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License Trouble With the California State Board of Optometry?

  • Are you under investigation by the California Board of Optometry, or afraid you will be soon?
  • Have you recently been arrested or convicted in criminal court and worry  this will affect your optometry license?
  • Is your California optometry license being revoked, suspended, or placed on probation by an accusation?
  • Has the Board of Optometry denied your optometrist license application with a statement of issues?

If so, you’ve come to right website. Our short video will explain to you what you need to now right now — in under two minutes!

Protect and Defend your Livelihood

Your California State Board of Optometry license is by far one of your most valuable assets. The time, money, and personal effort you have invested in educating yourself and achieving Optometry licensure is significant. When your optometrist license is threatened with revocation, suspension, or probation by an accusation, or when your application for licensure is denied with a statement of issues, your entire livelihood is threatened. You must act promptly.

You Have Legal Rights

You have the right to defend yourself by demanding a trial before an administrative law judge where you can confront and cross examine witnesses, and challenge the investigative findings of the California Board of Optometry. You may issue requests for discovery, subpoenas to compel the appearance of witnesses and documents. You may call witnesses in your own defense, including fact, expert and character witnesses, and introduce mitigation evidence to context. You may challenge the decision to the superior court.

Don’t Risk Going It Alone

Don’t waste valuable time and risk your optometry license trying to do this yourself. You may irretrievably forfeit important legal rights by simple mistakes, and by not knowing how to approach this crisis. Hiring a knowledgeable California State Board of Optometry license defense attorney early during the investigation stage of your license discipline case can considerably improve the likelihood of a positive outcome for you. Contact our law firm now to confidentially discuss your situation with an experienced license defense lawyer.

California Board of Optometry License Defense Lawyers

California Board of OptometryAre you facing a license investigation, accusation, or statement of issues by the California State Board of Optometry? Our law firm’s experienced legal team of license defense attorneys, paralegals, lawyers, and professionals can help you protect your optometrist license.

Sight is one of our most precious and valuable senses, making the the care of our eyes among our biggest health priorities. As an optometrists, also known as doctor of optometry (OD), you use special equipment and a keen eye to diagnose vision problems and eye diseases while testing patients for visual acuity, focus, depth and color perception.

Although your training as an optometrist finds you prescribing and dispensing eyeglasses and contact lenses, it can also provide vision therapy and, in some cases, rehabilitation as well, analyzing and testing results as you develop treatment plans. In the recent past, many optometrists have also become experts in laser vision correction, freeing many of patients from their glasses or contacts entirely.

California requires that optometrists be licensed through the California State Board of Optometry after having received a Doctor of Optometry degree from an accredited optometry school and having passed exams at the national, regional, state and local clinical board levels as well.

As with other health care practitioners who deal with the human condition, your optometry license can come under attack for purported misdiagnoses, standards of care, unexpected outcomes, etc. A qualified license defense lawyer can go a long way in helping you keep your license and stay in business. For more information on how a seasoned license attorney at Rose Law can help, call us at (800) 456-3767.

California State Board of Optometry Defense Attorneys

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