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Charles Bond | Tom Curtis
Alexander
Kirkpatrick | Thayer Goodenow |Mitchell
J. Green | Peerapong Tantameng
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.
Tom Curtis
TC@BondCurtis.com
Following college at the University
of Santa Clara, where he was a
debate champion, Mr. Curtis attended Georgetown University
Law Center.
While there, he worked on the Watergate case and prepared briefs to the
U.S. Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court in the leading
environmental cases of the day.
Mr. Curtis began practice in Southern California
in 1975. In 1981 he won a federal court injunction against the State of California,
preventing more than $200 million in cuts to the Medi-Cal program. In 1985
he was a founder of one of the nation's first law firms specializing in the
representation of physicians. His practice has focused upon the
representation of physicians, physician organizations, and other healthcare
providers since that date. His expertise in healthcare litigation, medical
staff issues, peer review, disciplinary and licensing matters has been
called upon by physicians throughout the country.
Mr. Curtis is at the forefront of the battle for physicians' rights. He
works closely with the California Medical Association and the American
Medical Association. As the principal attorney for the Medical Staff of
Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura, Mr. Curtis successfully
resolved the leading case in the nation on medical staff self-governance.
The principles and rights recognized in that settlement were codified in a California statute
that affirms and enhances the independence of all medical staffs in the
state.
Mr. Curtis was selected by his peers and Law and Politics Magazine as one
of Southern California’s Super Lawyers
during each of the two years that the honor has been awarded. The
distinction places Mr. Curtis in the top 3% of the 35,000 attorneys in Southern California.
Mr. Curtis has been a member of the faculty of the Joint Commission on the
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and was honored by the
Commission as its outstanding clinical faculty instructor. He has authored
the chapter on "The Medical Staff" in Matthew Bender's Healthcare
Law Treatise, as well as articles on medical staff issues and healthcare
litigation. He lectures throughout the country on these subjects.
Mr. Curtis has been a member of the City Council and Mayor of the City of La Canada-Flintridge,
and has served and continues to serve on the boards of directors of civic
and charitable organizations.
Thayer
Goodenow
TG@BondCurtis.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 BondCurtis LLP 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.
Alexander Kirkpatrick
AK@BondCurtis.com
Mr. Kirkpatrick received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California
at Los Angeles School of Law in 1974 and a Bachelor's of Arts degree from Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois in 1971.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Kirkpatrick had four years
experience in criminal prosecution with California's Office of the Attorney
General, handling investigations, trials and appeals. He then spent five
years as Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Bureau of Medi-Cal
Fraud, handling major fraud prosecution and supervision of a staff of
attorneys and investigators.
Mr. Kirkpatrick's practice emphasizes healthcare law, principally for non-institutional,
individual health care providers such as for physicians, psychologists,
pharmacists, registered nurses, and other health care professionals. He has
represented clients in professional licensing proceedings, medical staff
disciplinary matters, and managed care physician deselection, exclusion,
suspension and contract issues. He also handles Medicare and Medi-Cal
audits, recoveries, suspension, exclusion and fiscal withholds.
Mr. Kirkpatrick has extensive experience in civil litigation in state and
federal courts as well as significant experience in appellate law, having
handled more than 200 appellate matters.
Mitchell J. Green
MG@BondCurtis.com
Mr. Green is a veteran litigator, with over 20 years of
experience. He started practice with the Texas Attorney General and moved
to California to work elbow to elbow with one of our
country's leading litigators at a one of San Francisco's largest firms. He later
opened his own firm, where he won several groundbreaking cases on behalf of
physicians, guaranteeing them the right to fair hearing before termination
by both insurance companies and IPAs. Mr. Green will bring his special
experience in physician litigation to our Physician's Advocacy Practice,
where he is representing physicians in both business and disciplinary
matters.
Peerapong Tantameng
PT@BondCurtis.com
Peerapong Tantameng received his law degreee from UCLA School of Law, his public health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health, and his undergraduate degree from Pomona College.
Mr. Tantameng is a health care attorney with regulatory, litigation, and transactional experience in areas such as contracting, antitrust, health policy, managed care, business opportunities, joing ventures, and medical privacy laws. Raised in a family and community of physicians, he skillfully represents and advocates on behalf of doctors, and is sensitive to the barrage of issues facing today’s medical professionals. Mr. Tantameng brings to the firm his ability to effectively communicate his knowledge of health law and regulations to the physician clients.
Prior to law school, Mr. Tantameng was a co-director alongside local medical students of a community health program in Boston’s Chinatown. He was involved with negotiations and working with various stakeholders, in cluding academic medical centers, hospitals, state and federal health agencies, and local political leaders. While in law school, he interned with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, an advocacy group for the rights of individuals with mental illness. He is a co-author of a Medicare chapter in the Health Law Practice Guide and an article on Hepatitis B prevention in the Boston Asian-American community.
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