- Mark You Calendars
- Get Involved in Programming
- Community Outreach Call For Volunteers
- Are You A Young Health Law Practitioner?
- Update Your Contact Information
- Email Notices
Effective Writing for Lawyers
Thursday, March 27, 2008
9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m
OR
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m
D.C. Bar Conference Center
1250 H Street NW
B-1 Level
(Metro Center)
Description
Credit: 5.5 Credit Hours (Except 5.0 Credit Hours for Florida)
This essential course for new or seasoned attorneys teaches participants how to recognize and correct common writing problems. Through a series of interactive exercises, you will learn how to fix those problems and make dull and bureaucratic language clear and concise. Participants also will learn how to think about the writing process, how to untangle sentences, and how to edit. Plus you will learn 10 tips for turning ordinary writing into crisp, sharp, and convincing prose. This class will help you to communicate more effectively with your clients and others in the legal process. Class limited to 20 registrants.
Note: This class includes the information taught in “Introduction to Effective Writing for Lawyers” and students should not take both classes. Instead, students may want to select “Advanced Effective Writing for Lawyers” as an excellent follow up course to this class.
Contact:
CLE Program 202-626-3488
Speakers:
Jody Beck, Writewell
Kate Sylvester, Writewell
CLE Credit:
Yes
Cost:
Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section $265.00
Antitrust and Consumer Law Section $265.00
Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section $265.00
Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice $265.00
Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section $265.00
District of Columbia Affairs Section $265.00
Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section $265.00
Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section $265.00
Family Law Section $265.00
Government Contracts and Litigation Section $265.00
Tort Law Section $265.00
International Law Section $265.00
Labor and Employment Law Section $265.00
Intellectual Property Law Section $265.00
Real Estate, Housing and Land Use Section $265.00
Taxation Section $265.00
Law Practice Management $265.00
Litigation Section $265.00
Computer and Telecommunications Law Section $265.00
Health Law Section $265.00
Arts, Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Section $265.00
D.C. Bar Members $275.00
Others $305.00
Retiree Health Care Vehicles
Monday, March 31, 2008
12:30– 2:00 p.m
D.C. Bar Conference Center
1250 H Street, NW
B-1 Level
(Metro Center)
Description
This program, organized by the Health Law Section and Taxation Section, will include a panel which will discuss the present and future interactions of Medicare and private sector supplemental plans and focus on two vehicles used to provide retiree health care: Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs) and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).
Contact:
Sections Office, 202-626-3463
Speakers:
Douglas Greenfield, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Kathryn Bakich, The Segal Company
Tearyn Parroff, Bredhoff & Kaiser P.L.L.C (Moderator)
Adam Shaw, Bredhoff & Kaiser P.L.L.C
CLE Credit:
No
Cost:
Government & Non-Profit Employee $10.00
Section Member $15.00
Non-Section Member $25.00
Introduction to Key Antitrust and Tax issues in Health Law Thursday, May 29, 2008
6:00- 9:15 p.m.
D.C. Bar Conference Center
1250 H Street, NW
B-1 Level
(Metro Center)
Description
Credit: 3.0 Credit Hours
This course will provide an overview of key antitrust and tax issues for institutional health care providers. The antitrust discussion will focus on joint contracting by providers with payors, hospital response to physician ownership of surgery centers and specialty hospitals, joint buying groups, and Federal Trade Commission hospital merger enforcement. The tax discussion will focus on qualifying for and maintaining nonprofit and tax-exempt status, unrelated business activities, intermediate sanctions, charity care, joint ventures, governance issues, the new Form 990 and current IRS and congressional activity.
Contact:
Sections Office
202-626-3488
Speakers:
Robert Jones, Jones Day
Thomas Hyatt, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver
Cost:
Antitrust and Consumer Law Section $80.00
Health Law Section $80.00
Taxation Section $80.00
D.C. Bar Members $90.00
Others $115.00
Get Involved In Programming!
The Health Law Section is seeking volunteers to help with the Programs and Education Committee. The Programs and Education Committee is responsible for organizing educational programs sponsored by the Health Law Section. Examples of recent programs organized by the Committee include Patient Quality of Care, Anatomy of a Health Care Fraud Investigation, and Update on Health Care Antitrust Issues. Members are asked to participate in once-monthly calls and plan at least one program per year in teams of two. Membership on this Committee offers an excellent opportunity to learn about new areas of health law and to network with government health care officials and leading private practitioners.
Those interested in serving on the Programs and Education Committee should contact Lesley Reynolds at (202) 662-0247.
Community Outreach – Call For Volunteers
The D.C. Bar Health Law Section is looking for interested volunteers to join the Community Outreach Committee. The Committee will guide the existing community outreach projects of the Health Law Section as well as develop new projects and opportunities for the Section. The Committee holds monthly conference calls and other ad hoc meetings as appropriate. Please contact Paul Kim at 410/347-7344 or, Patrick Hope at 202/261-4541 or, Robyn Diaz at 202/444-3213 if you are interested in playing an instrumental role in the community outreach activities of the Health Law Section.
An immediate opportunity exists to volunteer with the healthcare decision-making project.Through this project, Health Law section members lead informational workshops about advance healthcare directives for senior citizens at senior centers, churches, synagogues, and elsewhere. Speakers provide copies of the advance directive forms approved for use in the D.C. area, instructions on how to complete the form, and, through use of an interactive video, suggestions about how to raise medical decision-making issues with family members. A number of workshops are scheduled for the coming months, and interest on the part of senior centers in hosting these workshops is high. The project needs attorneys who are knowledgeable about advance directives to volunteer to be presenters, and/or to answer attendees’ individual questions at the workshops. Please contact one of the community outreach coordinators if you are interested in volunteering.
Are You A Young Health Law Practitioner?
If so, join the Young Health Law Practitioners Committee of the Health Law Section for networking events, programs geared toward newer health care attorneys and a chance to meet and socialize with your colleagues. For more information about the activities of this enthusiastic group of your lawyers, please contact Kendra Martello or Paul Kim.
Update Your Contact Information
Have you recently moved or switched jobs? Please update your
contact information with the D.C. Bar.Changes must be sent to the D.C.
Bar Member Service Center, 1250 H Street NW, Sixth Floor, Washington,
DC 20005-5937, or submitted online
or via e-mail memberservices@dcbar.org.
E–mail Notices
Don’t miss important Section e-mail announcements and newsletters! Please add or update your e-mail address.
For information about Health Law Section programs and activities, please visit the Health Law Section web page.
Comments or questions about this newsletter may be addressed to Robyn Diaz.
