Louisville, Kentucky, Professional Licensure Lawyers

Safeguarding your professional license is a top priority. If you are a physician, nurse, dentist, pharmacist, attorney, medical or mental health professional or other licensed professional with a license at risk, we are well prepared to provide a strong and effective defense.

We protect your license by providing comprehensive representation from the onset of a board investigation. Our objective is to prevent an investigation from becoming a formal board complaint. In many instances, however, a doctor, nurse, dentist, pharmacist or other licensed professional fails to retain an attorney until after a formal board complaint has been filed. In such cases, we are experienced in commencing legal representation midstream to prevent a complaint from becoming a restriction, suspension or revocation of your professional license. If your license already has been restricted, suspended, surrendered or revoked, we will petition the board to lift your restriction or reinstate your license.

Our attorneys handle any matter relating to your professional license, including:

• Board Investigations
• Formal Board Complaints
• Disciplinary Hearings
• Hospital Actions
• Board Application Issues
• Appeals of Adverse Board Findings
• Medicare, Medicaid & Insurance Appeals
• Criminal Defense

Rich Professional Licensure Experience

Valenti Hanley & Robinson PLLC offers the services of L. Chad Elder, a former litigation attorney for the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and Brian Good, a lawyer with years of experience defending physicians, nurses and other licensed professionals in board actions. After litigating medical board cases against each other, Mr. Elder and Mr. Good joined forces to represent doctors and other licensed professionals before their state boards. Together, they offer clients detailed knowledge of the administrative and procedural intricacies of board investigations, negotiated settlements, litigation of disciplinary actions, and appeals of adverse board findings.

In some cases, licensed professionals face not only board action against their license, but also criminal charges in a court of law. Criminal charges often are based on allegations of drug possession or diversion, sexual misconduct, and forged and improper prescriptions. As former state and county prosecutors, Mr. Good and Mr. Elder have the experience and skill to defend the professional against criminal charges (misdemeanor or felony) and board actions.

Our attorneys are prepared to defend you and your professional license before a licensing board or in a court of law. We encourage you to contact us at the onset of a board investigation, criminal investigation or when application problems first arise. Early intervention allows our attorneys to protect your interests before additional problems develop. Contact attorneys Chad Elder or Brian Good today.