The Horowitz Physician Defense Law Group, led by Daniel Horowitz specializes in providing comprehensive physician defense for doctors facing a variety of challenges including peer review, sham peer review, Medical Board Investigations, Accusation defense and criminal defense.
The experienced legal team includes Physician and Lawyer Mark Ravis. Dr. Ravis is fully licensed as both an attorney and medical doctor.
Brookes Hammock:
Physican defense lawyer Brookes Hammock is renowned for his technical skills and cutting edge legal analysis. Brookes was formerly with the medical board of Ohio.
Areas of Medical-Legal Practice
License Defense: Medical licensing board lawyer, Daniel Horowitz, provides a tactical and robust defense against Medical Board License actions, Accusations and investigations, to ensure your professional credentials remain intact. Our medical licensing board experts focus on contested matters where a valid license is placed at risk or a renewal is threatened due to pending peer review, criminal charges or other adverse matters.
Medical Board Accusation Representation: We represent doctors during pre-Accusation investigations and negotiating resolutions. Our medical trial lawyers and medical experts provide evidence based defenses and sophisticated legal responses to medical board accusations. Our attorneys are the best at administrative hearings, especially when the medical board is unreasonable. Medical Board hearings are held before an OAH administrative law judge (Office of Administrative Hearings). Our trial lawyers are among the most experienced in the State of California with experience in thousands of contested evidentiary hearings.
Peer Review: We excel in peer review cases, protecting your reputation and career during critical evaluations. We intervene at the investigative stage and understand summary suspensions, discipline and medical board reporting, We will protect you against National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) reporting and credentialing impacts.
Healthcare Fraud Defense: Our adept handling of healthcare fraud allegations safeguards your practice and livelihood. We have three certified criminal defense specialists expert in Stark violations, AKS and billing fraud.
Whistleblower Protections: We are expert in H&S 1278.5 and other whistleblower protections for physicians. We have taken these cases to trial and have published extensively on this topic. Our medical license lawyers understand how “disruptive physician” and other labels are used to target and silence physician whistleblowers.
Expertise: With decades of experience, our physician lawyer team understands the intricacies of medical doctor defense, protecting licenses, defending against peer review, and the necessity of aggressive representation in criminal matters and whistleblowing cases.
Comprehensive Defense: We integrate all aspects of physician representation. Initial peer review investigations may relate to contract law or malpractice allegations. Privilege restrictions may following whistleblowing. Criminal charges, disruptive physician allegations relate strategically to potential to medical board hearings. We see the entire picture and plan accordingly.
Proven Success: Our track record speaks for itself, with successful defenses for physicians across California and throughout the United States. Our cases have been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Times, CNN, MSNBC and Fox news. Our cases against John Muir Health led to the closure of their PICU until improvements were made. Our physician clients have recovered millions of dollars in civil lawsuits.
Dr. Mark Ravis: Healthcare license defense by Dr. Ravis focuses on the realities of day to day practice. Any single act can be dissected but the realities of medical practice require that a doctor be viewed with the understanding that medicine is not just a science, but an art too. As a practicing medical doctor and lawyer, Dr. Ravis understands the complexities of medical practice under scrutiny. He is a staunch advocate of physician independence in decision making. In peer review cases, Dr. Ravis speaks directly to the investigating doctors, sharing his specific medical experience combined with his legal perspective.
Brookes Hammock: Attorney (in Ohio & Pennsylvania) & Former Ohio Medical Board Staff Member with expertise in license and technical areas of physician law. As a medical board licensing lawyer, Brookes will assist in applications which are “stuck” or facing unusual issues.
Michael Yates, D.C., Chiropractor and law school graduate with expertise in orthopedics. Dr. Yates has owned and operated a surgery center.
Daniel Horowitz, Physician Lawyer and leader of the Horowitz Medical Defense Group. Daniel is a Top 100 Trial Lawyer, Board Certified Specialist in Criminal Defense Law (State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization), Law School Professor, and Television Legal Commentator with CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other media outlets.
Our Services:
Medical Board Defense: Our healthcare license attorneys represent physicians in front of the MBC and OMBC, ensuring your rights are protected.
Peer Review: Prevention and active defense.
Disruptive Physician Defense: Assertive Physician behavior in the interest of patients is often twisted into a sham “disruptive physician” attack which can lead to harsh consequences. We are expert in defending these cases and protecting the doctor's right and obligation to advocate for patients. We are experts in AMA, California case law, and whistleblower statute protections for doctors falsely accused of being a disruptive physician.
Appeals: If you face disciplinary actions, we navigate the appeals process to challenge adverse rulings.
Legal Guidance: We provide ongoing legal support to help you maintain compliance and avoid any future issues.
Criminal Defense: A simple DUI is only an inconvenience, that is, unless you are a physician. License implications from any criminal offense will impact your license. Major Healthcare fraud requires the highest level of legal skills and few, if any, offices in the entire State can place three board certified criminal defense specialists on a single case.
