Attorney Specializing in Healthcare Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — May 29, 2009 — Marcia Augsburger, JD, the Healthcare Practice Leader in the law firm of McDonough Holland & Allen, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Founded in 1953, the multi-service law firm of McDonough Holland & Allen has approximately 100 attorneys based in Sacramento and Oakland, and a client base that ranges from individuals, to private and public companies, to governments. Marcia’s practice includes counseling, transactional work, and litigation in all aspects of healthcare law affecting providers, health plans, insurance companies, agents, brokers, other fiduciaries, and employers. She also instituted and heads the firm’s Wellness Program, which, in addition to keeping the firm's employees healthier, enjoys a return on investment well in excess of 4:1.

Marcia has served as trial counsel and consultant for healthcare entities and systems, including hospitals, medical groups, IPAs, and insurance companies in contract and other business disputes. She has been counsel in managed care disputes that resulted in recoveries for clients in the healthcare industry totaling more than $45 million since 2000, as well as serving as counsel in class actions and other lawsuits and arbitrations involving complex legal issues, including hospital pricing and billing practices, lien rights, ERISA, unfair business practices, and issues arising under the federal and state constitutions and specifically the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Marcia earned her J.D. from the University of California at Davis.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .