Health Law Concentration

Students select from a variety of placements that concentrate on a range of health law-related lawyering skills, such as trial practice, legal research and writing, client interviewing and counseling, class action litigation, motion practice, community education, document drafting, appellate advocacy, and public policy and legislative advocacy. Placements include:

• Legal organizations that represent individuals to uphold health care rights and/or bring impact litigation related to health care issues
  
  
• Law firms that handle plaintiffs' medical malpractice cases and represent patients and/or doctors in litigation against insurance companies and managed care providers
  
  
• Government agencies that regulate health care institutions and providers
  
  
• Hospital in-house counsel offices
  
  
• Clerkships with judges who primarily handle health law cases