Harvard Law and Health Care Society
Information for 1Ls:
Find out more about the Law and Health Care Society!
About Us:
As health care has become a greater social concern and a bigger business concern, it has created a need for attorneys with specialties and interests in nearly every area of the law. Within the government, health care lawyers set policy, create and regulate programs to provide low-income medical coverage, examine and approve hospital mergers and profit-status changes, and monitor and prosecute billing and fraud by physicians and hospitals. In the nonprofit arena, health care lawyers help secure medical coverage for low-income individuals and families, advocate on behalf of the disabled and others who are discriminated against because of their health status, and assist with end-of-life planning for the terminally ill. Private firm lawyers prosecute and defend malpractice claims, defend fraud cases, handle mergers and acquisitions for hospitals and HMOs, serve as general counsel for health care providers, conduct intellectual property work for creators of medical devices and medications, and provide consulting services to physicians' practice groups.
Our members have interests as diverse as the above list, and our events are intended to introduce members to all of the fields of health care law, as well as to leaders in those fields. We have hosted prominent speakers on a range of health law topics, career panels with local professionals, summer job panels with 2Ls and 3Ls, conferences that bring together lawyers from across the country, and brown-bag lunches with health care professors from the Law School and other Harvard schools. Next year promises to be just as exciting.
Law & Health Care Society members also have the opportunity to contribute to the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, which is the professional journal of the American Society of Law and Medicine. This is a unique chance to work on a professional, rather than student, journal and to have a case note published as a 1L.
We encourage interested students to visit us at the Student Organizations Fair and come to our opening events.
Presidents
Anne Pierson
Ariane Tschumi
Vice President
Maliha Hashmi
Treasurer
Igor Gorlach
General Board Members
Jenni Rosenberg
Sarah Sorscher