Linda Randlett Kollar

Linda Randlett 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.

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 received her Bachelor’s Degree in American Studies from Scripps College, Claremont, California.  She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law, 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.