As a professional, care is at the heart of all you do. But protecting and growing your own practice or clinic is essential too.
You Legal’s medical and health lawyers help you understand your vulnerabilities and give you the confidence to safeguard your clinic or practice.
Ensuring you legally protect your practice, patients and profits.
As a medical or health professional, it’s easy to get caught up in the needs and well-being of your clients and patients. That’s just who you are and what you do. It’s actually why you do it.
We get it. Because we feel the same about you.
You Legal’s network of trusted and experienced medical practice lawyers are your personal health law lawyers. Offering personal one on one consultations or our easy fast track solutions, we’ll pinpoint your vulnerabilities, then support you and your business as we work to limit any exposures.
Fast Track your legal agreements and documents
We know as clinic and business owners, having certainty over expenses is important. For this reason we’ve developed a comprehensive range of fast track solutions with fixed pricing - so there’s no hidden surprises. Our fast track solutions are all personalised to your unique needs and are prepared by real-life experienced lawyers.
When you're looking for tailored advice, a personal touch is needed. Our expert medical and health professional lawyers will help you identify the risks and vulnerabilities in your business, and work with you to not only protect your business but make an impact in your industry too.
Governance can be tricky for any business, let alone a medical practice. Find everything you need to know in our recently updated-
Growing a Medical Practice: From Frustration to a High Performance Business – 2nd edition.
Health and medical professionals are busy pretty much all of the time. So you’ll be delighted to know our webinars are delivered in perfect, bite sized morsels of an hour or less. No faff. No filler. Just condensed, valuable and relevant information on the topics that matter to you.
All of our webinars are free and available live or on demand.
You Legal for Doctors is a private space for doctors to connect, ask questions and compare notes. We also offer legal support and guidance on topical issues, ensuring everyone in the group has a medical background and currently works within the sector.
When you join, you’ll get:
immediate access to hundreds of doctors across Australia
legal experts with experience in the medical field
content about legal issues impacting the medical industry (often before it’s released to our wider network)
If you do nothing else while you’re here, don’t wait to have your business put at risk. Get things sorted right from the start. Your personalised You Legal governance health check offers insight into your particular business vulnerabilities, recommendations on how to protect the business and the order in which these should happen.
"Sarah has always been very helpful and very patient in explaining reasons for advice and why documents are worded the way they are. I go away with a feeling that I understand the legal jargon, which has certainly not always been the case with other lawyers."
Practice Manager, Hastings VIC
“Very easy to communicate with, You Legal were able to advise on matters that I didn't necessarily know about, and documents provided were easy to understand.”
Clinical Psychologist, Paddington NSW
“Service was good and efficient. Got what was needed and Daniela went out of her way to help.”
Executive Director & Principal Doctor, Ringwood
Closing a medical practice in Australia is a significant decision for a medical practice owner. It creates a myriad of legal, financial, and operational considerations and can be tricky to navigate. Whether you're retiring from practice, relocating, experiencing illness or transitioning to another phase of your career, it's critical to approach the process with diligence and care.
Often medical practices hire doctors as independent practitioners because it is thought to be more flexible, for both the practice and the doctor. However, with ongoing changes to the law around independent contractors and tenant doctors, an independent practitioner can in many cases be considered an employee.
Specific, tailored and carefully drafted legal agreements are essential to ensure proper protection of your medical or allied health practice. Increasingly, websites from non-lawyers (e.g. business coaches or professional associations) are purporting to offer “cheap, fast and convenient” templated legal documents.
Around one in four employees work as ‘casuals’ in Australia, therefore it’s no surprise that many medical or allied health practices engage their support staff (or even their professional staff) as casuals. The recent amendments to the Fair Work Act (‘FW Act’), which came into effect on 26 August 2024, brought some notable changes relating to casual employment, including (but not limited to):
