Education

  • Vanderbilt Law School (J.D., 2024)
    • Executive Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2023-2024)
    • Vice President, Vanderbilt Health Law Society
    • Vice President, Vanderbilt OutLaw
    • Vice President, If, When How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
  • Emory University (B.S., 2021)
    • Spanish and Linguistics

Admissions

  • Massachusetts

Madeline Knight practices in Foley’s Business Law Department within the Health Care Group. Madeline began at Foley as a summer associate, assisting with health care corporate compliance, environmental practice problems, and medical drug and device approval. During her time as a summer associate, she was also worked on and published within the Cannabis Law industry team and aided with publications written in the Health Care Group. Additionally, she contributed to the authorship of several chapters on topics such as labor and employment law and sports law.

While at Vanderbilt University Law School, Madeline served as the Executive Editor of Vanderbilt’s Journal of Entertainment and Technology law, the journal in which her own scholarship, An Epidemic in Enforceability, was published. Additionally, Madeline worked in Vanderbilt’s Stanton First Amendment Clinic, where she was awarded the Carl J. Ruskowski Clinical Legal Education Award, which recognizes the student who, in their representation of clients in the law school’s clinical program, demonstrated excellent in practice of law and best exemplified the highest standards of the legal profession. In the Nashville community, Madeline also served as the law student board member of the Tennessee Stonewall Bar Association.

Awards and Recognitions

  • Dean’s List, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
  • Recipient, Carl J. Ruskowski Clinical Legal Education Award
  • Recipient, Chris Lantz Memorial Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law Outstanding Service Award
  • Recipient, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law Student Impact Award
  • Recipient, Award for Excellence in the Study of Spanish and Linguistics

Presentations and Publications

  • Co-author, “Massachusetts: Expansion of Oversight Authority — New Notice of Material Change Form for Health Care Transactions,” Health Care Law Today (March 27, 2025)
  • Co-author, “Non-Competes: New Limits for Pennsylvania Health Care Practitioners,” Health Care Law Today (January 13, 2025)
  • Co-author, “Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Medical Products: FDA’s Final Guidance on Firm Communication to Health Care Providers,” Health Care Law Today (January 7, 2025)
  • Co-author, “Massachusetts ‘Patients First Act’ Implementation and Enforcement Re-Extended,” Health Care Law Today (December 10, 2024)
  • Author, “Securing the Volunteer State: A Legal Blueprint for Cyber Resilience in Tennessee”, Tennessee Bar Association Administrative Law Section (2023-2024)
  • Author, “It’s Time To Regul8: The Need For Delta 8 Regulation”, Cannabis Law Journal (2023)
  • Author, “An Epidemic in Enforceability: A Growing Need for Individual Autonomy in Health Care Data-Privacy Protection in an Era of Digital Tracking”, 25 Vand. J. Ent. Tech. L. 749 (2023).
22 April 2025 Health Care Law Today

Health Care Marketing: The Seventh Circuit Addresses “Referrals” Under The Anti-Kickback Statute

The case, United States v. Sorenson, addressed whether a Medicare-registered distributor violated the AKS in making payments to advertising, marketing, and manufacturing companies that worked to sell orthopedic braces to Medicare patients. The court held that such payments were not “referrals” within the meaning of the AKS because the payments were made to entities that were neither physicians in a position to refer their patients nor other decisionmakers in positions to “leverage fluid, informal power and influence” over health care decisions.
27 March 2025 Health Care Law Today

Massachusetts: Expansion of Oversight Authority — New Notice of Material Change Form for Health Care Transactions

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, an independent state agency that works to improve affordability of health care for residents of the Commonwealth, released Advance Guidance for “Providers” and “Provider Organizations” considering transactions subject to the HPC’s updated Notice of Material Change process.
13 January 2025 Health Care Law Today

Non-Competes: New Limits for Pennsylvania Health Care Practitioners

Pennsylvania’s new law, the Fair Contracting for Health Care Practitioners Act (the Act) went into effect on January 1, 2025.
07 January 2025 Health Care Law Today

Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Medical Products: FDA’s Final Guidance on Firm Communication to Health Care Providers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced final guidance for firms in the medical device and product industry.
10 December 2024 Health Care Law Today

Massachusetts “Patients First Act” Implementation and Enforcement Re-Extended

The Massachusetts Senate proposed an amendment on Monday December 2, 2024, that would delay implementation and enforcement of the 2021 Patients First Act addressing health care cost transparency.
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