A co-founder of Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne, Gary is responsible for the firm’s business practice. He is also instrumental in developing the firm's well-recognized expertise in the representation of physicians and other health care providers.

     Assisting clients in the selection of a corporation, partnership or limited liability company for the start up of their business to achieve the desired business objectives comprises a significant portion of Gary's practice. He works closely with clients in all phases of their business, providing counseling with respect to financing needs, compensation and ownership succession arrangements, as well as structuring and negotiating merger and acquisition transactions and resolving management and governance disputes among owners.

     The firm's health care practice encompasses the full range of business and regulatory matters facing clients in the health care industry. Those matters include managed care contracting and the formation, affiliation and consolidation of medical groups, independent practice associations and management services organizations. Gary works with clients to develop joint venture arrangements and assists medical groups in unwinding unsuccessful affiliations.

     As president of the firm, “I expect our attorneys to care about our clients. If we are dealing with the sole source of their livelihoods, then they have the right to expect us to handle their legal work as if they were our most important client. I feel the same way.”

     Gary graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1966 (B.S., Business Administration). At Hastings College of The Law, he served as Executive Editor of the Hastings Law Journal, was a member of the Thurston Society (an academic honor society), and was President of the local chapter of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. Gary lectures regionally and nationally on owner succession arrangements, mergers and acquisitions and governance issues.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Business & Corporate Transactions
• Health Care

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• California State and San Diego County Bar Associations
• California Society of Health Care Attorneys
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Regional and national lecturer on various health care and business topics