Practice Groups

Health Law

PRIMARY PRACTICE

Health Care and Long Term Care, Negligence and Malpractice, Medicare and Medicaid, Fraud and Abuse, Administrative Law, Civil Practice, Transactions.

EXPERIENCE

Ms. McSharar concentrates her practice in the health care field, specializing in long term care facilities, Negligence and Malpractice, Medicare and Medicaid, fraud and abuse. Ms. McSharar was Deputy Attorney General from 1984-1986 and Indiana State Department of Health inhouse counsel from 1986-1990.

EDUCATION

Indiana University, B.A, 1978; Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1983

BAR ADMISSION

Indiana Supreme Court, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana

MEMBER

Indianapolis, Indiana and American Bar Associations, Order of the Barristers; National Order of the Barristers; American Health Lawyers Association; Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana; Defense Research Institute; Litigation Counsel of America, a Trial Lawyer Honorary Society.

SEMINARS AND PUBLICATIONS

Defensive Documentation, Indiana Association of Homes and Services for the Aging Spring Conference, 2002; Discovery – The Defendant, Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Nursing Home Liability, 2001; IDR, If You Do and If You Don’t, Indiana Health Care Association Annual Meeting, 2001, 1999; Discovery in Nursing Home Litigation, presented at Continuing Legal Education Seminars, 2000, 1999, 1997; State and National Activity in Nursing Home Litigation; Indiana Health Care Association Seminar on Immediate Jeopardy Surveys of Comprehensive Care Nursing Facilities, July 2007; It’s Not Beginner’s Luck, How to Stay Litigation Free, Indiana Health Care Association Spring Convention, April 2008.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Girls Basketball Coordinator and Coach of both grade school and high school girls basketball, Sports Committee Member, Christ the King Parish, Indianapolis.