We are dedicated to bridging the gap between emergency medicine and legal knowledge. Our program aims to equip healthcare professionals with the essential legal insights needed to navigate the complex and high-risk environment of emergency medicine.
Where passion meets expertise
ER Legal Course offers a specialized online course aimed at educating healthcare professionals, particularly those in emergency medicine, about legal risks and malpractice. Created by Dr. Reese Nicolini, a seasoned emergency physician and healthcare law specialist, the course focuses on bridging the knowledge gap between medicine and law. It teaches medical practitioners how attorneys approach legal matters, including malpractice cases, and how understanding these legal principles can help them navigate the complex legal landscape. The course is designed to provide practical legal insights to protect healthcare providers from the psychological and professional toll of a lawsuit. The mission is to empower clinicians with knowledge, ensuring they are better prepared to handle legal challenges in their practice, especially in emergency situations.
Founder / Instructor
Joseph Reese Nicolini D.O. Ph.D., E.J.D.
FAAEM, FACEP
Joseph Reese Nicolini is a board certified Emergency Physician, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist currently working as full-time academic faculty in a large teaching hospital in the San Diego area.
Dr. Nicolini is a Navy veteran and decorated combat medical officer, who was deployed on land, in the air and from the sea. He learned resiliency from the ground up during four combat deployments with the United States Marine Corps.
Dr. Nicolini’s unique understanding of high-risk medical practice and ideal mental health is based upon his experiences as the Officer in Charge (O.I.C.) of both the Shock Trauma Platoon and the Forward Resuscitative Surgical System during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Dr. Nicolini’s deep understanding of Health Care Law, Physician Burn Out and Medical-Legal matters impacting health care providers is also based upon rigorous graduate studies in the law. In 2020 he earned an Executive Juris Doctorate (E.J.D.) from Purdue Global University, specializing in Health Care Law.
Links below are to articles related to the FRSS and STP:
“The U.S. Navy’s forward resuscitative surgery system during Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
“The United States Marine Corps Shock Trauma Platoon: the modern battlefield’s emergency room.”
Subject Matter Expert and Contributing Author/Editor.
Mick Meagher, Esq.
Mick is a practicing California lawyer helping mental health and addiction providers since 1994. He routinely speaks at numerous conferences and has been involved in a wide range of business consultations and legal representations over the years.
Before becoming a lawyer, he began working full time in the addiction and mental health treatment field in 1975. He first worked as a counselor at the Navy Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, at the Navy Hospital on Camp Pendleton, CA. After his discharge from the Marine Corps he worked at several treatment centers, including Scripps Memorial Hospital from 1979 – 1983, where he established the Intervention program for concerned groups and Intervention training program for professionals. Over the years Mick has guided over 2,200 Intervention groups and trained over 5,000 professionals in how to use Intervention strategies in various stages of programs. He is the author of “Beginning of a Miracle, How To Intervene with an Addict or Alcoholic”, (1987) Health Communications, Inc.
Mick has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. He consults with numerous programs nationally, and has worked in the management and restructuring of 8 treatment facilities ranging from 6 beds to 78 beds. These programs included licensed residential settings, free standing hospitals, hospital based programs, sober living programs, outpatient services, as well as partial hospital programs.
His primary focus today is ensuring treatment providers understand the laws that apply to healthcare related programs and ensuring the ethical practices of treatment are at the forefront of every treatment model.