Lisa D. Taylor is a partner with the law firm of Stern & Kilcullen, and director of its Health Care Law Group. She also serves as a neutral arbitrator and mediator and represents attorneys in disciplinary matters and counsels them as to ethics rules.
Ms. Taylor received her law degree and a masters degree in Philosophy from Duke University and graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University. Ms. Taylor is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Tennessee and the District of Columbia and is admitted to appear before numerous Federal Courts.
Prior to joining Stern & Kilcullen as a partner in 2006, Ms. Taylor had been associated with, and a partner of, national law firms with offices in New York and New Jersey and served as a judicial clerk for Justice Robert Clifford of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Ms. Taylor was also affiliated with the legal departments of a major university medical center and a physician practice management company.
Ms. Taylor has served on the American Medical Association's Doctors Advisory Network and was a Charter Member of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Network of Practice Management Consultants. She was also selected as an Approved Healthcare Consultant by the American Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons. Ms. Taylor has been listed in "Who's Who in American Law" and is rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Ms. Taylor is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum which gives recognition to lawyers throughout the United States who have achieved a trial verdict, award or settlement in the amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) or more and was named as one of ten attorneys nationally as 2004 Outstanding Physician Practice Lawyers by Nightingale's Healthcare News. She was named one of the Top 50 Female New Jersey Super Lawyers by New Jersey Monthly Magazine in April 2006, 2007 and 2008, and May 2005; and one of the Top 100 New Jersey Super Lawyers by New Jersey Monthly Magazine in May 2005, in April 2007 and 2008. In August 2005, she was named to the New Jersey Law Journal's list of leading women and minority attorneys. In May 2007, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the New Jersey State Bar Association Health & Hospital Sector.
A frequent speaker on health care and ethics matters, the groups that Ms. Taylor has addressed include the American Medical Association, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the National and American Health Lawyers Associations, the New Jersey State and American Bar Associations, the New Jersey Hospital Association, the New Jersey Psychological Association, the New Jersey Health Information Management Association, the New Jersey College Health Association, the Guardianship Association of New Jersey, the National Association of Social Workers - New Jersey Chapter, the Society of Healthcare Risk Management - New Jersey, the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.
In addition to having been a monthly columnist for OT Practice Magazine, a Contributing Editor for Health Care Fraud & Abuse Newsletter and serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of Medical Staff Briefing, Ms. Taylor has published numerous articles and has contributed to several books including The Physician's Comprehensive Guide to Negotiating, The Biggest Legal Mistakes Physicians Make and How to Avoid Them, the Representing Physicians Handbook and West's Health Law Practice Guide. She previously served as a faculty member for the "Medicine and the Law" course at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has lectured at the Fannie Mitchell Career Conference at Duke University and has also been featured as an ethics consultant for WABC-TV (New York) Eyewitness News.
Ms. Taylor is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association Health and Hospital Law Section for which she served as Chairman for 2004-2005 and has served six terms as Vice Chair of the Physician Organizations Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association. She formerly served as Chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court District VC Ethics Committee and as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility. She also previously served on the Boards of Directors of the Greater New Jersey and Northern New Jersey Chapters of the Alzheimer's Association, the Junior League of Morristown, West Essex Community Health Services, Inc. and Advanced Community Health Systems, Inc., for which she served as Chairman.
