Dan Willick has practiced law since 1973, with an emphasis on healthcare law and complex civil litigation. He has been involved in precedent-setting lawsuits concerning important healthcare issues. Dan is the attorney for the Southern California Psychiatric Society and has been a legal consultant to the University of California system on mental health law and general counsel to the California Psychiatric Association. He advises boards of directors, negotiates contracts with employees and lobbyists, and follows and advises on proposed healthcare legislation and regulations. Additionally, Dan advises on the operation of clinics providing psychotherapy and other medical services.
Dan's expansive healthcare practice includes representing physicians and other healthcare providers before licensing boards and in medical staff corrective action hearings. He frequently acts as a hearing officer or arbitrator in medical staff hearings and has been chosen to serve as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel. Dan has prepared medical staff bylaw provisions governing peer review hearings and has represented medical staffs and professional societies at such hearings.
He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and has also held academic appointments at Loyola Law School, USC Keck School of Medicine, University of California at Santa Barbara and California State University at Los Angeles.
Menendez v. Superior Court (1992) 3 Cal. 4th 435. The California Supreme Court adopted positions on confidentiality and privilege put forward in an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the California Psychiatric Association. California Association of Psychology Providers v. Rank (1990) 51 Cal.3d 1. Represented the California Psychiatric Association in proceedings to implement the California Supreme Court's opinion concerning medical staff issues. Regents v. Rosen (2018) 240 Cal.App.4th 1296. Court of Appeal adopts position taken in amici curiae brief filed on behalf of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, American Psychiatric Association and California Psychiatric Association and rules in favor of immunity for treating psychotherapist from suit for injuries caused by a patient. California Supreme Court subsequently overturns the Court of Appeal decision, except the ruling in favor of the psychotherapist.
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