Representative Experience
Mr. Layton has provided regulatory, general counseling and commercial litigation assistance to a wide range of companies, including some of the largest hospitals and healthcare systems in the nation, provider groups, IPAs, PHOs, MSOs, Medicare health plans, medical device companies and leading healthcare organizations.

He has extensive experience in the administrative, transactional and litigation aspects of health care law including:

• Managed Care Contracting
  
• Managed Care Network Formation
  
• Purchase/Sale of Physician Practices
  
• Purchase/Sale of medical office structures
  
• Physician Licensure and Regulatory Compliance
  
• Records Privacy Issues, HIPAA
  
• Anti-kickback and Physician Self-referral Regulation (Stark)
  
• Medical device importation and regulation
  
• Fraud and Abuse, RICO
  
• Unfair Competition
  
• Reimbursement Issues
  
• Professional Liability, Consent and Bio-Ethics

Prior Experience
Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Partner, McKenna & Cuneo

Senior Counsel, National Medical Enterprises

Partner, Wood, Lucksinger & Epstein

Associate, Flame, Sanger, Grayson & Ginsburg

Associate, Rudich & Wideman

Associate, Larscheid, Buchanan, Winengar & Kerlan

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association

American Health Lawyers Association

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Co-chairman, Health Committee

Education
J.D., University of California, Davis, 1974

B.A., cum laude, University of California, Davis, 1971