Brock D. Phillips is a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group, LLP, with over thirty 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 specializing 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. He regularly represents physicians and medical groups in civil court, regulatory hearings and hospital disciplinary hearing. Brock also frequently serves as a hearing officer in medical staff peer review hearings throughout California and has been a presenting faculty member at a program to train other hearing officers.
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 Handbood. 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. In 2008, Mr. Phillips was one of only 23 health care attorneys named to the list of Super Lawyers for Northern California. He was again named to the list of health care Super Lawyers in 2009, 2010 and most recently in 2011.
Mr. Phillips can be reached by telephone at 415 381-0805, or by e-mail at phillips@pacificwestlaw.com
