 Health Law was first adopted as a separate legal specialty in which attorneys could become "board-certified" and in which they could hold themselves out as a "legal specialist" or "legal expert" by The Florida Bar's Board of Legal Specialization in 1995.Later Texas adopted a similar program in 2002 modeling its program after Florida's.One way in which an attorney in the United States can obtain additional education to practice health law or to use in becoming certified in the specialty of health law is through one of the Master of Laws (LL.M.)