This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics tackles the increasingly difficult legal issues facing doctors today, guest edited by Joseph Kahn, Brendan Magauran, and John Olshaker. Topics include: -Clinical Practice Guidelines,- -The Legal Process: Being a Defendant or an Expert Witness,- -Professional Liability Insurance,- -Informed Consent, AMA, Refusal of Care, Capacity,- -CQI, Incident Reports, Reporting Requirements, PEER Review,- and more