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BUSINESSES AND HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTITIES




Legal Opinion Review of Physician/Provider Employment Agreements

 HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR PHYSICIAN/PROVIDER EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT REVIEW

 From the beginning, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT YOU ARE SELECTING ME, Joel Kornberg, MD, JD, as your attorney, AS OPPOSED TO  SOME INITIALLY UNKNOWN ATTORNEY on a website, where you register, order and PAY THE FEE for a contract review BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO YOUR ATTORNEY IS. If you decide upon me, then you PAY THE FEE AFTERWARDS, AFTER communication. I will perform the legal opinion review myself and not a legal assistant or junior attorney. 

 WE LIST the proposed ATTORNEY’s NAME (Joel Kornberg, MD, JD) and our OFFICE ADDRESS of your proposed attorney on our website; SOME offering contract reviews on the internet LIST NEITHER).

 We utilize a secure Client Portal for communication by messaging (not emails and text messages), document uploads and downloads (not emails), and payment. You would have 24/7 access to this secure Client Portal.

 We make suggested changes that some online services refer to as “amendments” and are included in the Fee. Some online review services charge extra for this. We also may paste additional information into our legal opinion review, such as relevant portions of the statutes, so that you have that knowledge readily available when you discuss it with the Employer. If we do this, it’s also included.

 Not all contract reviews are the same in terms of depth, quality and time spent on the review, even if they are stated to be line-by-line reviews. I do spend a great deal of time in order to do what I consider to be a thorough line-by-line legal opinion review.

We do try to prepare you to interact and negotiate with the employer We very often receive voluntary complimentary feedback from our Physician and other Health Care Provider Clients that they appreciate how very thorough our legal opinion review is and they appreciate that our review is generally done right on the contract itself and integrated and flows in a different color font to make it easier for them to follow line by line and discuss and negotiate with the Employer. They have said that it has helped them understand their Contract provisions and how our legal opinion review has better prepared them to be able to communicate with the Employer about their Contract, due to that understanding. It is rare for us to be requested to negotiate (negotiation not included in the Fee).

The Fee also includes, after the legal review is completed and sent to you in the Client Portal, and you have had time to go over it, optional communications by either Client Portal messaging or you and I, one to one telephone call up to one-hour total time (we time it but do not bill the time), if you want. Some online contract review services charge extra for this, even for less than one (1) hour.

 MORE ABOUT OUR PHYSICIAN/PROVIDER EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT REVIEW

I can represent you under my Florida attorney license if you either reside in Florida or the position you are seeking is in Florida. 

We do provide this legal service. We do messaging, like texting, through a secure 24/7 Client Portal, which becomes active once a person becomes a Client (more below).

But first, we find it more efficient, and without telephone tag, to answer some potential questions you may have, and provide some background information about our thorough legal opinion review and explain more about what we do, as well as the Fee Structures. 

I know this is lengthy, but I am trying to answer most of your potential questions.  

Please read completely and carefully.

(You can find more about us generally at our website at 
www.physicianandattorney.com).

I will perform the legal opinion review myself and not a legal assistant or junior attorney. From the beginning, you would know that you are selecting me as your attorney as opposed to some initially unknown attorney on a website.


In my written legal opinion review, I do not just comment but also suggest changes, and may write in the suggested changes, to the contract where indicated; I like to think that it is a thorough legal opinion review. I try to explain what is important or not and further explain with some background legal information as well, sometimes even giving you links to the law or other helpful information, so the Client understands what is good and what is not and why, with understanding, and try to make it easy to navigate. I generally make my comments right on the document. (in docx or we convert to docx), making it easier for you to follow and to use for negotiation. I think of it as a form of legal education in my reviews so that you are well-informed and prepared to present to the Employer.

I have written and reviewed many such contracts as an Attorney and, as a Physician, have also worked as an employee under such contracts, giving me a great deal of insight about what is there and, importantly, what one cannot see since it may be missing. For example, one-sided provisions, missing the reciprocal provision protecting the employee.  Also, I understand what it is like to be an employee Provider and the importance to quality of life by at least trying to get some fairness stated regarding work hours, on-call, vacation and holidays.

I find it personally rewarding to help Health Care Providers understand what is positive/negative in their proposed contracts, help their understanding of what the provisions mean in legal and practical terms so that they are better prepared to discuss and negotiate with the employer and then to be aware of and understand possible pitfalls in the proposed contract so that they can make informed decisions, either way with understanding of the risks/benefits, about applicable items in the proposed contract. The Client makes all of the decisions.

We do offer a Flat Rate written legal opinion review of a "simple agreement," simple meaning mostly not an excessive number of pages (roughly 25 pages or so) and not including a formal ownership agreement) and a clean pdf or docx version (preferably not scanned). Our agreed-upon Flat Fee rate is paid in advance to our IOTA Trust Account We can see that there are services with cheap or cheaper fees; but, as justification, I do spend a great deal of time in order to do what I consider to be a thorough line by line legal opinion review and try to explain the "why?" positive or negative, of many items in the Contract. Also, I, as an attorney-physician, will review your agreement. This Flat Fee is for one contract and applies for an employment agreement. We do review and provide legal representation for equity purchase agreements, but not for a Flat Fee. 

Regarding our Flat Fee, which is substantially less than the Fee would be for our Hourly Rate, (usually less than half), we very often receive voluntary complimentary feedback from our Physician and other Health Care Provider Clients that they appreciate how very thorough our legal opinion review is and they appreciate that our review is generally done right on the contract itself in a different color font to make it easier for them to follow line by line and discuss and negotiate with the Employer. They have said that it has helped them understand their Contract provisions and how our legal opinion review has better prepared them to be able to communicate with the Employer about their Contract, due to that understanding. We also may paste additional information into our legal opinion review, such as relevant portions of the statutes, so that you have that knowledge readily available when you discuss it with the Employer.  

Turnaround time is usually within three (3) business days (or even less depending upon our schedule) beginning the day after we establish an attorney-client relationship (That attorney-client relationship is formed only when we both sign our Representation & Fee Agreement and Fees are paid in full in advance - both by emails online through the Client Portal). However, this, on occasion, may be delayed by one or more days due to our schedule at that time; I would let you know of any delay if and when you agree to our legal representation. 

The timeline for the review begins when you complete the payment in full and sign and return our Representation & Fee Agreement (both sent to you as simple Emails); and then it could begin the next day after we receive them. 

The Flat Fee also includes, after the legal review is completed and sent to you in the Client Portal, and you have had time to go over it, optional communications by either Client Portal messaging or you and I, one to one telephone call up to one hour total time (we time it but do not bill the time), if you want. Some contract review services charge extra for this.


The Flat Fee does not include negotiation, but we do try to prepare you to interact with the employer, as most of our physician and provider clients prefer to do that themselves and that is not as intimidating for the employer initially as it would be to deal with an attorney, which most employers do not like. But, in addition to the Flat Fee for the legal opinion review, we can negotiate on your behalf for an agreed-upon hourly rate, with an additional advance (in addition to the Flat Fee) estimated retainer paid in full in advance to our IOTA Trust Account, if you prefer. (This retainer is in addition to the Flat Rate).

I can tell you that it is rare for us to be requested to negotiate on behalf of our Health Care Provider Clients after our thorough legal opinion review, but, of course, still possible.

We prefer to review Employment Agreements and generally not another type of agreement, such as an Independent Contractor Agreement. 

Incidentally, we do not open documents in our Emails, so please do not email us any documents. We utilize a secure Client Portal where you select your unique password, for documents, payments and messaging, available to you 24/7, although we generally respond during normal business hours. Our Physicians and health care provider Clients say that they do appreciate the convenience of the Client Portal. We would provide simple instructions for the Client Portal (really just an email to you) if and when you agree to our legal representation. 



• Drafting and Review of Documents and Contracts (Employment, Etc.)
• Drafting and Review of Leases
• Business Relationship Contracts/Agreements
• Business Negotiations
• Joining New Associates (Employee/Ownership)
• Removing Business Relationships
• Purchase & Sale of Practice/Business
• New Entity Formation (For Example: PA/INC/LLC)
• Documents for Entity (Shareholders’ Agreement/Operating Agreement, Etc.)
• Entity Modifications/Restructuring
• Many Telehealth and Telemedicine Legal Matters

                                                                   

AFTER OUR INITIAL TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, DON'T WANT TO TRAVEL FOR A MEETING? WE CAN SCHEDULE FOR YOU TO MEET WITH THE ATTORNEY BY VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING ON YOUR PHONE, TABLET OR COMPUTER, CURRENTLY USING MICROSOFT TEAMS, WITH ITS SECURITY FEATURES.

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Florida Business and Contract Attorney representing Businesses and health care providers professionals physicians doctors and entities, Business Transactions Physician Drafting Review of Documents Contracts review physician contracts (Employment, Independent Contractor, Etc.) Drafting and Review of Leases Business Relationship Contracts Agreements Business Negotiations Joining New Associates (Employee Independent Contractor Ownership) Removing Business Relationships Purchase Sale of Practice Business New Entity Formation (PA INC LLC) Documents for Entity (Shareholders Agreement Operating Agreement, Etc.) Entity Modifications Restructuring, Video Meeting, Video Conference, Telemedicine legal matters, Telehealth legal matters