Kitty Juniper, of Hooper Lundy & Bookman, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — November 23, 2010 — Kathleen “Kitty” Juniper, a Partner in the San Diego office of Hooper Lundy & Bookman, PC, 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.

Law firm Hooper Lundy & Bookman (HLB) is dedicated to the healthcare industry, and Kitty advises health-related companies and organizations based on her over 25 years of diverse, real-world experience. She focuses on helping clients find innovative and practical legal solutions consistent with their strategic business goals.

HLB has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, DC. Its attorneys represent providers and health-related companies in all aspects of their business and regulatory transactions, as well as in litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution services. The firm has represented clients in many of the landmark appellate cases that have shaped health care law over the past two decades.

In her national health law practice, Kitty assists clients with business transactions, retail health operations, new products and services, government approvals and filings, and strategic partnerships. Typical issues include corporate practice of medicine issues, managed care, advertising and marketing practices, compliance programs and federal and state rulemakings.

Most recently, Kitty was a Partner in the law firm of Juniper Sanderson Wiggins LLP. She brings a diverse background in law, business and government to her clients’ matters. In private practice, she has helped corporations make strategic business decisions and manage day-to-day legal issues. As in-house counsel, she led a corporate team that established a subsidiary specialty health plan in record time, then became the plan’s President. In Washington, DC, she practiced consumer protection law at the Federal Trade Commission and investigated various industries’ practices. She has served on the California Advisory Board on Health Care Service Plans and various trade association and government/industry committees. She also directed the government relations program for UCSD Medical Center and School of Medicine. Her most interesting job was regulating the Ohio coal mining industry and facing rifle-bearing greeters during an environmental inspection.

Kitty is a Member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Lawyers Club of San Diego (current Advisory Board member, past President), California Women Lawyers (past Governor), San Diego County Bar Association (past Co-Chair client relations committee; co-chair Diversity Taskforce), the California Society of Health Care Attorneys, and the American Bar Association. She has served on various community committees and boards, including the San Diego Volunteer Lawyers Program Board.

Kitty earned her BA from the University of Cincinnati, magna cum laude, and her JD from Washington College of Law at American University (Dean’s Fellow).

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 .