Linda is a founding partner and a consummate health care attorney.  Her practice focuses on health care operational and litigation issues. Licensed in both Texas and Kentucky, she represents hospitals, physicians and various non-physician health care providers in a wide variety of medical issues and claims. Hospitals frequently seek her guidance on issues involving day-to-day operations and delivery of care.  Clients benefit from both her legal abilities and the exceptional business acumen she developed in her former career as a corporate executive for a worldwide medical gas and equipment company.  Having been in the shoes of both attorney and client, Linda has an uncommon ability to analyze as well as anticipate the needs of health care providers and institutions.

• Advises hospitals, physicians and other health care providers in a variety of issues; including operational, managed care, contractual, compliance, regulatory and governance matters.
• Defends health care providers and institutions in medical malpractice lawsuits.
• Negotiates complex litigation settlement agreements and annuities.
• Serves as a standing committee member on health care organization committees to provide general legal risk management advice.
• Creates and improves existing medical record forms.
• Represents health care institutions in connection with peer review, credentialing and provider disciplinary proceedings.
• Prepares health care providers for appearance before state licensure authorities.
• Handles all facets of patient complaints and grievances against health care providers and associated investigations by state licensure authorities.
• Provides advice to hospitals and physicians on compliance with HIPAA, EMTALA, JCAHO, and a variety of day-to-day operational issues and questions.
• Assists health care providers and institutions in the preparation of various policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
• Reviews and revises vendor and licensing contracts for health care institutions to provide protection on risk issues.
• Creates and improves existing hospital bylaws.
• Advises health care providers on research protocols.

• Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D.
  University of Kentucky, B.A.

• “How to Avoid Malpractice”
•  “Annual Chart Documentation Presentation,” Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas
• “Managing Sentinel Events,” V.H.A. Leadership Conference, Dallas, Texas
• “Patient Confidentiality,” V.H.A. Quality Council, Dallas, Texas
• “Tort Reform Update,” East Texas Medical Centers Hospital System, Tyler, Texas
• “An Overview of ADR and Mediation in Texas,” State Bar of Texas/Advanced Personal Injury (paper and presentation), Dallas, Texas
• “How to Cross Examine a Medical Malpractice Expert,” State Bar Texas/Advanced Evidence (paper and presentation), Dallas, Texas
• “House Bill 4 Panel Discussion,” State Bar of Texas/Advanced Evidence (paper and presentation), Dallas, Texas
• “Annual Quality Assurance/Risk Management Review,” Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas
• “The Art of the Apology,” UT Southwestern Medical Center, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas Children’s, Zale Lipshy Hospital and St. Paul University Hospital, Dallas, Texas
• “Advance Directives,” Society of Physician’s Office Managers, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
• “Annual Education Day – Ethics, Palliative Care, Guardianship and End of Life Issues”
• “Risk Management for Physicians”
• “Deposition/Mock Trial Presentation”
• “Risk Management Practices in the Emergency Department”
• “Initiating the Chain of Command – A Nurse’s Duty to Intervene”
• "Union Free Environment - Dos & Don'ts"
• "Employment - Legal Compliance Issues"
• "Advancing Clinical Expertise:  Law, Liability and Your License.", February 20, 2009

• Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly, 2006-2009
• American Health Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association – Health Law Section
• State Bar of Texas – Health Law Section
• Dallas Bar Association – Health Law Section
• Dallas Association of Defense Counsel
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• Texas Bar Foundation – Fellow
• Defense Research Institute
• Lawdragon “Leading Lawyer in America”
• Member, Editorial Board, Practical Health Law

• Texas
• Kentucky
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas