Practice Areas

Linda Randlett Kollar received her Bachelor’s Degree in American Studies from Scripps College, Claremont, California, in 1966.  She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Pepperdine University in 1985, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.  She clerked for the Honorable Steven J. Stone, presiding Justice of Division 6 of the Second District Court of Appeal.

Ms. Kollar specializes in the representation of behavioral health care providers, including licensed non-profit community care facilities that provide residential treatment and foster care for children, and health care professionals including physicians, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and marriage, family and child counselors, throughout California.  Ms. Kollar devotes a substantial part of her practice to advising these behavioral health care providers on licensure, representing them in administrative and civil litigation, false claims matters including OIG investigations and qui tam litigation, in contract negotiations, as well as on the formation of integrated services and managed care issues.  Ms. Kollar represents many of the non-profit child welfare and behavioral health care providers with respect to their day-to-day operations, including responding to subpoenas, governmental reporting and regulatory compliance.  She also has expertise in the areas of special education, privacy, confidentiality, HIPAA and minor’s consent for treatment issues.

Ms. Kollar has a significant amount of experience in business law and litigation, including appellate work.  Ms. Kollar’s litigation experience includes environmental, employment, and real property matters, including trials, opinion letters, and client counseling (see attached listing of representative cases).

She has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer review rating “AV” and also selected every year by her peers (since 2004) as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers in Los Angeles Magazine.  In 2000, she was awarded the David & Margaret Home Award for Reflections in Excellence for her outstanding services to children and the community agencies which care for them (see attached listing for additional professional affiliations).

Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Kollar was a social worker with the Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services, where she worked as an investigator on behalf of abused and neglected children for the juvenile court, and was responsible for placing children in foster care and treatment facilities.  Ms. Kollar had responsibility for working with families and the courts in order to do both short term and long term planning for children.

Ms. Kollar has lectured throughout the United States as a speaker at the Child Welfare League of America Regional Conferences, has gained recognition for her expertise throughout California, and is a sought-after speaker.  She has lectured to a variety of trade organizations, as well as providing in-service training to the many providers she represents.

Ms. Kollar has written numerous legal articles and articles on child welfare.  She recently contributed to the book, Supervision and Related Issues:  A Handbook for Professionals.

Representative Matters

In re Jeremy C (2004) WL 1803270;
Ostby v. Oxnard Union School District, et al. (2002) 209 F. Supp. 2d 1035;
Sharrer v. Zettel (2005) WL 885129 (N.D. Cal.);
David Melamed, M.D. v. Cliff Allenby, et al. (1999) WL 33901488;
Lucas v. Bankes (1992) 9 Cal.App.4th 365;
Green v. Future 2 (1986) 179 Cal.App.3d 738;
Wilshire Westwood Associates v. Atlantic Richfield Corp., et al. (1989) 881 F.2d 801 (9th Cir.)

Lectures

Ms. Kollar has lectured throughout the United States as a speaker at the Child Welfare League of America Regional Conferences, has gained recognition for her expertise throughout California, and is a sought after speaker. She has lectured to a variety of trade organizations, as well as providing in-service training to the many providers she represents. Some of her most recent lectures include:

May, 2001. Medical Education Services, Mental Health Providers: Responding to Subpoenas, San Diego, California

June, 2001. Florence Crittenton of Orange County, Confidentiality, Privacy & Privilege, Fullerton, California

July, 2001. Foster Family Treatment Assoc., Coping with Legal Liability, Atlanta, Georgia

October, 2001. Alliance of Children & Family Services, Liability and Child Welfare: Understanding the Scope, San Rafael, California

March, 2002. Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services, Confidentiality and Privacy Issues, Los Angeles, California

August, 2002. The Sycamores, Confidentiality and Privacy Issues, Pasadena, California

October, 2002. The California Alliance of Children and Family Services, HIPAA and the Private Child Welfare Provider, San Francisco, California

May, 2003. Medical Education Services, Mental Health and the Law: Responding to Subpoenas, Court Orders and Law Enforcement, Los Angeles, California

September, 2003. Moss Beach Homes, Inc., Current Legal Issues Affecting Child Welfare Agencies, Turlock, California

March, 2004. The Law and Social Work, University of Southern California Graduate School, Los Angeles, California

March, 2004. Hollygrove Children & Family Services, Confidentiality, Privacy & Privilege, Los Angeles, California

May, 2004. Penny Lane Foster Family Agency, Mandated Duties for Child Abuse Reporters, Mission Hills, California

April, 2006. Medical Education Services, Behavioral Health & The Law, San Francisco, California

September 2006. Children’s Institute International, Consent for Treatment; Access to Minor’s Records, Los Angeles, California

February 2007. Hathaway/Sycamores, Consent for Treatment; Access to Minor’s Records, Los Angeles, California

June 2007. Western World Insurance Company, Designing the Defense for Child Welfare Providers, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey

Publications

Note, Up or Out and into the Supreme Court: A Forecast for Hishon v. King and Spaulding (1984) 11 Pepperdine L. Rev. 391

Notes, California Supreme Court Survey (1984) 11 Pepperdine L. Rev. 221

Comment, Easton v. Strassburger: A Red Flag for California Real Estate Brokers (1986) 20 B.H.B.J. 12

Article, “Special Report: Trends in Managed Care: Applications in Behavioral Health and the Child Welfare Arena.” California Health Law Monitor (July 7, 1997)

Article, “Special Report: Consent and Confidentiality and Minors.” California Health Law Monitor (October 2, 2000)

Article, “How HIPAA May Apply to Non-Traditional Healthcare Providers: A Study of Foster Care Agencies Under HIPAA.” California Health Law News (Fall 2003/Winter 2004)

Kollar, L., “Exposure and the Consequences of Legal Liability in Art Therapy Training and Supervision”, Supervision and Related Issues: A Handbook for Professionals (1996)

Professional Affiliations

Ms. Kollar has been awarded Martindale-Hubbel’s highest peer review rating “AV” and also selected every year by her peers since 2004 as one of Southern California’s Super Lawyers in Los Angeles Magazine. In 2000 she was awarded the David & Margaret Home Award for Reflections in Excellence for her outstanding services to children and the community agencies which care for them.

A member of:

State Bar of California
Los Angeles County Bar Association
American Bar Association
National Association of Counsel for Children
California Academy of Health Care Attorneys
Board of Professional Standards, Pepperdine University School of Law
Phi Delta Phi
Co-Founder: The Western Child Welfare Law Center