Meet Your Instructor
Kristen Nugent is the principal attorney at K. Nugent Law, a boutique law firm specializing in business law, employment law, corporate transactions, and intellectual property matters, for small- and medium-sized business owners, healthcare industry stakeholders, entrepreneurs, high net worth families, and creative professionals across the U.S. and beyond.
Ms. Nugent graduated first in her undergraduate class of 2,040 with a 4.0 GPA at the University of Notre Dame, and was top of her class (Order of the Coif) and a member of the Law Review editorial board at the University of Virginia Law School. To better serve her clients’ data privacy and protection needs, she obtained her Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) certification in 2022 and is actively involved in the Privacy & Technology Law, Health Law, and Employment Law subgroups of the Georgia Bar and the Atlanta Bar Association.
Ms. Nugent has almost two decades of legal experience, including approximately five years working as an associate at AmLaw100 (“Big Law”) firms, seven years in-house at a Fortune 100 company, and several years as counsel at a boutique law firm before opening K. Nugent Law. She is English/Spanish bilingual and conversant in several other languages, including Russian and German. Click here for Ms. Nugent's full biography.
Featured Course
Employment Law & Management for Small and Mid-Sized Healthcare Clinics
As the owner, manager, or HR director of a medical practice or other allied health clinic, cultivating a stable and clinically effective staff with high morale and loyalty to the practice is critical to delivering quality patient care and sustaining growth.
For just a fraction of the cost of one billable hour of a lawyer’s time, you’ll learn critical legal concepts and key practical skills like:
- How to draft and negotiate key provisions in physician employment agreements and set clear expectations with your medical staff.
- How to structure physician compensation packages and incorporate bonus incentives, benefits, malpractice coverage, and other perks fairly, compliantly, and effectively.
- How to approach restrictive covenants like noncompetition, nonsolicitation, confidentiality, and nondisparagement, to enforce them wisely without undermining recruitment or patient care.
- How to safeguard the valuable intellectual property funded and facilitated by your practice’s investments and resources through work-for-hire provisions, invention assignments, and clinical research contracting.
- How to apply the six-factor “economic reality” test for classifying staff as W-2 employees or 1099 independent contractors in healthcare settings and avoid misclassifications.
- How fundamental concepts of federal employment law, including wage and hour rules, ADA disability accommodations, FMLA leave, FCRA background check requirements, workers’ comp rules, OSHA standards, and more, impact smaller healthcare practices.
- How to navigate employee terminations and separations, including the distinctions between for-cause and no-cause terminations and resignations for “good cause,” issues of patient continuity of care, and handling final pay.
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Employment Law & Management for Small Healthcare Clinics Full Course Outline
- Lesson 6(a) - Employment Law Basics for Medical Practices (part 1) (15:06)
- Lesson 6(b) - Employment Law Basics for Medical Practices (part 2) (16:23)
- Background Check Compliance 101 (Checklists)
- Introduction to Policy Templates
- Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement (Templates)
- Anti-Harassment & Anti-Discrimination Policy (Templates)
- Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy (Templates)
- Disability Accommodation Policy (Templates)
- Policy on Workplace Injuries & Workers’ Compensation (Templates)
- Social Media Policy (Templates)
Coming Soon!
Law & Business for Content Creators
An in-depth examination of the law and business aspects of monetizing content creation and influencing, designed to be equivalent to a semester-long college course in substance and depth. Through over 20 video lessons, 7 immersive case studies, interactive assignments and quizzes, template documents, and bonus materials accompanying each lesson, students will build a strong foundation in the essential legal and business knowledge that every content creator needs to succeed.
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