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Profile | Areas of Practice | Affiliations | Bar Admissions | Education | Position Lawyer Profile:Legal PracticeIn over 29 years of practice, Mr. Galland has had extensive experience as a civil trial lawyer and counselor in numerous different areas. He has tried numerous jury and bench cases to verdict in in state and federal courts in Illinois and other states, and many more cases in arbitrations or administrative hearings before various bodies. He also has extensive appellate experience, having been responsible for briefing and arguing over 50 decided appeals. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Illinois, in federal district courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, in the Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Tenth, and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. The following is a summary of the areas in which he has concentrated: 1. Employment law. From the start of his career, Mr. Galland and his firm have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in employment disputes. He has tried a large number of these cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has expertise in the federal employment discrimination laws, including sex discrimination, age discrimination, race discrimination, disability discrimination, religious discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation cases, and in claims of wrongful discharge under Illinois law. He has been principal counsel for plaintiffs in a number of landmark class actions. He currently has a substantial practice representing high-level executives in severance negotiations and litigation arising out of their terminations. As described below, he has been selected as a neutral by parties to major class action settlements to oversee the operation of long-term consent decrees or settlement agreements. 2. Service as a Neutral Monitor and Mediator. Mr. Galland has been named as Neutral Monitor to oversee two large class action settlements of cases brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) against automakers (Ford and Mitsubishi) accused of plantwide sexual harassment. In this capacity, Mr. Galland was responsible for deciding claims against a large damage fund, for hearing appeals from company decisions on sexual harassment claims, and for proposing and implementing improvements in the plants' policies to control and reduce sexual harassment. Mr. Galland also has developed a practice in recent years as a mediator and has successfully mediated several large-scale employment-discrimination class actions. 3. Health law. Mr. Galland has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in this area. For the past sixteen years he has been a principal outside counsel for several hospitals and clinics, including Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Rush North Shore Medical Center. In this capacity he has been referred some of these institutions' largest and most complex litigation matters, including the following: (a) Medical malpractice defense. Mr. Galland has defended and continues to defend hospitals, hospital-owned HMO's, and attending physicians and residents insured by the hospital's self-insurance programs, in a large number of medical malpractice cases in numerous areas of medical practice, including general surgery, neurosurgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, radiology, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, cardiology, and other areas. He has extensive and successful jury trial experience in these cases and extensive appellate experience as well. The cases Mr. Galland has defended for these hospital clients have involved the entire range of medical malpractice issues, not only on substantive medical matters but on actual and apparent agency problems, staff-model and contract-model HMO liability issues, contribution and indemnification issues, and the like. He has also defended cases under the federal anti-dumping act. (b) Affiliation and disaffiliation issues. Mr. Galland has advised hospital clients in disputes arising from affiliation and disaffiliation agreements and litigation arising out of those agreements. (c) Third-party payor litigation. Mr. Galland has represented hospitals, hospital-owned HMOs, and in some instances hospital patients in disputes with third-party payors over coverage of procedures, including attempted denials of payment for supposedly experimental procedures. (d) Staff privilege disputes. Mr. Galland has represented hospitals in a number of matters involving revocation or restriction of staff privileges of attending physicians, or termination or other discipline of residents. Before he began representing hospitals in this area, he handled a number of significant lawsuits for attending physicians who were expelled from their medical staffs. (e) Medical school matters. Mr. Galland has advised Rush Medical College in numerous issues involving medical students, including several major lawsuits in state and federal court involving terminated medical students. (f) Hospital governance, intra-hospital grievance procedures and due process matters. Mr. Galland has advised hospitals on staff by-law revisions. He advises hospital committees charged with hearing internal complaints from attending physicians or faculty members, in order to assure that the matters are resolved fairly and in compliance with applicable by-laws and due process requirements. (g) Insurance issues. Mr. Galland advises his hospital clients in a wide range of insurance disputes arising from the hospitals' self-insurance programs and their relation with excess insurers, and has handled a number of large-scale lawsuits arising out of such matters. These cases have involved issues include the entire gamut of insurance law, including notice issues, bad-faith-denial claims, contribution disputes among co-insurers, and many other areas. (h) Physician disciplinary matters. Mr. Galland has represented physicians in licensure proceedings instituted by the Illinois Department of Registration and Education. (i) Qui tam and anti-kickback investigation matters. Mr. Galland has advised hospitals and physicians on matters arising out of qui tam lawsuits and federal investigations into allegations of improper billing of Medicare and Medicaid clients. (j) Other medico-legal claims. Mr. Galland has defended hospital clients in a number of claims under federal and state employment discrimination laws. He has defended hospital officers and employees in several major libel and slander lawsuits arising out of public commentary on issues of medical importance. He represented a hospital-owned HMO in a major class action accusing the HMO of violating the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and other legal doctrines as a result of failure to disclose supposed conflicts of interest. 4 . Municipal law. Mr. Galland served as principal trial counsel for Mayor Harold Washington and his allies during the 1980's litigation over control of the City Council. He then agreed to serve for a year as chief legal officer of the Chicago Park District, during which time he revamped the Park District's law department and personally litigated its major municipal-law, taxation, and employment matters. 5. Labor-management law. Mr. Galland represented for many years a major state employee union in the entire range of labor law issues, including unfair labor practice litigation, arbitrations over contract issues, employee termination hearings and lawsuits, and related class action work over employee benefits and salary levels. As the Chicago Park District's chief legal officer in 1986-1987, he was responsible for the District's labor relations in all respects, and continued to handle legal matters for the District in this area for some years thereafter. 6. Other litigation. Mr. Galland has represented clients in major legal malpractice litigation (for both plaintiffs and defendants); in environmental cleanup disputes; in insurance litigation over environmental cleanup costs; in Lanham Act and other unfair competition litigation; in First Amendment and other federal and Illinois constitutional matters; and in many other kinds of business litigation raising contract and tort claims of various kinds. Organized Bar and Community Service Activities Mr. Galland is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers. He was President of the Council for two terms, from 1983 through 1985, and has held many different posts in that organization, including being the head of its state judicial evaluation process. Among other community service activities, Mr. Galland has served since 1999 as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Abraham Lincoln Center for Self-Reliance, one of Chicago's oldest social services agencies, which provides a broad range of social services to residents of the Bronzeville and Mid-South Side areas of Chicago. He is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Current Employment Position(s):PartnerEducation:University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1973J.D. Honors: Order of the Coif Princeton University, 1967 B.A. Bar Admissions :Illinois, 1973U.S. Supreme Court, 1982 Areas of Practice :Employment LawHealth Law Insurance Law Labor Management Law Medical Malpractice - Defense Municipal Law Professional Associations and Memberships:American Bar AssociationMember Chicago Council of Lawyers Member Abraham Lincoln Center for Self-Reliance, 1999 - Present Chair, Board of Trustees Past Employment Positions:Chicago Park District, Acting General Attorney and Chief Legal Officer,1986 - 1987 Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., Associate, 1973 - 1976 |
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