Burke Lawyers is a commercial, property, disputes and estates focused law firm, with a trusted reputation built over 70 years, to help businesses and professionals navigate legal complexity with confidence. We work closely with our clients to reduce risk, safeguard value, progress with purpose, and achieve meaningful and commercial outcomes.
Within the health and medical sector, Burke Lawyers advises and supports health and medical practitioners, healthcare businesses and entrepreneurs with the commercial and legal foundations that underpin sustainable and good professional practice, operations and growth. Our work spans business establishment and structuring, shareholder and partnership arrangements, business and transaction advice, commercial contracting, property and leasing, business and land acquisitions and disposals, succession planning, dispute resolution, litigation, wills, trusts and estates. We are frequently engaged at key transition points, including growth, restructuring, buying and selling, entry or exit of owners, incentivising key persons, and dispute scenarios, where clear, commercially grounded advice is critical. However, we find our clients benefit the most from an ongoing relationship with our firm – we get to know you and your business closely, and our advice is more effective, efficient and intentional meaning better outcomes for our clients.
We understand the pressures faced in healthcare in balancing patient care, compliance obligations and business performance. Our role is to simplify complex legal issues and provide advice that is practical, strategic and aligned with our clients’ objectives. We focus on early risk identification, goal setting, design and proactive problem-solving, helping clients avoid non-compliance and disputes where possible and manage them effectively and quickly when problems arise.
Burke Lawyers works closely with our clients’ accountants, financial advisers and other professional service providers to deliver coordinated support. Our team is responsive, approachable and committed to building long-term relationships based on trust and clarity.
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Special Members Offer
Fixed Fee Medical or Health Practitioner Service Agreement and Accompanying Practical Advice for DOCEO Members
Burke Lawyers is pleased to offer DOCEO members a fixed fee for Service Agreement & Accompanying Advice which includes: 1. Preparing an appropriate form of master template draft Services & Licence Agreement to be used between the medical or health centre / practice and owner and non-owner medical and health practitioner businesses which properly records the intended relationship; 2. Provide the medical or health centre / practice with written advice supporting the Services & Licence Agreement and how the legal relationship governed by this Agreement is intended to work (and not work), particularly in practice between the parties; and 3. Review of the current lease for the business premises specifically on the point of the relationship between the medical or health centre / practice and the medical and health practitioner businesses, and advising on any requirements of the lease in this regard. The intention is that this template could be rolled out or suitably adapted with many medical and health practitioners, ensuring this relationship and the contract that records it is compliant, clear, and fit for purpose.DOCEO Member Price (Fixed Fee) $4,890 including GST
A Fixed Fee Legal & Business Health Check for DOCEO Members
As part of our collaboration with DOCEO, Burke Lawyers offers a fixed fee legal and business health check for DOCEO members. We come to meet with DOCEO members when and where suits them to get to know more about the members’ business, challenges, goals, legal and business vulnerabilities and areas of compliance needs and concerns. In this meeting, we advise DOCEO members on these issues, where possible. We then develop a tailored workplan that maps out your legal and business needs with priorities to improve and protect the business, and timeframes. We include in this workplan our professional fees for our assisting with its implementation if this is what our clients seek.Some of the benefits of this time with your business at the outset to understand its operations, strategy and objectives means: • You get ahead of risk and legal and commercial issues as they arise, instead of worrying about them and waiting for them to become real problems; and • You save the business time, money and inconvenience down the track, in having trusted legal advisers on call who understand the business and its owners as and when we are required.With extensive experience advising medical and healthcare businesses, we provide clarity on the law, obligations, risks, compliance and alignment to current industry standards.DOCEO Member Pricing $750 including GST.