Terri D Keville

Practice Areas

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); and clinical research.

Terri has defended hospitals, medical staffs, 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.

Professional Memberships

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-present; Member, Medical Legal Partnership Work Group, 2018-present – 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

Conflict Resolution and Clinical-Setting Mediation Certification, The Center for Conflict Resolution in Healthcare LLC

American Health Lawyers Association

Women in Health Administration Southern California

California Public Protection and Physician Health, Attorney Advisory Group