MTLA Establishes New Medical Negligence Section
On behalf of MTLA, and with great plea- sure, I would like to announce that the MTLA Board of Governors has approved the formation of a section devoted solely to the needs and interests of plaintiffs’ medical negligence attorneys. The goals of the MTLA Medical Neg- ligence Section are threefold:
1. To generate and promote educational opportunities, seminars, issue forums, events and other activities which ad- dress the needs of lawyers representing the victims of medical negligence;
2. To provide a network of communica- tion and collegial support among plaintiffs’ medical negligence lawyers;
3. To promote frank and open discussion and exchange of information among Medical Negligence Section members by assuring, to the extent practicable, that information shared is used exclu- sively for the representation of victims of medical negligence.
To achieve these goals, the Medical
Negligence Section will not only sponsor high quality seminars on medical malprac- tice issues open to all attorneys, but will also hold regular closed door “section members only” seminars (expected to oc- cur bimonthly) where physicians and top medical malpractice attorneys will edu- cate Section members about medical and legal issues of particular concern to medi- cal malpractice attorneys. In addition, the Medical Negligence Section has estab- lished a “section members only” listserv dedicated entirely to medical malpractice postings. All regular MTLA members in good standing, who actively represent plaintiffs in medical negligence actions, are eligible to apply for membership in the MTLA Medical Negligence Section upon submit- ting an application and paying the $100 annual membership fee. Membership applications are reviewed by the Section Executive Committee in light of the Section’s goal “to promote frank and open discussion and exchange of information among Medical Negligence Section mem- bers by assuring to the extent practicable
that information shared is used exclusively for the representation of victims of medi- cal negligence.” Therefore, no attorneys who represent defendants in medical neg- ligence actions, or whose firm represents such defendants, are allowed membership. (On a case-by-case basis, the Section Ex- ecutive Committee may award membership to plaintiffs’ medical mal- practice attorneys, who individually, or by their firm, occasionally act as personal counsel to health care providers). Any attorney who uses information (or
allows others to use information) obtained from MTLA Medical Negligence Section resources for the defense of a medical neg- ligence claim shall be immediately terminated from Section membership and shall be ineligible for reinstatement. Therefore, if you are a plaintiffs’ medi- cal malpractice attorney, MTLA invites your participation in this new member benefit to help you in representing your clients.
Wayne M. Willoughby, Chair, MTLA Medical Negligence Section
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Trial Reporter
Fall 2001
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