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As a partner in our Healthcare practice, Amanda applies a practical and creative approach to her matters to achieve favorable results for her clients.\nAs a healthcare litigator, Amanda has extensive experience managing large multi-party, multi-million dollar disputes, litigating business contract and tort disputes, prosecuting and defending actions brought by large healthcare payors against hospital providers, heading up international white collar crime investigations for global healthcare device manufacturers, and providing advice on healthcare law and reform topics. She represents hospitals and hospital systems, provider groups, surgery centers, individual physicians, and other healthcare entities.\nAmanda advises clients on the full scope of health care law including the Affordable Care Act, Covered California’s health care exchange, Sequestration, California’s Health and Safety Code, the Knox Keene Act, the False Claims Act, Employment Law, ERISA litigation, RICO actions, HIPAA, Healthcare Reform, and numerous other substantive areas relevant to our clients.\nShe regularly appears in federal and state trial and appellate courts on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in various types of commercial litigation actions including contract disputes, commercial torts, unfair business practices, fraud allegations, real estate disputes, intellectual property disputes, and real estate disputes. 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