Kevin P. Byers has an eclectic professional history which has proven beneficial in his practice defending healthcare practitioners before various licensing and regulatory agencies.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in social work from Bluffton College, a tiny Mennonite college in northwest Ohio, Kevin worked for six months as a child abuse investigator in Lima, Ohio. He then moved on to work as an adult parole officer and supervised over one hundred felons released from prison in a west-central Ohio rural area covering four counties. This work was quite challenging and required many independent investigations and arrests of parole violators. Cooperation and effective communication with a wide variety of law enforcement and social service agencies were essential traits of this position. In both of these investigative positions Kevin honed his sense of objectivity and learned to make decisions which were time-sensitive and had long-range consequences upon the lives of others. It was from these work contacts that Kevin was first encouraged by police officers, lawyers, and judges to consider pursuing law school.

After four and one-half years of fieldwork in parole, Kevin was promoted to a mid-management administrative position in the central office in Columbus, Ohio. He also was accepted into law school and began attending evening and weekend classes while continuing to work fulltime for the state of Ohio. After two and one-half years in parole management, he accepted a position as a law clerk with a trial court in Columbus. This enabled Kevin to participate and learn about the inner workings of a trial court. He continued to attend law school in the evenings and weekends and received his juris doctorate in May 1988 from Capital University Law School after four years of study.

After passing the July 1988 bar examination, Kevin was admitted to the Ohio Bar in November 1988 and presided at trial as a court referee the very next day. He continued to work for the court system as a fulltime referee, presiding at over thirty civil trials. Within his first year of working as a court referee, Kevin also saw three of his decisions selected for publication in the official reporter of court opinions in Ohio. Kevin found his duties as a judicial officer to be a vibrant area of practice and he enjoyed the challenge of presiding at trial and controlling the various aspects of litigation. An additional attraction was the rather academic, detached, endeavor of researching and drafting a decision based only on the admitted evidence and the applicable law.

After about one and one-half years as a trial court referee, Kevin moved on to the State Medical Board of Ohio where he served as an administrative law hearing examiner. During his thirty-two months on the staff of the Medical Board, he presided at sixty-five administrative hearings regarding physician licensure, discipline, and regulation. It was through this experience that Kevin saw the great need for legal counsel who was experienced in administrative litigation, intimately understood the workings of the Medical Board, had personal contacts with the Board staff and Board members themselves, and possessed knowledge and experience with both the substantive and procedural aspects pertinent to this particular niche of law.

In November 1992 Kevin opened his practice dedicated to the defense of physicians and other healthcare professionals. Kevin has had the benefit of representing over 350 physicians before the State Medical Board of Ohio, various licensing boards in other states, varied branches of the federal government, and private entities such as hospital privileging committees and insurance reimbursement panels. He has also defended physicians, nurses, and dentists in criminal court.

Although the majority of Kevin's clients have been physicians, he also maintains an active practice before the Ohio Board of Nursing, the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy, the Ohio State Dental Board, and the Ohio Board of Psychology. Additionally, Kevin has represented allied healthcare professionals before other boards in Ohio such as respiratory care, speech language pathology and audiology, and chiropractic.

From his extensive practice in this limited area Kevin has developed a network of attorneys in other states who possess comparable experience with their respective healthcare licensing and disciplinary boards. As appropriate, referrals are made to involve other attorneys to afford the most complete prophylactic, remedial, and defensive legal representation to his clients. Kevin has also worked extensively with other Ohio attorneys to jointly represent licensees before the various Ohio healthcare licensing boards.

Kevin's focused, meaningful experience representing physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and nurses has resulted in an unmatched reputation for thorough, effective legal representation with consistently optimal outcomes.