Terri D. Keville
Partner
Terri Keville focuses on helping her healthcare provider clients avoid and minimize healthcare operations problems and disputes, so they can reduce their legal risks and costs. When litigation cannot be avoided, Terri’s litigation practice emphasizes case-dispositive motions and appeals.
Terri advises clients on the full range of medical staff matters, including credentialing; peer review; and medical staff bylaws, rules, and policies. Terri’s practice also focuses on confidentiality of medical information (HIPAA and CMIA)—including for media clients dealing with healthcare content; consent, including end-of-life issues; emergency care requirements (EMTALA) including for media clients dealing with healthcare content; and clinical research.
Terri has defended hospitals, medical staff, and physician groups against claims by individual physicians for wrongful exclusion involving complex issues of alleged disability discrimination, substance abuse, peer-review duties and procedural rights, and the interplay of those elements with physician employment or partnership agreements. Terri has made new, favorable law for California healthcare organizations in cases involving physician peer review, Medicare and ERISA preemption, and California’s Unfair Competition Law. In 2014, Best Lawyers named Terri Health Care Lawyer of the Year for Los Angeles.
Practice Highlights
Patient care
Bylaw and policy creation
Peer review
Peer Review Litigation
Amicus Curiae Representation
Admitted to Practice
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California
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
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U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
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U.S. District Court Central District of California
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U.S. District Court Northern District of California
Education
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J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 1992
- Order of the Coif
- Articles Editor, Southern California Law Review
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Graduate Studies, Philosophy, California State University, Northridge, 1974
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B.A., Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Vice Chair, Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health (SUDMH) Interest Group (previously Task Force), 2014; SUDMH Interest Group Liaison to Health Law Section Policy Committee, 2018 ; Member, Medical Legal Partnership Work Group, 2018 – Health Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member; President, March 2004-March 2005 – California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
- Vice Chair, Oct. 2014-Sept. 2015; Member, Oct. 2011-Sept. 2015 – California State Bar Health Law Committee
- President, 2008-2012; Board of Directors, 2005-present – Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library
- Co-chair, Joint Committee on Biomedical Ethics, Los Angeles County Medical Association and Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Executive Committee, Appellate Courts Section; Past Member and Co-chair, Bioethics Committee, 2000-2002; Member, Healthcare Law Section – Los Angeles County Bar Association
- State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2019-2022
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Women in Health Administration
- California Public Protection and Physician Health, Attorney Advisory Group
Professional Recognition
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- Selected by Best Lawyers as Los Angeles' "Lawyer of the Year" in Health Care, 2014
- Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America," in Health Law by Best Lawyers, 2007-present
- Named one of "America’s Leading Lawyers for Business" in Health Care (California) by Chambers USA, 2007-2019
- Selected to "Southern California Super Lawyers" by Thomson Reuters in Health Care, 2004-2019; in Appellate, 2004-2019; in Business Litigation, 2004-2019
- Named in Who's Who in America, 2006-present
- Named in Who's Who in American Law, 2005-2011
- Named in Who's Who of American Women, 2007, 2010
