Contact SEAK                                              SEAK, Inc.                                                            About SEAK
 
Join SEAK's Mailing List                   Excellence In Education Since 1980                               

Webstore  |  Seminar Schedule  |  Expert Witness Directory  |  IME Directory  |  Customized Training  |  Free Resources
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

The Biggest Legal Mistakes Physicians Make and How to Avoid Them

Edited By Steve Babitsky, Esquire, James J. Mangraviti, Jr., Esquire

© 2005 SEAK, Inc. 
 

 Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Antitrust
• Responding to Antitrust Complaints
• Antitrust Laws

Chapter 2 - Asset Protection
• Titling Assets Amongst Family
• State Exemption Laws
• Offshore Trusts
• Moving Assets Offshore
• Dealing With Asset Protection Professionals
• Protecting Personal Assets
• Asset Protection

Chapter 3 - Bankruptcy
• Dealing with Bankruptcy Counsel
• Bankruptcy Process

Chapter 4 - Business Planning and Structuring
• Practice Support Agreements
• Buy-Ins
• Closing or Leaving a Practice
• Negotiating Buyouts
• Decisional Gridlock and Infighting
• Retirement Arrangements
• Buy-Ins and Buy Outs
• Structuring a Practice

Chapter 5 - Compliance
• HIPAA
• Fraud Liability
• Overpayments
• Privacy
• Certificates of Need
• Medicare Inquiry
• Third Party Payer Audits

Chapter 6 - Contracts
• Negotiating with Employer
• Negotiating with Employee
• Negotiating Contracts
• In-Office Ancillary Services
• First Employment Contract
• Non-Compete Issues

Chapter 7 - Criminal Law
• Fraud Liability
• Criminal Charges
• Charged with a Crime
• Hiring a Criminal Lawyer
• Criminal Investigations

Chapter 8 - Disability Insurance
• Filing for Disability

Chapter 9 - Divorce
• Divorce Filing
• After Divorce is Filed
• Divorces

Chapter 10 - Employment Law
• Call Duty
• Disciplining Employee
• Terminating Employee
• Interviewing Job Applicants
• Hiring an Employee
• Discrimination
• Employment Laws
• After Termination
• Sexual Harassment

Chapter 11 - ERISA/Retirement Plans
• ERISA
• ERISA Claims
• Qualified Plans

Chapter 12 - Estate Planning
• Trusts
• Family Limited Partnerships
• Trusts
• Wills
• Dealing with Estate Planners
• Setting Up Estate Plan

Chapter 13 - Hospital Relations
• Hospital-Physician Contracting
• Staff Privileges

Chapter 14 - Immigration
• Attempting Immigration
• Immigration
• Hiring Immigrants

Chapter 15 - Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property
• Patents

Chapter 16 - Litigation
• Covenants not to Compete
• Testifying at Deposition
• Commercial Litigation
• Retaining a Litigator

Chapter 17 - Malpractice
• After Malpractice Filed
• When to settle
• Abandonment
• Reporting to Insurers
• Testifying at Deposition

 

• Appointed Malpractice Counsel
• Defending a Malpractice Claim
• Testifying on Direct Examination
• Testifying on own Behalf
• Staff as Witnesses
• Doctor-Patient Relationship

Chapter 18 - Managed Care
• Contracting
• Contracts
• Negotiating Contracts
• Pay for Performance Programs

Chapter 19 - Medicaid
• Patients, Claims and Issues

Chapter 20 - Mergers and Acquisitions
• Acquiring a Practice
• Selling a Practice

Chapter 21 - Professional Discipline/Licensing
• Notice of Investigation
• Attitude during proceedings
• Testifying on own Behalf
• After Complaint Filed
• Collateral Consequences
• Mistakes Leading to Discipline
• Credentialing

Chapter 22 - Real Estate
• Lease Negotiation
• Subleases
• Buying Real Estate
• Selling Real Estate

Chapter 23 - Risk Management
• Causes of Malpractice Suits
• Bad Outcomes
• Non-Malpractice Liability
• Abandonment
• Risk Management
• Informed Consent
• Peer Review
• Suspected Child or Sex Abuse
• Transferring Risk
• Obtaining Insurance Coverage
• Medical-Legal Work

Chapter 24 - Taxation
• Federal Income Tax
• Estate Tax

 

SEAK's Expert Witness Directory