Isabelle Lucas-Baloup’s law firm has expanded, since 1979, in the broad field of health care and embraces amongst others:

Practice areas > hospital law
Obtaining authorization to open an hospital service, a care program, an hospital function etc. supposes the compliance with specific norms.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup helps hospitals who wants to obtain an authorization or whose request for recognition has been refused or suspended.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup will also offer legal aid in discussions between hospital administrators and doctors concerning e.g. working conditions, dismissal, fee deduction, general regulation issues, etc.

Isabelle Lucas-Baloup works on legal solutions for problems connected with forms of cooperation between hospitals, such as mergers, groupings, associations, networks, holdings, etc.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup has, for that purpose, an eye for the regulation in the frame of hospital legislation but as well as other related legislation.

Practice areas > medical devices
Medical devices and accessories are increasingly subject to specific rules.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup helps firms which are faced with complications concerning the bringing on the market of medical devices as well as concerning reimbursement regulations (relationship with French agencies and public authorities such as AFSSAPS, HAS, DGCCRF, Autorité de la concurrence, etc.).

Practice areas > professional practice of health care professions
Doctors, pharmacists, dentists, nurses and all other professional practitioners in the health care are subjects to specific rules concerning the exercise of their profession.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup advises and guides those professional practitioners as well as public authorities with problems concerning the practice of medicine. Professional practitioners, such as doctors, often need contractual or structural legal guidelines for the exercise of their profession.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup advises professional practitioners also with the drawing up and the elaboration of contracts and/or statutes.

Practice areas > pharmaceutical law
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup guides pharmaceutical firms wanting to bring medicinal products on the market from the investigation phase onwards to the commercialization phase.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup offers legal advice during the editing of documents such as investigator contracts and agreement forms for phase I, II and III studies.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup helps firms in legal areas of the marketing authorization of medicinal products. The resolution of problems connected with distribution and/or promotion and advertising or privacy and reimbursement of pharmaceutical products also belongs to the practice of Isabelle Lucas-Baloup.

Practice areas > competition and health care
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup is increasingly associated with legal competition cases. It concerns the impact of competition law on the acquisition/sale of medicinal products and medical devices as well as on the price policy with regard to pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup also offers legal advice about the impact of competition law on the cooperation between hospitals and/or health care professionals or organizations. The competition legislation is often taken into consideration in legal administrative discussions.

Practice areas > medical liability
Professional practitioners, institutions or producers of medicinal products, medical devices or products are increasingly involved in civil or criminal liability trials.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup offers aid to health care actors involved in this type of procedures.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup offers legal advice for the drawing up of clinical standards or clinical paths to prevent claims or for the elaboration of out-of-court settlements.

Practice areas > privacy and data protection
Processing of health data for different aims (treatment, research, quality, statistics, etc.) requires the compliance with specific rules.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup guides the health care actors in charge of processing with the elaboration of information and/or consent forms, privacy policies, contracts with processors, notifications, privacy regulations and contracts concerning data transfer.

Practice areas > disciplinary law
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup offers legal advice to instances and professional practitioners in the health care involved in disciplinary rules.

Practice areas > bio-Ethics
Questions needing an ethical as well as a legal approach raise at the beginning and at the end of life.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup offers a legal approach for delicate questions related to the developing technology and concerning the use of embryos, body material, experiments, euthanasia.
Isabelle Lucas-Baloup acts for professional practitioners, institutions or advisories.