ArentFox Schiff

Health

Partner

Debra guides clients through the most sophisticated and cutting-edge health care litigation matters, particularly those involving medical staffs and peer review.

Debra focuses her practice on complicated health care and medical staff peer review hearings and litigation. She represents many of California’s largest hospitals, health systems, and medical staffs, and has served as the lead attorney on numerous high-profile federal, state, and appellate matters in courts and tribunals across the country. A tenacious health care litigator, Debra has argued before the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeals, and prevailed in establishing significant anti-SLAPP protections for medical staffs in peer review matters.

California Society of Healthcare Attorneys, Member American Health Lawyers Association, Member California Association of Medical Staff Services, Member Board of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Chair

University of Southern California, JD, 1983

University of California, Los Angeles, BA, Art History, cum laude, 1980