A Special Event for PIC M.D./D.O. and Doctoral Members

Mary Holland is on the faculty at NYU School of Law and directs its Graduate Lawyering Program.   She has written several law review and other articles on vaccine law and policy and is the co-author of Vaccine Epidemic (Skyhorse Pub. 2012) and The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for Generation Betrayed (Skyhorse 2018).  She has testified many state legislatures and at the United Nations.  She has appeared in several documentaries and on several networks on vaccine issues.  She serves on a number of advisory boards, including Children’s Health Defense and Health Choice.

Educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Holland has worked in international public and private law. Before joining NYU, she worked for many years at major U.S. law firms, with three years based in Moscow, Russia. She also worked at a U.S. human rights organization as Director of its European Program and clerked for a federal district court judge in the Southern District of New York after law school.

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For over three decades, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been one of the world’s leading environmental advocates. He is the founder and president of Waterkeeper Alliance, the umbrella group for 300 local waterkeeper organizations, in 34 countries, that track down and holds polluters accountable. Under his leadership, Waterkeeper has grown to become the world’s largest clean water advocacy organization.

Around 2005, parents of vaccine-injured children began encountering Mr. Kennedy’s speeches and writings about the toxic mercury-based preservative thimerosal. They embraced new hope that this environmental champion would finally expose the truth about vaccine injury and win justice for injured children. Kennedy is known for his fierce and relentless brand of environmental activism and his advocacy for transparent government and rigorous science.  He is the Chairman of the Board at Children’s Health Defense, whose mission is to end the epidemic of children’s chronic health conditions by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, apprehend those responsible, and establish safeguards so this never happens again.

Mr. Kennedy is also a bestselling author, as well as an esteemed environmental attorney.  Most recently, Mr. Kennedy was part of the legal team to successfully sue Monsanto in the landmark case Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Company. The case was the first Roundup case to go to trial and resulted in a final order for Monsanto to pay $78 million in damages.

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Greg Glaser is the general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent. Greg is also a vaccine rights attorney with a litigation and transactional law background. He is a graduate of UCLA and the University of San Francisco. As a lawyer, he is committed to protecting the fundamental right of informed consent and is devoted to helping doctors write medical exemptions to vaccination, in compliance with SB277.

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Toni Bark MD is a licensed medical doctor in Illinois. She trained in pediatrics and rehab medicine and has been medical director for a busy urban ER as well as two different integrative medical departments. She has been in private practice for 26 years and has served as a medical expert witness on vaccine injury and related vaccine issues in court. She has given testimony for multiple State health committees.

She also holds a master’s degree in medical disaster management from Boston University.

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Brad Hakala is the Managing Principal at The Hakala Law Group, P.C. located in Long Beach, California.  Mr. Hakala is licensed to practice law in the States of California and Texas, as well as within Federal Jurisdictions.  Mr. Hakala’s law practice primarily consists of wide range business representation, including an extensive background litigating in both State and Federal Courts.  Mr. Hakala received his undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University and his law degree from Loyola Law School.  During his approximately fourteen years of being a licensed attorney, Mr. Hakala has represented individuals and associations on a wide variety of complex litigation issues, including recently serving as lead counsel in a suit brought against the State of California to enjoin the enforcement of SB277 based on grounds of unconstitutionality.

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Mr. Simon has been engaged in the practice of law with focus on litigation and trial work in courts of various jurisdictions and states since 1989.

By 1999 Mr. Simon’s practice shifted its focus towards the representation of health care practitioners and health care entities in governmental regulatory enforcement and regulatory compliance actions. Those actions included state and federal healthcare related investigations, formal and informal show compliance conferences and interviews and formal disciplinary actions and hearings conducted before a variety of administrative tribunals. The practice also assisted healthcare practitioners in defending against overzealous insurance companies in civil insurance fraud cases related to complementary and alternative medicine and anti-aging healthcare services.

Currently, the practice still continues to represent all healthcare practitioners in all aspects of governmental compliance and licensing disciplinary matters with an expanded scope into preventative regulatory compliance audits and recommendations. Representation now includes preventive measures such as audits and compliance, practice structure and billing compliance as well as preliminary dispute handling vis a vis patients and state officials. Representation further entails handling of all stages of disciplinary proceedings from inception through court challenges, litigation, final agency disposition and court appeals. Services also include negotiation and completion of consent orders, supervision of implementation of the consent orders and post administrative action litigation, if such is necessary.

The unique legal approach to the industry’s particular disciplinary plagues are designed to save the practitioner’s license, livelihood and practice while preserving the practitioner’s reputation and integrity in the medical community as a whole as well as in the patient community. Preliminary meetings with prosecutors, post or mid litigation negotiation and preparation of consent orders on terms advantageous to the health care practitioner and avoidance of further prosecutions in other states where the practitioner holds a license are only some of the preventive measures offered by Mr. Simon’s practice.

Mr. Simon also focuses on emergency court interventions in the event of administrative raids and illegal searches and seizures and license summary suspensions. Praised by both judges and opposing attorneys including various state Assistant Attorneys General, Mr. Simon enjoys an excellent and solid national reputation in the legal community. Mr. Simon holds licenses to practice law in New York, Connecticut, Texas District of Columbia and Georgia. Mr. Simon’s healthcare legal services are highly in demand nationally. He represents clinics and healthcare individuals nationwide. In the jurisdictions where he does not possess a license Mr. Simon works with local counsel while strictly observing the local pro hac vice and out of state attorney representation rules of the bar or of the highest court of each state.

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Rick Jaffe, Esq. has been litigating high profile, cutting-edge medical legal issues for more than 30 years throughout the United States.  He is admitted to practice in California, New York and Texas and has offices in Sacramento, New York City and Houston. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he graduated with honors in the History and Philosophy of Science.  He is the author of Galileo’s Lawyer andactively writes on current health care legal issues at www.rickjaffe.com.

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