PACIFIC WEST LAW GROUP - Key Persons
Brock D. Phillips is a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group with over 35 years' experie... More Info
Brock D. Phillips is a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group with over 35 years' experience as a health care attorney. He is a 1980 graduate of Hastings College of the Law and an experienced trial and appellate attorney. During his 35+ years practicing law, Brock has specialized in the areas of physician credentialing and peer review, health care regulatory issues, medical malpractice, general business and tort law, and insurance bad faith and managed care liability. Brock has regularly represented physicians and medical groups in civil court, regulatory hearings and hospital disciplinary hearings. Brock now predominately limits his practice to serving as a hearing officer in medical staff peer review hearings.
Mr. Phillips has published articles on punitive damages, wrongful termination, medical staff peer review and malpractice issues. His treatise on medical staff disciplinary hearings is incorporated annually in the California Medical Association's California Physician's Legal Handbook. Brock is a frequent speaker on medical-legal topics including all aspects of managed care liability, peer review and credentialing issues, and loss prevention. Mr. Phillips is a past-President of the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys and an active member of the California Academy of Attorneys for Healthcare Professionals. Mr. Phillips has been named to the list of Northern California "Super Lawyers" in the field of health law continuously since 2008. He was also recently accorded the rating "AV Preeminent" by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest available rating in legal ability and ethical standards. Mr. Phillips maintains a blog on issues of interest to physicians at http://brockdp.wordpress.com/.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Phillips served as a naval officer on sea duty for four years. He graduated from Whitman College in 1973.
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- Member of the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Ms. Kime is a member of the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys, the California Academy of Attorneys for Healthcare Professionals, the California State Bar Section for Intellectual Property Law and a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
Ms. Kime has represented clients in professional health care licensing and discipline cases before the State of California for over 24 years. See Client Testimonials. She has lobbied for state and national physician professional organizations before the State of California Legislature and served as Principal Consultant to the Senate Insurance Committee for then-State Senator Jackie Speier. She has also worked in food and drug law and regulation as a senior scientist at Genentech, Inc for 8 years and is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ms. Kime originally practiced obstetrical nursing at Loma Linda University Hospital, Loma Linda, California, then served as a nursing instructor at Hinsdale School of Nursing in Hinsdale, Illinois. After marriage, she oversaw the medical practice of her physician-husband, Zane Kime, M.D., who had an integrative medical practice in Auburn, California. In total, she functioned within the medical community in California for over 20 years. She has personally observed the impact of organized health care on the practice of medicine and nursing from the health care professional's perspective. This observation drove her to the practice of law and to lobbying to influence the policy and practice of medicine.
After obtaining her law degree, Ms. Kime practiced administrative health care law first at Turner and Sullivan in Sacramento, then Nossaman, Guthner, Knox and Elliot in Sacramento and San Francisco and finally, Pacific West Law Group. Her practice gained invaluable political insight through experience both lobbying for national and state physician professional associations before the State Legislature and by serving as the Principal Consultant for the Senate Insurance Committee.
For over 20 years, her law practice has focused entirely on the representation of health care licensees such as physicians, psychologists and nurses with an additional focus in alternative/complementary and integrative medicine. She represents many integrative medical groups in Northern California. Consequently, she has developed considerable experience before the California State licensing boards.