BRUCE V. HILLOWE    

A Law Practice Emphasizing Mental Healthcare Law, Healthcare Law and Mediation,

Serving the Community for 28 Years

The Chancery, 190 Willis Avenue, Suite 205, Mineola, New York 11501

Telephone: (516) 877-2016, (800) 286-0369  Fax: (516) 877-2743

Email: bvhillowe@mindspring.com

Our firm is dedicated to providing clients with personal, timely and cost-effective legal representation.  We are innovators and leaders in the areas of mental health and healthcare law and mediation. Overall our practice is about equally divided between transactional work and litigation.

The skills, knowledge and experience of attorneys are critical in the dynamic arena of healthcare law.  Bruce was also trained and formerly practiced as a psychologist-psychoanalyst and Christine was trained as a nurse.

Mental health law involves the representation of professionals, practices, agencies, facilities, institutes and educational institutions that provide mental health services.  Essential to the practice of mental health law are knowledge and experience in healthcare law, that body of law applicable to all health care and health professions, including corporate and non-profit law, employment law, malpractice law, education law, administrative law, and insurance law. 

A particular area of focus is our defense of healthcare practitioners  in professional disciplinary proceedings. These proceedings may be before licensing boards, ethics or peer review committees, regulatory agencies or insurers.  Bruce previously served as Ethics Counsel to a State professional association in a prosecutorial role in such disciplinary matters.

Mediation is the resolution of legal disputes through direct negotiation between the parties, facilitated by an impartial and specially trained mediator who is usually either an attorney or mental health professional.  Bruce is an experienced family mediator who has been mediating divorces and marital separations since 1986.  His dual training is a significant asset to clients who choose family mediation.  Bruce has also served as a mediator for the federal courts and for private business clients in disputes where the parties are interested in saving on the time and cost, including emotional cost, of litigation, or in preserving a working relationship. 

As civil attorneys, we also represent our clientele in certain of their general civil matters, such as wills, and real estate and business transactions.

We also represent consumers of mental health services and their families. This representation includes guardianship, appropriate healthcare and education for the mentally ill, and patients' rights generally. 

Bruce has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's®  highest and most coveted rating of "AV," indicating that his legal ability has been rated as "Very High to Preeminent" and his general ethics as "High." Martindale- Hubbell® is the nation's foremost attorney rating service, and bases its objective ratings on carefully conducted investigations and peer review by practicing attorneys and judges.  Bruce is also listed in "The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers®." *

Please go the the "Contact" section of our website (above left) for directions to our office, and go to "Our Attorneys" for further biographical information about Bruce and our professional staff.

* "CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc. used in accordance with the Martindate-Hubbell certfication procedure standards and policies.  Martindate-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review process that rates lawyers.  Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary.  Martindate-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.  Legal Ability Ratings are:  C - Good to High, B - High to Very High, A - Very High to Preeminent. There is one general ethical standard rating - V or very high.  An attorney will not receive a Legal Ability Rating unless he or she has been endorsed for a "V." Only when both ratings are confirmed will an attorney receive a rating."  "The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers" lists only the most distinguished law practices, those that have acheived the prestigious "AV" rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.  For further information see www.martindale.com.