Jake Kathleen Marcus, J.D., PG. Dip., is a legal expert serving the healthcare community for over thirty years. As in-house counsel to multiple healthcare companies and in private practice, she has long been immersed in the shifting regulatory landscape in which lactation consultants and other healthcare providers work. A longtime HIPAA expert, she earned a masters degree from Queen Mary University of London School of Law in Technology, Media, and Telecommunication studying international privacy law and the role of AI in healthcare.
Recently returned to private practice, Marcus represents healthcare providers and other small business owners in regulatory and compliance matters.
Currently features writer and legal columnist for the Academy of General Dentistry, she was Politics Editor at Mothering magazine until it ceased publication. While at Mothering, Marcus authored “Lactation and the Law,” a comprehensive article on U.S. public breastfeeding law, “Pumping 9 to 5,” an article on workplace pumping law which was a finalist for a MAGGIE Award and “Lactation and the Law Revisited.”
Her 37 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and on the Legal Advisory Council to La Leche League International.
Jake Kathleen Marcus, J.D., PG. Dip., is a legal expert serving the healthcare community for over thirty years. As in-house counsel to multiple healthcare companies and in private practice, she has long been immersed in the shifting regulatory landscape in which lactation consultants and other healthcare providers work. A longtime HIPAA expert, she earned a masters degree from Queen Mary University of London School of Law in Technology, Media, and Telecommunication studying international privacy law and the role of AI in healthcare.
Currently features writer and legal columnist for the Academy of General Dentistry, she was Politics Editor at Mothering magazine until it ceased publication. While at Mothering, Marcus authored “Lactation and the Law,” a comprehensive article on U.S. public breastfeeding law, “Pumping 9 to 5,” an article on workplace pumping law which was a finalist for a MAGGIE Award and “Lactation and the Law Revisited.” Jake also represents private practice healthcare providers.
Jake Kathleen Marcus, J.D., PG. Dip., is a legal expert serving the healthcare community for over thirty-five years. As in-house counsel to multiple healthcare companies and in private practice, she has long been immersed in the shifting regulatory landscape in which lactation consultants and other healthcare providers work. A longtime HIPAA expert, she earned a masters degree from Queen Mary University of London School of Law in Technology, Media, and Telecommunication studying international privacy law and the role of AI in healthcare. Jake has represented lactation consultants and other healthcare providers for twenty-five years.
Running a healthcare practice can be confusing and sometimes frightening. This session is a review of the essential compliance issues facing healthcare providers in private practice.
Healthcare professionals frequently present patients or clients with informed consent forms and believe the legal requirement has been satisfied. However truly informed consent consists of much more. This session will review the legal requirement of informed consent and the legal risks created by the failure to fully inform a patient of the risks and the benefits of any procedure.
Jake can make presentations based on the need of the group and the location of the attendees.
The first incident of violence in a relationship often occurs during pregnancy or shortly after the birth of a child. Volunteers and health care providers often feel helpless when faced with parents in violent relationships. In this session, participants will learn to recognize the signs of domestic violence, how to locate resources for parents and how to assist in maintaining the breastfeeding dyad without endangering parent or child. Participants will also learn to identify their legal and ethical obligations under their respective professional scopes of practice.
Participants will learn the elements of effective state breastfeeding legislation as well as the process by which it is created. Attendees will engage in legislative drafting as well as debate, divided into small groups that include representatives from breastfeeding coalitions and chambers of commerce. Through education, negotiation and compromise, attendees will live the legislative process.
Breastfeeding people find themselves in need of assistance in a wide variety of legal contexts. This session reviews the options available to lactating people in custody disputes, as criminal defendants, as witnesses, when called for jury duty, and as immigration detainees.
Is breastfeeding a civil right under U.S. law? What does that mean? Is your state law as strong as you think it is? An examination of differences in local laws, protections under federal laws, non-legal options available to lactating women, and your state’s particular breastfeeding-related law. This session focuses on workplace pumping.
Is breastfeeding a civil right under U.S. law? What does that mean? Is your state law as strong as you think it is? An examination of differences in local laws, protections under federal laws, non-legal options available to breastfeeding people, and your state’s particular breastfeeding law. This session focuses on breastfeeding in public accommodations, which include stores and restaurants.
