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Charles Bond
Thayer Goodenow
Christopher Miller
David Welty
Charles Bond
CB@physiciansadvocates.com
Charles
Bond is a leading health law and appellate attorney, strategic planner and
policy advisor. For 30 years he has advised physicians, medical groups and
medical societies nationwide in all aspects of practice organization,
managed care, health law and policy. He has been actively involved in the
development of strategies for dealing with managed care and healthcare
reform. Because of his recognized expertise in health policy and
medico-economic trends, Mr. Bond has been named legal and policy advisor to
the Center for Practical Health Reform, a non-profit group of healthcare
experts which The Wall Street Journal suggests may be the successor to the
“Jackson Hole Group.”
Mr. Bond has lectured and written on all aspects of physicians and the law,
including authoring books, treatises, and chapters for the American Medical
Association and the California Medical Association. Additionally, he has
been published on topics such as health policy, managed care strategies,
physician employment contracts, and the legal aspects of asthma and pain
management. His career has touched virtually all aspects of law and policy
for doctors and patients. He began in 1974-75 by helping draft and champion
MICRA, the malpractice reform law in California
that has become a nationwide model for tort reform. Known as the
“Physicians’ Advocate,” he has helped develop the concepts of doctor-owned
malpractice insurance companies, the living will, management service
organizations and many other healthcare innovations. He is recognized
nationally as an expert on hospital-medical staff matters, licensure and
medical ethics, as well as physicians’ business strategies and medical
device entrepreneuring.
Mr. Bond was selected by his peers and Law and Politics Magazine as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers. The distinction
places Mr. Bond in the top 3% of the 35,000 attorneys in Northern
California.
Mr. Bond also maintains a distinguished appellate law practice, winning
more than 80 percent of his cases before the higher courts for both
physicians and other clients. He is a member of the California Academy of
Appellate Lawyers, the California Academy of Attorneys for Healthcare
Providers and the American Medical Association Consulting Network. He is
often consulted by other lawyers to assist with strategic and tactical
decisions in pre-appellate situations at the trial level. His California
offices are in Berkeley and Pasadena, and he maintains an office in Paris, France,
for the practice of international law where his practice consists primarily
of assisting other lawyers and clients in deal-making. He is a graduate of
Duke University and the University of California,
Hastings College of Law. He and his firm carry Martindale-Hubbell’s highest
rating for law firms.
Thayer Goodenow
TG@physiciansadvocates.com
Thayer Goodenow is a health lawyer with uniquely strong
qualifications. She graduated with a B.A. in Literature with Honors from UC
Santa Cruz. She received her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in
2005.
Ms. Goodenow served as a Writer/Editor for the Journal of Law
Medicine & Ethics Proceedings of The Third Public Health and the Law in
the 21st Century Conference.
Loyal to the medical profession because of numerous physician
family members, she completed legal externships at both the Centers for
Disease Control and with California’s
Office of the Attorney General in the Health Quality Enforcement Section.
At the Office of the Attorney General she argued license disciplinary cases
for the various health boards. At Physicians’ Advocates she
continues to be active in discipline cases, using her experience to
represent physicians. While at the CDC she worked on issues such as health
regulation, appropriations law, and a proposed UNESCO bioethics statement.
Ms. Goodenow draws on her experience analyzing and interpreting regulations
for the federal government to help physicians avoid regulatory problems and
deal with them if administrative proceedings should arise.
Christopher Miller
cm@physiciansadvocates.com
Christopher Miller has been a recognized
expert in the field of health care law for over thirty years, having had
significant experience as both in-house general counsel to an international
public company and outside general counsel to entities in the health care
industry.
In addition to his representation of
physicians and other health care professionals, he has acted as outside
general counsel for hospitals, physician groups, extended care facilities,
and skilled nursing facilities. In that capacity, he has been called upon
to develop expertise in the areas of professional negligence, medical staff
matters, regulatory issues, reimbursement issues, compliance, and general
business advice.
He recently acted as counsel to the State
of California, Department of Corrections, with regard to responding to and
complying with federally mandated changes in the prison health care
delivery system. Out of nearly 1oo trials, he has successfully completed
over 75 jury trials involving claims of medical negligence in state and
federal courts, as well as a significant number of administrative hearings.
In his role as Senior Vice President,
Business Development and Legal, for the Pathways Group, Inc., a publicly
traded software development company concentrating on transaction processing
and smart card application development, Mr. Miller negotiated and
documented all contracts, strategic partnership agreements, technology
licensing agreements and joint venture agreements internationally,
including Great Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Canada,
Australia, Turkey and The Bahamas.
He established subsidiaries and operating
centers in Vienna and Istanbul and worked with outside legal counsel and
accounting professionals with regard to ongoing operations. In the course
of that experience Mr. Miller has become very well versed in business
customs in many countries and has developed excellent business relationship
and negotiation skills. He is fluent in French, and conversational in
German, Italian and Spanish.
Mr. Miller is a graduate of Sonoma State
University, and the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was
Comments Editor of the Law Review. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of
Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and an
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University. He is a
member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, a Master of the USF
Inn of Court, and was inducted as a Senior Counsel of the College of Master
Advocates and Barristers. Mr. Miller has held an AV rating from
Martindale-Hubbel for over twenty five years.
David Welty
dw@physiciansadvocates.com
David Welty leads the Physician’s
Advocates estate planning and administration team. He graduated from with a
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and in 1985, a Juris
Doctorate, with honors, both from the University of Oklahoma. In addition,
Mr. Welty earned a Master’s Degree in East/West Psychology from the
California Institute of Integral Studies in the year 2000.
Mr. Welty’s extensive legal experience
includes work in corporate and securities law, having worked both in the
regulatory arena at the Oklahoma Securities Commission and in the private
bar in the area of public and private securities offerings, mergers and
acquisitions, and regulatory compliance.
His practice and energies are now focused
on estate planning and administration with an emphasis on estate planning
for professionals. Mr. Welty also does estate planning for non-traditional
families and domestic partners. He has a good deal of valuable experience
and practices in the area of family law and community property and has
published articles in the areas of securities law and mediation.
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