Maurice Wells

“In complex litigation, the dispute on paper is rarely the whole risk. My job is to make sure both the client and the court understand the full picture.” —Maurice Wells

Maurice Wells is a health care and commercial litigator who represents clients in provider-side disputes where litigation, regulation, reimbursement, privacy, and business risk overlap.

Clients facing a court filing deadline, an arbitration demand, a contested medical-records request, or a government challenge turn to Maurice when the outcome will affect not only the current proceeding but also their operations, payer relationships, and reputation. What distinguishes his approach is his ability to combine health care–industry fluency with commercial-litigation strategy—translating dense reimbursement, pharmacy, and regulatory facts into claims, defenses, discovery positions, and motion themes that courts and arbitrators can follow.

Maurice handles a wide range of health care and commercial disputes in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals. His work includes 340B drug-pricing and payer-provider reimbursement litigation, pharmacy-services agreement disputes, hospital privacy and medical-records access litigation, health care administrative-record proceedings, and post-transaction business disputes involving restrictive covenants and creditor remedies. He has also litigated fraudulent-transfer and bankruptcy-related claims on behalf of health care and commercial clients, and has appeared in toxic tort, product liability, and Section 1983 matters across Ohio courts.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Maurice was a litigation attorney at an international law firm, where he managed general civil litigation with a focus on toxic tort matters and served as national counsel for several large commercial clients. During law school, he interned with the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification, served as an extern at the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Office of Public Information, and completed a legal externship at the Office of the Chief Legal Officer of an insurance and financial services company.

What Maurice Delivers for Clients

• Industry Fluency Without the Learning Curve: Complex disputes often turn on facts that are specific to a client's industry, whether that means 340B pricing, payer-contract mechanics, pharmacy-services obligations, or the regulatory backdrop of a financial or commercial relationship. Clients do not pay to educate their litigator on that context. Maurice arrives with that foundation already in place.
• One Matter, Multiple Exposure Points: A health care dispute over a payer contract or pharmacy agreement can simultaneously implicate regulatory obligations, privacy requirements, and ongoing business relationships. Clients receive counsel who accounts for all of those dimensions from the outset, not after the litigation position has already been set.
• Procedural Range Across All Stages: From the first demand letter through discovery, dispositive motions, trial, and appeal, Maurice handles the full arc of a dispute. Clients do not need to change counsel as the matter progresses, and the strategy stays consistent from intake to resolution.
• Post-Transaction Disputes Grounded in Industry Context: Restrictive covenant challenges, purchase-price adjustment claims, and fraudulent-transfer litigation that follow a health care transaction carry industry-specific facts that shape both liability and damages. Maurice applies that industry knowledge to the dispute from day one, without treating it as a generic commercial litigation matter.

Education

• Capital University Law School (J.D., 2017)
• The Ohio State University (B.A., 2009)

Professional & Community Involvement

• Capital African American Law Alumni Association, Board Member
• Columbus Bar Association
• Ohio Association of Civil Trial Lawyers
• Ohio State Bar Association