About Healthcare Neutral

Healthcare Neutral, LLC provides alternative dispute resolution (or “ADR”) services exclusively for the healthcare industry.  Richard J. Webb established this firm in 2007 to address a growing, unmet need in the healthcare field for efficient and effective alternatives to the traditional litigation process.  The decision to form Healthcare Neutral was based on the belief that the effective use of ADR in healthcare disputes requires a combined expertise in both the process of dispute resolution and the subject matter giving rise to the conflict.

Healthcare Neutral’s office is located in the rural hills of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, just outside the town of Califon.  For the convenience of the parties and their counsel, Mr. Webb travels to a site determined by them to conduct ADR sessions requiring a face to face meeting. He is available to provide services as a neutral in ADR proceedings anywhere in the United States.

 

 

 

About Richard J. Webb

In addition to providing alternative dispute resolution services, Richard J .Webb practices law as Richard J. Webb, LLC. He has been engaged in the private practice of law in New Jersey since 1978, focusing on the healthcare industry for the last 27 years. Before starting his own firm he was a senior partner in the Healthcare Practice Group of McCarter & English, L.L.P., a regional law firm of over 400 attorneys.  Mr. Webb's legal practice is currently limited to serving as outside general counsel to several hospital-health systems.  In that role, he handles the full range of operational, transactional and strategic legal issues presented by such organizations.

Mr. Webb is a graduate of Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 1975) and the Duke University School of Law (J.D. 1978).  His additional alternative dispute resolution training currently amounts to 177 hours of classroom time, including 60 hours of advanced mediation courses at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.  He has received a peer review rating of AV from Martindale-Hubbell, and has been recognized as a New Jersey SuperLawyer in the field of healthcare law.


Mr. Webb’s professional affiliations include:

•    Dispute Resolver – American Health Lawyers Association Dispute Resolution Service
•    Superior Court of New Jersey’s Roster of Certified Civil Mediators
•    Marie Garibaldi Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution
•    Board of Directors – Dispute Resolution Section: New Jersey State Bar Association
•    Board of Directors – Health and Hospital Law Section: New Jersey State Bar Association


          Mr. Webb’s complete curriculum vitae and references are available upon request; please contact Healthcare Neutral, LLC.