At the Lexology North American Legal Awards, Temple Health took home the Best Healthcare and Life Sciences Legal Department title, beating out other impressive finalists, including Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson.
“This is in recognition of our innovation, our dedication to providing world-class legal support to our colleagues, and our successful outcomes as a team,” says John Ryan, Temple Health’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Human Resources Officer.
“Our department serves a non-profit Health System, and we’re always working as hard as we can on behalf of our community in North Philadelphia and beyond,” Ryan continues. “Almost all of the other winners and finalists were large public companies and law firms, so it was especially gratifying to be recognized for the kind of work we do.”
Making Our Mission Possible
For this year’s North American Legal Awards, the Lexology legal team invited nominations for leading lawyers and in-house teams from private practice lawyers, consulting experts, clients, and other in-house lawyers registered on the Lexology platform. They received thousands of individual nominations, as well as over 300,000 individual recommendations from practice area-based research.
The 2025 ceremony was held in New York City on May 22nd. Several members of the Temple Health Legal Department were in attendance, including Ryan; Jerome Maddox, JD, PhD, General Counsel for Fox Chase Cancer Center; Tausha Saunders, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Temple Health; Lindsey Marandola, Director of Legal Operations; Kendra Oxholm, Associate General Counsel; and Kathleen Radich, Assistant General Counsel.
“This is a fantastic team,” Ryan says. “I’m so proud of the truly first-rate Legal Department we’ve built, and all of their accomplishments. They make the work of our colleagues across the Health System possible and allow Temple Health to fulfill our mission of providing the highest quality care to our community.”