Sabrina Michelle Topps, Esq.
Edward Topps, II
Edward Topps II is a seasoned employment practice professional with over 20 years of HR leadership experience, including roles inside Fortune 25 companies and nonprofit associations. He brings deep, practical knowledge of California labor code, employment regulations, and regulatory opinion letters to every engagement — the kind of expertise that helps organizations stay ahead of employment risk rather than react to it after the fact.
At Topps & Associates, Edward partners with healthcare organizations and growing businesses to build HR functions that are compliant, defensible, and built to scale — whether that means navigating a complex termination, structuring workplace policy, or preparing an organization for the HR side of a regulatory audit.
Credentials & Recognition
Professional member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Designated Vocational Expert, Ticket to Work / Social Security Disability
MBA, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior — California State University, Sacramento (1992)
BS, Family and Consumer Resources — University of Arizona (1989)
National speaker and panel member on disability management, workplace communication, and human resource management
Active participant in state and local business networks
Areas of Expertise
California labor code and multi-state employment compliance
Employment policy development and workplace investigations
Disability management and accommodation (ADA, workers' compensation, vocational assessment)
HR risk assessment and audit readiness
Workplace communication and conflict resolution
Executive and staff training on employment practices
Edward's combination of Fortune 25 rigor and hands-on nonprofit sector experience gives clients a rare blend of enterprise-grade HR discipline with the practical, people-first judgment smaller organizations actually need.
Sabrina Michelle Topps, Esq. is a corporate attorney and regulatory compliance executive with over 20 years of experience helping healthcare organizations build, structure, and defend themselves against an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Her background spans C-suite compliance leadership inside Medicare Advantage and Medicaid health plans, where she ran the exact CMS audit, delegation oversight, and program integrity functions that regulators now expect providers to have. Today, through Topps & Associates, she brings that same rigor to healthcare organizations that need enterprise-grade compliance and legal support without the overhead of a full-time executive team.
Sabrina's recent work includes helping a multi-entity wound care organization build audit-ready corporate structures — segregating duties and authority across management services, supply, and clinical entities, and documenting the relationship through inter-company and provider agreements. As CMS enforcement tightens across wound care, home health, DME, and post-acute care, this is exactly the kind of proactive structuring that separates organizations built to withstand scrutiny from those still hoping they won't be asked.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate & Transactional
Corporate governance and entity structuring
Asset protection strategy
Contract drafting and negotiation
Merger and acquisition strategy
Startup licensing and incorporation
Fiduciary duty and shareholder rights
Regulatory Compliance
Federal and state healthcare regulatory compliance
Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) implementation and management
Enterprise compliance and operational risk assessments
Fraud, waste, and abuse prevention
HIPAA privacy and security
Physician compliance
Governance & Advisory
Compliance program development, implementation, and effectiveness
Board and executive leadership, governance, and training
Legal investigations, depositions, settlements, arbitration, mediation, and litigation preparation
Whether your organization is growing fast, operating through multiple related entities, or bracing for its next CMS audit, Sabrina brings the perspective of someone who has sat on both sides of the table — as the regulator's compliance counterpart, and now as the advisor helping providers get it right.
Let's talk about where your organization stands today.
