Medical Law
Focusing on helping your business achieve sustainable growth objectives concerning health regulations, professional regulations, contracts and agreements, staffing, policy consulting, and more.
Local and provincial medical laws and regulations and court decisions involve multiple stakeholders and ongoing opportunities for change, innovation, and growth. Healthcare’s unique business landscape often presents unique policy, regulatory, and transactional issues and challenges that we grapple with and strategize around to ensure that health professionals provide safe, reliable care that is in compliance with relevant law and regulations, helping your health practice maintain sustainable growth.
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Healthcare Law
Shnier Mackenzie specializes in helping health professional associations and healthcare professionals navigate the complex world of healthcare law. We deliver practical, strategic, effective, and timely legal services, advice, and solutions that foster business growth customized to your unique circumstances, needs, and goals.
In this complex, rapidly evolving industry, our trusted team of healthcare law experts has the strategic experience that creates value for our clients. Let us handle all the legal research, trends, and issues that can affect your business while you concentrate on delivering quality health care.
Our health law legal team works with:
- Health Professional Associations
- Physicians and medical practices
- Dentists and dental practices
- Physiotherapists and physiotherapy practices
- Massage Therapists and massage therapy practices
- Naturopathic Doctors and naturopathy practices
- Chiropractic Doctors and naturopathy practices
- Collaborative healthcare practices
- Health-tech companies
- Nursing & PSW agencies
- Healthcare professionals and clinics
About Dr. Adrienne Shnier, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., PH.D., J.D
Dr. Shnier leads our Health & Business Law Department. With over a decade of health policy, academia, research, consulting, and legal experience, she provides our clients with unique evidence-based, informed, experience-based perspectives and fresh thinking.
Adrienne is Health Law Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in the Professional LLM in Health Law, an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Health Policy & Management, and School of Global Health in the Faculty of Health at York University.
About Josh Eisen, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., J.D.
Josh practices in Business & Corporate Law, Franchise Law, and Health Law, advising entrepreneurs and business owners at every stage of in their business’ life cycle. From incorporation, to restructuring, to the sale of businesses, Josh provides strategic and experience-informed advice customized to our clients. Josh has helped clients secure more than $400 million in financing from venture capital funds and other institutions. He has negotiated numerous purchase agreements opposite institutional purchasers and isn’t afraid to take on the big guys.
A collaborative approach to health law
Our healthcare legal team takes the time to get to know your business needs, values, and goals so that we can provide the most relevant, well-rounded, and reliable legal strategy and advice that supports your mission and continued growth. When you need legal services or advice, we'll work together on a customized strategy in compliance with your applicable law, regulations, codes, and policy. We help you minimize liability and risk to your health practice’s daily operations to mitigate and avoid litigation now and in the future. We collaborate with overseas counsel for our international clients to ensure that your solutions work inter-jurisdictionally.
Creating a clear path for sustainable business growth
We plan for your business to grow. As your business evolves, or as laws and regulations change, we revise our strategies so that your growth remains consistent and reliable. We're continuously monitoring new business and healthcare regulations for trends you can leverage to drive your business forward with confidence.
Legal counsel on your terms
Our law firm focuses on building strong relationships with our clients, whether we're serving as your External General Counsel (on retainer) or providing on-demand Independent Legal Advice (ILA). However you prefer to engage us, we provide sound, actionable strategies that ensure legal and professional regulatory compliance, mitigating circumstances to avoid conflict and litigation, and much more.
Regulatory compliance consultancy
Our health law experts focus on professional and regulatory compliance for regulated and unregulated health professionals, as well as professional governance, bioethics, intellectual property, privacy guidelines, and information technology policies.
Drafting of legal documents
We'll expeditiously and accurately draft and prepare documents such as employment/independent contractor agreements and contracts, service contracts, negotiations, opinion letters, and more.
Policy review and consulting
We perform comprehensive policy research, analysis, drafting, and writing of policy for both internal and public consumption. As applicable, we also audit your existing policy for gaps, weaknesses, errors and omissions and provide recommendations for improvement.