Michael D. McClelland

Hi, I'm Michael D. McClelland, a healthcare lawyer and lobbyist, solving problems for healthcare entreprenuers.

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McClelland Advocacy, Ltd. is a law firm unlike others. MA is an elite, specialty practice serving clients in the healthcare industry, including entrepreneurs, medical groups, and health plans. Our clients are involved in every facet of healthcare. All are market leaders in California, and all use MA to set the agenda. McClelland Advocacy was founded by Michael D. McClelland on the belief that the client needs should shape their representation, not the other way around. At MA, our experts determine whether a client's needs require a solution in the courts, the Capitol, or in the public square. Our team then deploys resources in the most advantageous forum. From our base in California's capitol, MA serves clients throughout California including the most significant participants in California's healthcare marketplace. From Los Angeles to the Inland Empire to the central coast and Sacramento, MA is shaping the healthcare debate. A Winning Argument. Everywhere you need to be.

Partner at Goodman & Associates

March 2011 - November 2011

Chair of Healthcare Practice Group representing entities in managed care and related litigation. Also representing entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies in business and intellectual property litigation and trial and appellate matters.

Chief of Enforcement at Cal. Dept. Managed Health Care

January 2007 - February 2011

Associate at Jackson Lewis LLP

1999 - 2001

Campaign Consultant, Lobbyist at The Adminitration and Campaigns of Governor Pete Wilson

June 1994 - September 1997

Pete Wilson Cmte: Finance Section Pete Wilson Inaugural Cmte: Ticketing and Finance Section Pete Wilson for Pres. Cmte: Deputy Director, National Coalitions Dept of Rehabilitation: Legislative Specialist Cal. Dept. Fair Employ. & Housing: Acting Legislative Director

President at McClelland Advocacy, Ltd.

October 2011

McClelland Advocacy, Ltd. is a law firm unlike others. MA is an elite, specialty practice serving clients in the healthcare industry, including entrepreneurs, medical groups, and health plans. Our clients are involved in every facet of healthcare. All are market leaders in California, and all use MA to set the agenda. McClelland Advocacy was founded on the belief that the client needs should shape their representation, not the other way around. At MA, our experts determine whether a client's needs require a solution in the courts, the Capitol, or in the public square. Our team then deploys resources in the most advantageous forum. From our base in California's capitol, MA serves clients throughout California including the most significant participants in California's healthcare marketplace. From Los Angeles to the Inland Empire to the central coast and Sacramento, MA isshaping the healthcare debate. A Winning Argument. Everywhere you need to be.

Principal at Arterial Consulting Organization

March 2011

ACO is the cutting edge, demand driven joint venture of California law firm McClelland Advocacy, Ltd., and Mann, Urrutia Nelson & Associates, a multi-state accounting firm. ACO was born from both firms recognition that medical groups in the delegated model suffered from a lack of coordinated accounting, compliance and legal services. ACO fills that void, giving its clients the confidence that every interconnected question has been considered, every base has been covered, on a budget which makes sense for your practice. McClelland Advocacy, Ltd. is a Sacramento-based specialty healthcare law firm. Its attorneys represent clients throughout California, including health plans, medical groups, and direct primary care practices. Mann, Urrutia Nelson & Associates is a multi-office accounting firm stretching from Sacramento to Kauai. The firm provides a range of accounting, auditing, valuation, forensic, tax, and other services to clients, with experience in representing physicians.

California Western School of Law

1996 – 1999

j.d., cum laude

California State University-Sacramento

1991 – 1996

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Concentration: Political Science and Government