This course walks you through the legal landscape that surrounds anesthesia practice—from what actually constitutes medical malpractice to how cases are built, defended, and decided. You’ll learn the four required legal elements (duty, breach, causation, and harm), how evolving doctrines like “Captain of the Ship” now place individual accountability on every provider in the OR, and how production pressure, documentation quality, closed-claim data, and expert witnesses shape both your medicolegal risk and your everyday practice. By the end, you’ll be better equipped to recognize legal pitfalls, protect your license, and align your clinical decisions with defensible standards of care.