James A. Saling concentrates his practice on the legal, regulatory and business issues related to health care services. He assists health care providers (both for profit and not-for-profit) with regulatory compliance and licensing issues, business entity formations, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, federal and state taxation matters (including health care tax exemption issues for hospitals), and other general business transactions. He has also advised companies with respect to controversies at the Internal Revenue Service.
In 2007, Mr. Saling served as a legal extern for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he assisted with representation of the United States in the Court of Federal Claims. He is an associate in the Firm's Jackson office and is a member of the Health Law Department. The Health/Public Policy Department of Baker Donelson is regarded as one of the premiere health law practices in the country. It has been nationally ranked by Modern Healthcare, Chambers USA – America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Health Lawyers News and other health care publications.
- Author – "Health Reform Act Contains New Requirements for Tax Exempt Hospitals," ABA Health Source (July 2010)
- Author – "IRS Releases Study of More Than 500 Nonprofit Hospitals," Baker Donelson HealthStat Alert (February 2009)
- Author – "Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Governmental Entities Report on the Appropriate Role of the Service with Respect to Tax Exempt Organizations Good Governance," American Health Lawyers Association Practice Group on Tax & Finance and Corporate Governance Task Force, Email Alert (June 2008)
- Lecturer – Fundamentals of Real Estate Development Seminar (Entity Selection), Little Rock, Arkansas (February 2006)
- Member – American Health Lawyers Association
- Member – Health Law Section of the American Bar Association
- Member – Health Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association
- Member – Mississippi Bar Association
- Member – District of Columbia Bar Association
- Phi Delta Phi
- Mississippi, 2008
- District of Columbia, 2007
- Arkansas, 2005
- Georgetown University Law Center, L.L.M. in Taxation, 2007
- 2nd Place, American Bar Association Law Student Tax Challenge
- Senior Notes and Comments Editor, The Tax Lawyer
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2005
- Articles Editor, Georgetown Law Journal
- University of Arkansas, B.A., 2002
- Benemerita Autonoma de Puebla, School of Language, Puebla, Mexico, Summer Program, 2001