Office Location
Located in Lafayette, California (Contra Costa County), we serve doctors throughout the United States. Our associated physician lawyer Dr. Mark Ravis has his office in the Los Angeles area (Calabasas), while attorney Brookes Hammock is licensed in Pennsylvania and Ohio. We represent medical doctors anywhere in California and in most locations nationwide. We are licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, Federal Courts, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Courts of Appeal.
Recent medical cases include the successful defense of a vaccine clinic whose doctor was investigated for directing extra doses to Seniors in need, resulting in a verdict of $ 1.7 million dollars, in favor of a Board Certified Urologist who was unjustly targeted by his medical group as he resisted a takeover by corporate interests, a dismissal of a filed Accusation, the termination of an active Medical Board Investigation, and a “no file” of criminal charges when a medical office was raided and records seized.
Note: No ethical lawyer can “guarantee” a result. We can “guarantee” that we care deeply about our clients and we will honestly and vigorously defend you.
Court Admissions
Daniel Horowitz is admitted to practice in the State of California and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Courts in numerous jurisdictions. He appears in administrative law courts and at peer review hearings throughout the United States. We have established relationships with high level attorneys in many states including Texas, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
Daniel Horowitz has appeared in federal courts nationwide and is admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
International Legal Work
Daniel Horowitz has appeared in courtrooms in The Netherlands, Israel, Canada, and Cyprus. He has taken depositions in China and Ukraine. His international cases include representation of former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Pavel Lazarenko, an American businessman charged with crimes committed in China, representation of a U.S. corporation in Ukraine and Russia. These cases had Horowitz traveling internationally and negotiating resolutions with high ranking government officials, mobsters and business people in these countries.
Academic – Publishing
Daniel Horowitz is a teacher to both lawyers and law students. He regularly lectures to attorney groups and publishes in legal journals. He is a continuing education instructor and a prior law school and college instructor. Horowitz is a lecturer to criminal defense lawyers who are preparing for the criminal specialist examination in California. He has lectured at the CPDA/CACJ death penalty college in Monterey. Publications include the CEB Real Property Reporter, Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Journal, CPDA Magazine and other national and local bar journals.
Top National Ratings
Daniel Horowitz is nationally known as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer. He is recognized as a California “Super Lawyer”. Few attorneys in the nation have taken as many high complexity cases to jury trial. Daniel has been lead counsel in 1000’s of contested hearings and lead counsel in over 200 jury trials. If you need surgery, you select an experienced surgeon. No amount of paper experience compensates for inexperience in the OR. Daniel’s trial experience and national recognition make all the difference when you are in a courtroom. Objections in court must be made within 1/2 a second or it is often too late. Years of trials allows Daniel to anticipate issues and problems so that the solution is at his fingertips. Trial experience for a medical board case translates into negotiation power. Opponents can understand your position and Daniel can meet, confer and negotiate a fair resolution. You can negotiate without “losing face” because Daniel’s trial reputation precedes him. You have the assurance that if negotiation fails you are not bluffing. Daniel can still make your case in court. Daniel’s trials include defense of medical fraud, medical employment law, personal injury and wrongful death. His criminal cases include 8 death penalty trials and over 40 murder trials.
One final comment. Disbelief or hope are not your friends. While you are inactive, hoping for the best, your opponents are active. They are preparing their case. Medical board, peer review and criminal cases do not go away on their own. They get worse even though you may be unaware of the progression of the problem. We phrased that last sentence to deliberately mirror a medical situation so that you understand the severity of these situations. We understand that money spent on attorneys is a waste in the sense that it does not feed your family or build your practice. However, choosing to delay with false hope only makes matters worse. Medical malpractice policies often provide some coverage for medical board matters. We can help you with these coverage requests.
“Despite his kindness, I have never once doubted his ability to provide me with THE BEST representation in court.”
He is approachable but serious. Mr. Horowitz is the perfect balance of what someone wants in a lawyer. Not only is he approachable enough to gain and value your trust, but he's a bulldog in the courtroom. Despite his kindness, I have never once doubted his ability to provide me with THE BEST representation in court. I'm so thankful to have found a lawyer capable of such a delicate balancing act.
Molly A.
“The Best Attorney I Could Have Asked For”
Dan Horowitz was the best attorney I could have asked for during a difficult time in my career. From the moment I met him, I felt believed, respected, and safe. He and his team were endlessly responsive and empathetic to me and my family. He fought for my case day and night, always keeping my best interests at the forefront of his mind. As I learned from Dan, it is never a good time in one’s life to need legal representation - but if you need it, Dan is your person, your advocate, and your best friend. We are forever grateful for his tireless commitment to justice for the people.
Katherine
“Tough, humble, has integrity - simply THE best.”
Tough, humble, has integrity - simply THE best. With Dan it is not so much about the money but about doing what is right. A very rare breed. He has honesty and integrity and the jurys see it. If he doesn't believe in the case or the client he won't waste your time or his. But you better listen to him!...Believe an trust in him. I did and I am totally indebted to him. He is "The best of the best." Thank you Dan for all you have done and continue to do. Carole~ Arbuckle v. Board of Chiropractic Examiners
