Summer 2019: Medicine and Law

Features

Medical Malpractice

Hindsight Bias at Trial

By Thomas A. Wiseman III

In a health care liability trial, it is difficult for any juror to overcome and set aside outcome knowledge.

Healthcare & Pharmaceutics

Arkansas Expands Scope of Practice for Optometrists

By Sherie L. Edwards

As Arkansas becomes the fourth state to allow optometrists to perform surgery, the scope of practice is expanding in a way that presents new issues of liability for attorneys, and new areas of risk for insurers, to consider.

Healthcare & Pharmaceutics

Physician-Assisted Death: A Slippery Slope or the Ultimate Patient Autonomy?

By Louise Derevlany

Debate continues to weigh whether physician-assisted death is taking advantage of the terminally ill or is granting respectful autonomy for a dying patient to decide to die rather than wait for nature to determine when their life ends.

Tech Tip

Cybersecurity

Lawyers and Cyber Insurance: Are You Lagging Behind?

By Jason Betke and Dan Cotter

Diverse practice areas, combined with cyber insurance products that vary by type and insurer, require law firms to understand the information landscape within their firm before procuring a cyber policy.

Did You Know?

Practice Management

Focus on Law Practice Management: Supervising Staff and Technology

By David V. Wilson II

A culture of learning is the best way for law firms, law departments, and their employees to avoid running afoul of applicable rules governing the relationship between lawyers and nonlawyer assistants.

New Attorneys

“When I Was a New Lawyer”: Josh Lee

TortSource Interview with TIPS Leader Josh Lee

TortSource interviews TIPS leader Josh Lee, a member of TIPS’s Leadership Academy Task Force and incoming chair of the TIPS CLE Board.

Book Review

Practice Management

Remaking Law Firms: Why and How, by George R. Beaton and Imme Kaschner

Reviewed by Kati Sanford Goodner

From the way legal services are provided to the legal needs clients are facing, the practice of law today looks vastly different from the traditional law firm business model.

What's New at TIPS

Tort

Meeting Round-Up: TIPS Section Conference in New York

By Briana M. Montminy

Over 24 hours of CLE and a gala celebration in the iconic Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center highlighted TIPS’s first-rate educational and networking opportunities this spring in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

Tort

“My Hawaii”: TIPS Fall Leadership Meeting, October 16–19, 2019

By Catherine Tanaka Surbeck

TIPS will kick off the 2020 bar year at the spectacular Grand Wailea Hotel on Maui, offering beach activities, water sports, a celebratory luau, and opportunities to explore the island paradise.

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Summer 2019: Medicine and Law

Friendly Fire: New Bill Aims to Fix 69-Year Bar to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits by Military

Features

Hindsight Bias at Trial

Arkansas Expands Scope of Practice for Optometrists

Physician-Assisted Death: A Slippery Slope or the Ultimate Patient Autonomy?

Tech Tip

Lawyers and Cyber Insurance: Are You Lagging Behind?

Did You Know?

Focus on Law Practice Management: Supervising Staff and Technology

“When I Was a New Lawyer”: Josh Lee

Book Review

Remaking Law Firms: Why and How, by George R. Beaton and Imme Kaschner

What's New at TIPS

Meeting Round-Up: TIPS Section Conference in New York

“My Hawaii”: TIPS Fall Leadership Meeting, October 16–19, 2019

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Summer 2019: Medicine and Law

Friendly Fire: New Bill Aims to Fix 69-Year Bar to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits by Military

Features

Hindsight Bias at Trial

Arkansas Expands Scope of Practice for Optometrists

Physician-Assisted Death: A Slippery Slope or the Ultimate Patient Autonomy?

Tech Tip

Lawyers and Cyber Insurance: Are You Lagging Behind?

Did You Know?

Focus on Law Practice Management: Supervising Staff and Technology

“When I Was a New Lawyer”: Josh Lee

Book Review

Remaking Law Firms: Why and How, by George R. Beaton and Imme Kaschner

What's New at TIPS

Meeting Round-Up: TIPS Section Conference in New York

“My Hawaii”: TIPS Fall Leadership Meeting, October 16–19, 2019

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