Our specialist service to Dental Professionals
Solicitor Jonathan Cobbold has 13 years' experience in providing legal advice to medical and healthcare professionals. Due to the depth of this experience, he can effectively and efficiently advise upon all legal aspects of setting up & running a dental practice. Though based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, he has gained an unrivalled reputation, advising many hundreds of dental specialists throughout the UK. Jonathan is a pragmatic lawyer, whose legal advice is typically offered on the basis of a fixed price quotation, thus reducing financial concerns. Indeed his advice is primarily directed at saving money for his clients, and minimising the risks associated with making costly mistakes.
Impartial Advice
We offer impartial, objective legal advice regarding the vast majority of problems experienced by the sole practitioner Dentist as well as the more complex legal issues facing multi-practitioner dental practices.
Support for you, your Practice Managers and your Dentists
We can assist you and your practice manager with a range of legal queries that you may have from time to time; some points can be dealt with by a short 'phone call and anything further can be dealt with either by viewing the relevant correspondence, visiting the clinic or advising in greater detail whether in writing, by email or over the telephone.
Latest Developments in Employment Law
Our legal advice can be tailored to an individual Dentist or a multi-partner practice and covers most aspects of both UK and European law. Common examples are issues such as unfair dismissal, redundancy, wrongful dismissal, maternity rights and health and safety law.
We can also advise you on matters such as cost-sharing / expense-sharing agreements and maintaining the self employment status of fellow Dentists whom you allow to share premises with you.
Partnership Agreements
We offer effective advice on preparing agreements for partners, assistants and other staff when joining or leaving the practice / clinic.
We can either review and hone home-made drafts or prepare a bespoke partnership agreement for you.
Assistance regarding disputes between Partners, Staff and Others
We can focus parties on the key legal topics and if desired take cases on the practice's behalf, including all aspects of UK Employment Law.
Advice on financial aspects of running a Dentist's Practice
We regularly provide invaluable advice on practice funding. We offer specialist legal guidance on the best means to fund surgery acquisitions, as well as how to achieve effective valuations, sale and leaseback arrangements and practice mergers.
Buying and Selling Practices
We regularly act for practitioners who are retiring from, or buying general dental practices. Whether during arms-length transactions, or when you are buying or selling a practice, we can assist in ensuring that the process runs smoothly and is as tax-efficient as possible.
As part of the process we regularly deal with the buying and selling of National Health Service [NHS] practices. We are experienced in the interpretation of General Dental Service [GDS] and Personal Dental Services [PDS] contracts and in advising you as to which appropriate legal route to go pursue in order to effect the sale/purchase of the NHS dental contract from the Primary Care Trust [PCT]
A Legal Health Check for a Fixed Fee
We are happy to put together a competitive quotation to review any of your legal paperwork or to provide more general legal advice as to what documentation we think your practice should consider using. Click here to complete our no-obligation legal health-check enquiry form.
Alternatively, click here to email Jonathan Cobbold or telephone him to discuss your needs in detail on 01284 763333.
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