Healthcare lawyers for practices across Australia
Start. Grow. Sell.
Confidence at every stage of practice. We help healthcare practices navigate complexity and build stronger businesses.
Have a question about your practice? We're here to help.
Confidence at every stage of practice. We help healthcare practices navigate complexity and build stronger businesses.
Have a question about your practice? We're here to help.
START: Set up a healthcare practice
Starting a healthcare or allied health practice? We help you put the right legal foundations in place, including business structure, ownership arrangements, agreements and compliance.
GROW: Manage and grow your practice
As your practice grows, we provide legal support with practitioner and employment agreements, governance, privacy, payroll tax and risk management.
SELL: Buy or sell a healthcare practice
Planning to buy or sell a healthcare practice? We guide practice owners through due diligence, sale agreements, succession and exit planning.
Our Fast Track Solutions provide fixed-price legal agreements and documents for Australian healthcare practices, including allied health clinics. Our solutions include practitioner services agreements for independent practitioners, prepared by specialist healthcare lawyers to support the way your practice operates.
Running a healthcare or allied health practice involves complex legal, regulatory and commercial decisions.
You Legal provides specialist legal services for healthcare businesses across Australia. We help practice owners address healthcare compliance and legal risk, strengthen their business foundations, and make informed decisions.
Whether you are starting a practice, managing growth or preparing to sell, we support your business at every stage.
Have a question about your practice? We’re here to help.
Our book, Growing a Medical Practice, provides practical guidance for healthcare professionals who want to build a strong, sustainable practice.
Learn from clear, practical insights drawn from our work with healthcare businesses.
Trusted by healthcare professionals across Australia.
Webinars for healthcare professionals
Practical legal insights for healthcare professionals, including allied health practitioners, navigating the business of running a practice.
Our sessions cover starting, growing and selling a practice, and the legal issues that arise at each stage.
Attend live or watch our webinars on demand.
A private space where doctors can connect, ask questions and share insights about running a practice.
We share practical guidance on the legal and business issues doctors face when starting, growing and selling a practice.
Running a healthcare practice involves legal, regulatory and commercial responsibilities. This short legal risk assessment helps Australian healthcare practice owners understand where their business may be exposed.
The scorecard provides a snapshot of your legal risk position and highlights areas that may need attention. It is designed for Australian healthcare practices, including allied health clinics.
"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
Running a healthcare practice means balancing patient care with budgets, staffing and limited time. When a legal issue pops up, the temptation is to deal with it quickly, cheaply and move on. That might mean downloading a contract template, reusing an agreement from a few years ago or asking Google or an artificial intelligence ("AI") tool for a quick answer.
What changes when your responsibilities expand from caring for patients to directing the business.
The transition from practitioner to director brings a wider set of responsibilities. Alongside your clinical work, you become responsible for decisions that shape the practice’s people, finances, compliance and future.
A significant change to the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (the Award) takes effect from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 October 2026.
For healthcare and allied health practice owners, this is not simply another increase to minimum Award rates. A new classification structure will also apply to health professional employees covered by the Award.
From 1 October 2026, bank card surcharging will change significantly for Australian businesses, including medical and allied health practices. Following its review of merchant card payment costs, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has removed restrictions that previously prevented designated card networks from imposing “no-surcharge” rules. EFTPOS, Mastercard and Visa have announced that card surcharges will no longer be permitted on their networks from