Rebecca L. Hamilton

Rebecca is a member of Butler Snow’s Health Law and Regulatory and Government practice groups. She brings unique client perspective as a former government and in-house attorney and focuses her practice on health law, administrative processes, regulatory compliance, and appeals.

• Health Law
• Health Care Litigation
• Data Privacy & Security
• Administrative & Regulatory Law
• Government Relations

Rebecca’s background combines in-house and government practice, allowing her to provide practical legal guidance to clients navigating complex regulatory matters. Her administrative and regulatory experience spans multiple sectors, including health law, education law, environmental regulation, and agency compliance. This experience enables Rebecca to help clients navigate complex regulatory challenges and evolving compliance obligations.

While in law school, Rebecca served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Justice Dawn Beam of the Mississippi Supreme Court.

• Represented a multifaceted organization providing behavioral health, educational, and social services, advising on a broad range of regulatory, operational, and transactional matters.
• Provided regulatory compliance guidance to investigative agencies regarding statutory confidentiality and disclosure requirements pertaining to minors.
• Advised behavioral health provider on complex regulatory compliance matters, including HIPAA, telehealth regulations, mobile health and wellness applications, and the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare setting.
• Advised a network of special purpose schools of wide range of education law matters, including FERPA compliance, governance, and risk management.
• Obtained favorable litigation outcomes, including securing dismissals and favorable rulings successful dispositive and other key motions in state court proceedings.
• Counseled organizational leadership on risk assessment and mitigation strategies in highly regulated healthcare and human services environments.
• Managed high volume contract needs, including the drafting, review, revision, and negotiation of a diverse portfolio of commercial, vendor, and service agreements.
• Presided over Mississippi Coordinated Access Network appeals involving denials of coverage.
• Presided over hearings involving adverse audit findings on behalf of the Mississippi Division of Medicaid.
• Contributed to the development of statewide policy initiatives relating to maternal health and fee-for-service reimbursement models

• MC Law Moot Court Boards’ Excellence in Advocacy Award, 2023 Recipient
• National Order of the Barristers, 2021 Inductee

• Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2021
  • The Mississippi College Law Review, Executive Editor
  • Moot Court Board, External Competitions Chair
  • Health Law Society, President
  • Teaching Assistant, Contracts I & II
  • Jeffery Jackson Scholar, 2021
  • William B. Lovett, Jr. Memorial Award 2021
  • Judge David Neil McCarty Legal Writers’ Circle Award, 2021
  • Alumni Award, 2020
• Delta State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2018
  • Doyce Stallings Mitchell Honor Diploma, 2018
  • Top Scholar in College of Arts and Sciences, 2018
• Copiah-Lincoln Community College, A.S., highest honors, 2016
  • Hall of Fame, Class of 2016
  • Most Outstanding Social Science Student, 2016
  • Phi Theta Kappa, Vice President of Scholarship, 2015-2016

• The Mississippi Bar
  • Young Lawyers Division
    • Committee Chair
• Jackson Young Lawyers
  • Committee Chair
• Capital Area Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• Presenter, The Alphabet of Education Law: FERPA, IDEA, PPRA, and the Acronyms that Shape Education, Canopy Children’s Solutions’ Children’s Mental Health Summit, July 15, 2026. 
• Panel Moderator, Resources for Navigating Legal Careers with a Disability or Mental Health Challenge, MS Bar Young Lawyers Division Diversity Committee Event, April 15, 2025. 
• Program Organizer, Belonging in the Bar: Navigating Legal Careers with Disabilities or Mental Health Challenges, MS Bar Young Lawyers Division Diversity Committee Event, April 15, 2026.  
• Presenter, There’s an App for That: Regulatory Considerations for Expanding Access to Mental Healthcare in the Digital Age, MC Law Health Law Center, October 3, 2025.
• Panelist, In-House Career Opportunities in the Health Law Sector, MC Law Health Law Society, April 15, 2025. 
• Presenter, Medicaid Explained, MC Law Health Law Society, April 18, 2022.
• Author, The Contraception Conundrum: A Constitutional Approach to Establishing Comprehensive Sex Education in the Classroom and Community, 34 The Health Lawyer 1, 26-55 (2021), October 31, 2021.

• National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Coach
• National Pre-Trial Competition, Coach