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This advanced, fast-paced interactive course provides crucial, concrete and practical information and recommendations which its attendees can immediately use to prevent legal errors and legal liability. It is essential training for all physicians which is unavailable elsewhere. Legal Liability Prevention for Physicians: 2006 consists of six advanced, interactive workshops covering the critical areas of the law threatening the livelihoods of physicians on a daily basis. It is taught by experienced attorneys who specialize in the areas they are presenting on and who will make the complex legal issues involved understandable. Tuition includes a seminar manual not available elsewhere, breakfast and lunch with faculty each day and a dynamic learning experience.

Learning Objectives

• Better protect yourself

• More effectively avoid lawsuits and unnecessary and costly legal errors

• Be proactive and reduce risk

• List the questions to ask when you are looking to hire a health care attorney

• Become more aware of potential liability that may be lurking

• Increase your knowledge, confidence and ability in dealing with lawyers and the legal system

• Utilize the knowledge obtained to achieve greater success

• Get all your questions answered

Faculty:

Todd A. Rodriguez, Esq. is a regulatory and health care attorney with Fox Rothschild, in Exton, PA. He has extensive experience in physician legal representation in all aspects of medical practice including medical practice mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation and drafting, and consulting on operational and business planning issues affecting physician medical practices and other providers. He regularly advises clients on complex fraud and abuse compliance and regulatory issues, contract negotiations and drafting, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy issues, reimbursement, and corporate and employment issues. An accomplished speaker and prolific writer, Mr. Rodriguez has presented numerous seminars and authored articles on a variety of health care matters. A select list of Mr. Rodriguez ‘s writings and presentations include: co-editor, Jost and Davies, The Law of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse (West 2003-04 ed.); co-presenter, "HIPAA Privacy Compliance," American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Billing and Coding Institute; presenter, "Medicare Billing Hotspots," American Academy of Professional Coders, Philadelphia Chapter Annual Meeting; presenter, "Medicare Regulations Affecting Physician Employment," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Annual Health Law Institute; author, "Peer Review Protection Revisited: The Challenge of Transparency with Improvement," Health Law Handbook (West 2003); author, "Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Knowing when to Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth," Health Law Handbook (West 2002); author, "Physician Employment Agreements: New Realities for Old Relationships," Health Law Handbook (West 2001). He can be reached by phone at (610) 458-4978 or by email at trodriguez@foxrothschild.com.

Andrew L. Hyams, Esq. is of counsel to Kerstein, Coren, Lichetenstein & Finkel in Wellesley, MA. He specializes in representing health professionals in licensing and disciplinary matters before their respective regulatory boards. He also conducts a general business practice. Mr. Hyams is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York. Mr. Hyams was formerly the General Counsel at the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where he was the principal drafter of the Patient Care Assessment regulations. He was also a Deputy General Counsel at the Boston Public Health Commission. Mr. Hyams was an Adjunct Lecturer in Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1992-2005. Mr. Hyams has presented at several Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and Massachusetts Bar Association health law programs, and he has lectured for the Federal Judicial Center, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Federation of State Medical Boards and the Administrators in Medicine Society. Mr. Hyams has authored peer-reviewed articles on physician and hospital regulation for Annals of Internal Medicine; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; and American Journal of Law and Medicine. He also wrote the Licensure and Discipline chapters for two editions of the American College of Legal Medicine’s publication, Legal Medicine: Legal Dynamics of Medical Encounters. Mr. Hyams graduated from Amherst College (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School. He earned an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health, where he received the annual Samdperil Prize for best research paper in health law. Mr. Hyams resides in Newton with his wife and two sons. He can be reached at 781-997-1633 and by e-mail at ahyams@kclf-law.com.

Eugene K. Hollander, Esq. is a principal of The Law Offices of Eugene K. Hollander in Chicago, IL. Mr. Hollander’s practice is concentrated in the representation of management and individuals in all phases of employment and commercial litigation, including contract interpretation, matters before the state, federal and appellate courts, including breaches of employment contracts, employee handbook issues, claims of sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, age discrimination claims, lawsuits brought under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Mr. Hollander also is engaged in counseling his clients in pre-discharge matters, as well as those cases pending before the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the EEOC. Mr. Hollander received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois in 1983, and his J.D. degree from IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law in 1986. Mr. Hollander frequently writes, lectures, and provides advice on all issues pertaining to employment law. Mr. Hollander is the author of Employment Evidence, © 2003, James Publishing Company (reviewed by the Honorable John M. Facciola in Federal Courts Law Review, 2003 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 3), and is a contributing author to Illinois Motions in Limine, by Lane and Lee, © 2004, Litigation One Publishing. He has lectured on "Writing the Employee Handbook in Illinois," (April, 2001). He can be reached at (310) 425-9100 or by email at ehollander@ekhlaw.com.

Michael F. Schaff, Esq. is a shareholder and head of the Corporate and Health Care Departments of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer PA, which maintains offices in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Schaff has lectured extensively on health care matters across the country. He is the immediate past chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Physician Organization Practice Group, and a former chair on the New Jersey State Bar Association Health and Hospital Law Section. Schaff, who has published extensively on various health care topics, including physician representation, has a BA, joint JD/MBA (specialization in finance); and an LLM (in taxation). He is listed in Best Lawyers of America and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and Maryland. Schaff can be contacted by telephone at (732) 855-6047 or by email at mschaff@wilentz.com.

Benjamin Goldstein, Esq. is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney and is a shareholder in Maressa, Goldstein, Patterson & Drinkwater, P.C. in Berlin, New Jersey where he is engaged in the practice of general law with an emphasis on trial practice. He is also a Solicitor for Kennedy Health Systems and Subsidiaries, whose corporate headquarters are in Voorhees, New Jersey, and is on the adjunct faculty at Camden County College. Mr. Goldstein is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Illinois, and before the Federal Court of Appeals, 3rd and 7th Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American, New Jersey, State, and Camden County Bar Associations, served on the NJSBA Medical Malpractice Subcommittee and the Health & Hospital Law Section, and is a member of the American and New Jersey Trial Lawyers Associations. Mr. Goldstein has participated on an Ad Hoc basis with the New Jersey Supreme Court Death Penalty Proportionality Review Committee and was named on several occasions by the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Performance to evaluate the performance of judges pursuant to N.J.C.R. 1:35A-3a, based on personal court appearances before various judges. He was also an evaluator of attorneys in Camden County for Martindale-Hubbell’s Law Directory, and assessed trial judges of the New Jersey Superior Court for the New Jersey Law Journal. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law, has been named a New Jersey Superlawyer by his peers and has lectured extensively for professional, educational and community organizations, and has been published in professional publications. Mr. Goldstein received his B.S. in Education for Temple University and his J.D. for John Marshall Law School. He clerked for Chief Judge Boyle, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. He can be reached at (609) 767-1471 or by email at bgoldstein@maressagoldstein.com.

Robert D. Gillen, Esq. is an asset protection and estate planning lawyer in Naperville, Illinois. Attorney Gillen received his Juris Doctor from IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law in 1979 with honors and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration University of Illinois 1976, minor in pre-law and concentration in business, tax and finance. Attorney Gillen is a prolific author and frequent speaker on asset protection and estate planning. He has lectured to many physicians and medical associations including: College of Neurological Surgeons, American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, and the American College of Cardiology. He is the author of Protecting Your Assets for the American Medical Society. He can be contacted by phone at (630) 955-9400 or by email at bob@gillenlaw.com.

Thursday, August 17, 2006