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Doris Dike
Charter Member
Health Care Law

6160 Warren Pkwy suite 100, Frisco, TX 75034, USA

 

We believe at Dike Law Group, PLLC, that experience matters for your business. Mrs. Dike’s healthcare industry expertise is both deep and wide. Her experience covers regulatory compliance, contracts, health care operations, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight. She also started and owns a healthcare business with her physician spouse. She has been a compliance officer, a chief legal officer of a hospital, regional firm attorney, and has her first degree in health administration. She has extensive experience drafting and reviewing provider agreements. She reviews physician and Nurse Practitioner contracts nationwide. At Dike Law Group we represent doctors, physician groups, clinical laboratories, durable medical equipment (DME) providers, home health agencies and health care professionals in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio and throughout Texas. Mrs. Dike has years of experience representing health care businesses and providers before regulatory agencies such as the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Board of Nursing, and responding to governmental agencies. Doris Dike is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Washington and Lee School of Law.

G. Douglas Dillard
Charter Member
Real Estate Law

1230 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA

 

Doug Dillard is one of Georgia’s most accomplished zoning and land use attorneys. He has helped clients for more than four decades resolve matters involving zoning, planning, land use, local government law, annexation and land use litigation. His experience with land use issues include complex zoning changes, special use permit applications, site plan reviews, subdivisions, easements, covenants, litigation and appeals. Doug has litigated and won many of the landmark zoning cases decided by the Georgia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. He also has worked proactively with local government officials, civic associations and business organizations to draft ordinances, statutes and local legislation as it affects land use. Doug actively promotes land development approval processes and regulations that support green building, affordable housing, and smart growth principles. He has served on the Mixed Income Communities Initiative for the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership to promote, create and preserve mixed-income communities in the greater Atlanta Region. Best Lawyers’ included Doug in its Georgia Best Lawyers list for 2016 – 2018 and named him Lawyer of the Year for Land Use Litigation in 2014 and 2018. His peers included him in the Georgia Top Lawyers list for 2016, which was published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Martindale-Hubbell awarded him the highest preeminent rating, and from 2012 -2018 named him a Georgia Top Rated Lawyer for Zoning, Planning and Land Use. Doug is currently listed in the Best Lawyers in Georgia as published in the Wall Street Journal. Before joining Pursley Friese Torgrimson as a partner in 2015, Doug served as a partner with Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco. Previously, he practiced with Dillard & Galloway, LLC for 14 years, and formerly with Peterson Dillard Young Self Asselin and Powell. He is a co-author of Zoning and Land Use in Georgia, a reference book for Georgia’s zoning and land use laws, and the only book of its kind in Georgia. Publications featuring his legal articles include Georgia State University Law Review, The Atlanta Lawyer and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. The Journal of Applied Real Estate Analysis includes him on their Editorial Advisory Board. Doug served as a guest lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Florida State University, the University of Georgia, Georgia State and the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He also served as an instructor for the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, the National Business Institute, the Georgia Real Estate Institute, the Dixie Land Title Association, Lorman Education Services and Law Seminars International. He is affiliated with many legal, real estate and civic organizations. Previously he served on the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of Georgia and the Board of the Atlanta Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. In the Atlanta community, Doug has participated in Leadership Georgia and the Regional Leadership Institute, and served as the Chairperson of Leadership DeKalb. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of Furman University, Chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Walter F. George School of Law Mercer University, and Treasurer, Board Member and Chair of the Council for Quality Growth. A champion of smart growth and religious freedom, Doug has fought to protect the rights of mosques and other houses of worship seeking to locate in areas where to best serve the needs of members. The New York native also is a strong supporter of the urban farming movement. His family operated one of the largest organic farms in North Georgia.

Mark J. Dillon
Charter Member
Environmental Law

5152 Tangerine Ln, Fallbrook, CA 92028, USA

 

Mark Dillon is recognized throughout California for his representation of public and private sector clients on significant matters involving land use, natural resources, and environmental planning and litigation. Mark assists clients in preparing and defending the adequacy of environmental impact reports and other documents for complex or controversial projects arising under CEQA and NEPA, and works in multiple environmental disciplines to advance his clients’ interests in this respect. Mark’s background also includes substantial experience with issues and litigation arising under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts; the National Historic Preservation Act; the federal Clean Water Act (section 404), including the section 404(b)(1) Guidelines; water quality certifications/waste discharge requirements under the federal Clean Water Act (section 401) and Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act; streambed alteration provisions of the California Fish & Game Code; “fully-protected” species and “take” provisions of the California Fish & Game Code; the Subdivision Map Act; and, the Planning and Zoning Law. Mark also has considerable expertise with matters concerning water supply/resources; wetlands and riparian habitat protections/requirements; property development agreements; General Plan and Specific Plan issues (including the preparation and amendment of same); and, federal and state hazardous waste laws and regulations. Mark is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating given to lawyers. The rating means that the legal community has rated his legal ability as very high, and has recognized his professional reliability, diligence, and faithful adherence to ethical standards.

Jan Dils
Distinguished Lawyer
Personal Injury Law

963 Market St, Parkersburg, WV 26101, USA

 

Jan Dils is the firm’s founder. She opened Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1994 as the solo attorney/employee. Today, she has a skilled and compassionate team of more than 118 serving clients throughout West Virginia, with offices in Parkersburg, Beckley, Charleston, Huntington and Logan, as well as one additional office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her passion is fighting for people who are all too often left helpless at the hands of corporations, insurance companies, Big Pharma, and government red tape. Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law, has 25 years of experience in all forms of Social Security and Disability benefits, Veteran’s Benefits and Personal Injury cases.

Phillip P. DiLucente
Distinguished Lawyer
Criminal Defense Law

310 Grant St suite 1801, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA

 

Phil understands that his clients want three things: to be heard, to be treated fairly, and to get justice. And he works tirelessly to make sure this happens. Phil’s pursuit of justice has made him to be selected as a member of America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers, and selected as a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is also listed as one of Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers. Phil is not afraid to go to trial. He has represented clients in trials for everything from DUIs to first-degree murder. He also has extensive experience representing people charged with white collar crimes. He has handled criminal cases in both State Court and Federal Court. Phil has a long history of advocating for his clients against government and law enforcement agencies. He was voted Pittsburgh’s Best Attorney in 2019 by the Pittsburgh city paper. He is also WPXI’s and PCNC’s Legal Analyst and has had many cases with national attention.