Rick Barton, ADL
ADL Announces the Appointment of Rick Barton as ADL's National Chair for
Education
Date: November 17, 2009
Mr. Barton is a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, a leading
San Diego law firm. He serves as litigation counsel and consultant to health
systems, hospitals, physician groups and individual providers in business, class
action, professional liability, fraud and abuse, and administrative matters in
both Federal and State court. In 1992, Mr. Barton began working in a volunteer
capacity for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in San Diego.
He served as the Chairman of the San Diego Regional Advisory Board from
1998-2002. In 2000, he was named an ADL National Commissioner and in
2002, became a member of ADL’s National Executive Committee. In 2005, he
was named National Vice Chair of International Affairs. He then served as
National Chair of Leadership from 2007 to 2009 which included responsibility
for managing ADL’s prestigious annual Shana Amy Glass National Leadership
Conference in Washington D.C.
The San Diego Regional Office is honored and proud to announce his
appointment as National Chairman for Education at ADL’s Annual Meeting in
New York this November.
As part of his involvement with ADL, Mr. Barton has traveled to the Middle East
and Europe for meetings with officials of the Israeli Government, the Palestinian
Authority, the United Nations and European Governments. He has served as a
contributor to the San Diego Union Tribune on the Israeli Palestinian conflict
and Anti-Semitism. He has lectured and is a regular speaker on the conflict in
the Middle East, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Religious Freedom, and Church-
State issues.
He is a recipient of ADL’s Torch of Liberty Award, ADL's highest honor for its
volunteer leadership.
Bio from Procopio website:
Richard ("Rick") Barton has represented health care providers for the past 25
years. He has served as litigation counsel on behalf of health systems,
hospitals, physician groups and individual providers in business, class action,
professional liability, fraud and abuse, and administrative matters in both
Federal and State court. He also serves as a consultant for hospitals, medical
staffs and physician groups in regulatory and compliance issues, medical staff
relations, physician relations with hospitals and medical staffs, and fair hearing
issues in both the medical staff and physician group context.
Mr. Barton began his career in 1982 with McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees, Sharkey
and McIntyre representing health care providers in professional liability actions.
He served as managing partner of the McInnis firm in 1996 and 1997. In 1999,
he joined Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, LLP as part of the McInnis-Higgs merger.
Mr. Barton has served in over 60 jury trials and has argued cases before the
California Court of Appeal, California Supreme Court and the 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals. In 2001, he was named Medical Staff counsel for Sharp Memorial
Hospital and now serves in that role for numerous hospitals and physician
groups. His clients have included Sharp Healthcare, Scripps Health, UCSD,
Palomar-Pomerado Hospital System, HCR Manorcare, Sun Health, Sharp Rees-
Stealy Medical Group, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, and Mission Viejo
Emergency Medical Associates.
Representative Matters
Mr. Barton has served as lead counsel before the California Courts of Appeal in:
* Williams vs. Superior Court (extending the protection of the Medical Injury
Compensation Reform Act ("MICRA") to ancillary health professionals)
* Heater vs. Southwood (extending immunity protection under the Lanterman,
Petris, & Short Act for mental health providers)
* Palmer vs. Superior Court (extending MICRA protection to the utilization
review process conducted under a delegated model by a physician group)
* Woo vs. Superior Court (accrual of statute of limitations against health care
providers)
* Sharp Memorial Hospital vs. Superior Court (Pancoast) (reaffirming deference
of trial court to Medical Staff in CCP Section 1094.5 Writ applications)
He also served as the primary author of an Amicus Curiae brief to the California
Supreme Court on behalf of Jewish and Islamic medical ethics scholars in
Benitez vs. North Coast Women's Group in a nationally publicized matter
involving the right of a physician to refuse treatment on religious grounds on
the basis of a patient's sexual orientation.
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