JAMES R. SCHWARTZ is deputy attorney general with the California Attorney General's Office. He is the author of the California Attorney General's Review Protocol for Ownership of Control Transfers of Non-Profit Health Facilities and the principal drafter of California's hospital conversion law. Since 1995, Schwartz has had primary responsibility for overseeing all conversions of nonprofit hospitals within the state of California. H. CHESTER HORN is a deputy attorney general in the Charitable Trusts Section of the California Attorney General's office. Horn drafted the regulations implementing California's hospital conversion law and is coauthor of Deal Makers, Deal Breakers. Horn has reviewed more than a dozen hospital conversions valued at more than $1.5 billion.