Barry S Landsberg

Practice Areas

Trial and appellate lawyer Barry Landsberg has won several first-impression cases for hospitals and nursing homes before the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal and is regularly recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent health care litigators. He regularly handles hospital pricing, hospital/physician medical staff and religious freedom cases for faith-based hospitals that have produced favorable decisions for hospitals in the trial courts, the Court of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. He has argued seven California Supreme Court cases.

Barry represents some of the nation’s largest hospital systems and long-term care providers in a wide variety of cases and appeals arising under the Unfair Competition Law, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the anti-kickback statutes, the False Claims Act, and the state and federal Constitutions, as well as commercial contract and business torts matters. Barry also has helped to materially change California case law with several recent decisions in favor of hospital and nursing home clients.

He is a frequent author and lecturer on California hospital law, the Unfair Competition Law and other health law litigation developments.

Professional Memberships

Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Central District of California and the Northern District of California; Admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.

Member, Board of Directors, California Society for Healthcare Attorneys

Member, American Law Institute

Member, American Health Lawyers Association

Member, California Society for Health Care Attorneys

Publications

Featured, “MVP: Manatt’s Barry S. Landsberg,” Law360, September 24, 2021.

Co-Author, “Anti-SLAPP Protections for Hospital Peer Reviews: Questions Linger,” Daily Journal, August 13, 2021.

Co-Author, “When does a hearing officer in a physician peer review hearing have a disqualifying financial bias?” Daily Journal, December 4, 2019.