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PACIFIC WEST LAW GROUP LLP
Pacific West Law Group LLP is a San Francisco law firm with offices in Marin County and Silicon Valley, and specializes in corporate and business law, as well as corporate and business litigation for individuals, and small and medium-sized businesses. The firm also represents physicians, medical groups, outpatient medical clinics, and e-health companies in health care business transactions, and physicians in Medical Board licensing and hospital credentialing disputes. The firm represents health plans, health maintenance organizations, and insurance companies in insurance coverage and benefits litigation.
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Corporate and Business Law
Pacific West Law Group LLP provides corporate and general business advice for small and medium-sized businesses, including general corporate matters such as counseling in the day-to-day operational activities of businesses, preparing and reviewing contracts including joint venture agreements, employment and separation agreements, independent contractor and consulting agreements, leases, confidentiality agreements, and partnership agreements, preparation of documents involved in the private placement of securities, choice of entity analysis, counseling on general employment matters, providing liaison services with other professionals such as intellectual property counsel and accountants, and providing team support in making business decisions.
The firm also provides legal advice in mergers and acquisitions, including negotiation and preparation of documents related to the purchase and sale of businesses, including the purchase of assets, purchase of stock, and mergers.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP have been providing corporate and business law advice for its clients since 1984.
Corporate and Business Litigation
Pacific West Law Group LLP represents businesses in corporate and business litigation, such as contractual disputes of all types with other businesses, disputes over joint venture agreements, employment and separation contracts, independent contractor and consulting agreements, real and personal property leasing disputes, confidentiality agreements, partnership agreements, and insurance coverage matters.
The firm is experienced in representing corporations and businesses in all forums, from binding arbitrations to jury trials in courts throughout California.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP have been representing parties involved in corporate and business litigation for its clients since 1980.
Health Care Law
Pacific West Law Group LLP has a health care transactional practice representing a variety of health care providers, including physicians and medical groups, outpatient imaging facilities, outpatient surgery centers, and billing and management companies, in general operational matters including counseling in day-to-day activities, preparation and review of contracts including joint venture agreements, agreements with payors, agreements between physicians and hospitals, leases, buy-sell agreements, employment and separation agreements, independent contractor and consulting agreements, preparation of documents relating to the private placement of securities, employment matters, choice of entity analysis and preparation of organizational documents, engaging in liaison activities with other professional consultants such as intellectual property counsel and accountants, negotiation and preparation of documents involved in mergers and acquisitions of assets, stock and statutory mergers, and providing team support to make business decisions.
The firm also provides legal counseling on compliance issues, including preparation of compliance plans, fraud and abuse and other similar federal and state anti-kickback laws, self-referral issues under federal and state laws, antitrust laws, organization of groups for negotiation of contracts, and other health care regulatory issues.
The firm also provides advice on health law issues facing e-health companies doing business on the Internet.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP have been providing advice on health care law matters for its clients since 1989.
Health Care Litigation
Pacific West Law Group LLP represents physicians in licensing matters brought by the Medical Board of California, hospital and health plan credentialing and peer review matters, antitrust litigation, and Medicare investigations.
The firm also represents physicians and physician groups in corporate and business litigation over contractual disputes of all types, including disputes over joint venture agreements, payor reimbursement issues, hospital/physician agreements, real and personal property lease disputes, and employment disputes over buy-sell agreements, employment and separation agreements, independent contractor and consulting contracts.
Pacific West Law Group LLP represents physicians and physician groups in medical malpractice actions throughout Northern California. The firm handles not only all standard of care issues in medical malpractice litigation, but also specializes in the representation of physicians and physician groups in malpractice cases involving managed care issues.
Pacific West Law Group LLP also represents health insurers, health care services plans, health maintenance organizations, managed care plans, and other integrated health care delivery systems, in all types of business and corporate litigation, including contractual disputes with other plans, health care providers and vendors, and in health insurance bad faith litigation, ERISA benefit litigation, third party liability reimbursement actions, and insurance fraud actions in state and federal courts throughout California. The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP periodically speak on health care law issues at seminars across the country, and have regularly acted as hearing officers in hospital credentialing disputes throughout California.
Because of its years of experience in representing physicians in medical malpractice actions and in representing health plans in insurance bad faith lawsuits, Pacific West Law Group LLP is uniquely experienced to represent health plans and physicians in managed care liability actions involving quality of care and financial incentive issues against health plans and against physicians.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP have been representing physicians and health plans in litigation since 1980.
Insurance Law and Litigation
Pacific West Law Group LLP represents auto and other liability insurers, as well as life and disability insurers in insurance bad faith litigation in courts throughout California. These actions have involved declaratory relief actions over insurance coverage, lawsuits to recover policy benefits, and actions seeking punitive damages from insurers, as well as lien disputes and insurance fraud actions. Because of its experience, the firm provides risk management advice to insurers in the areas of claims processing and dispute resolution.
Due to its work with insurers on insurance law matters, the firm is able to offer its expertise on insurance coverage issues for all of its individual, business, and corporate clients.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP have been representing insurers in litigation since 1987.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP act as mediators and arbitrators in a variety of civil matters, including disputes involving health care law issues and between corporations and businesses in the health care industry such as contractual disputes, managed care issues, and hospital-physician contracts.
The attorneys at Pacific West Law Group LLP also act as hearing officers in hospital and health plan credentialing matters.
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