MLT Lawyers Practicing
in this Area Include:

Rob Pletch, Q.C.
Randy Brunet
Eleanor Olszewski, Q.C. Bonnie Reid
Leah Schatz
Brad Vance
Erin Breker

At MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP, we provide legal advice and services to a variety of clients in the expanding and dynamic health care sector. Our clients include:

• individual health care facilities such as hospitals and long-term care facilities;
• regional health authorities;
• provincial health employer organizations;
• hospital foundations;
• provincial governments and health care-related agencies;
• individual physicians and professional health care firms.

The needs of clients within the health sector dictate utilizing a multi-disciplinary team framework, drawing upon a number of MLT's practice areas. For example, our lawyers involved in administrative law, information technology, biotechnology, intellectual property, litigation, tax planning and general commercial law, are often involved in crafting a client-specific solution in the health care practice area.

Our experience in health law ranges from tax and business advice, labour and employment law, professional malpractice defence, labour standards and human rights matters, to substantive health law issues. We deal regularly with qualification and regulatory issues, both in respect of professionals and health care products. Several of our members serve or have served on the boards of clients operating in this sector.

Recent assignments undertaken by our Health Care Practice Group include providing advice:

• to a multi-hospital non-profit foundation on corporate governance;
• on the structuring and IT outsourcing for a major government health information network initiative;
• on innovative joint venture and strategic alliance, cross-border supplier agreements; and,
• on the establishment of a private diagnostic imaging clinic.