California Optical Eyewear Attorney
California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson, the Right Choice in Optical Eyewear Lawyers
With over 40 years of experience as a highly acclaimed attorney with law degrees in both California and in Great Britain and named as a Top Lawyer for the last 12 years in a row, California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the lawyer to call for your optical practice or Optical Shop and a free consultation for an overview of what is required to open a new practice or start a new endeavor.
Whether a person calls it an eyewear shop, an optician’s, an optical shop, an optician store, eyeglasses business, a vision center or a place to by glasses, this is what California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson assists opticians with in forming the right entity for an optician and drafting the necessary corporate documents and agreements so an optician is compliant with California law.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa or San Luis Obispo, in Santa Barbara, San Diego or any of the great cities in between from Palm Springs to Orange County and Los Angeles we can be of assistance from our offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach by email and by phone.
More and more medical professionals throughout the state of California are turning to California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson for help in setting up their medical practice We represent medical professionals from Sacramento to Orange County and Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Anaheim, San Clemente and Riverside and everywhere in between.
When you call our office for assistance with opening an optical practice, you’ll speak directly with California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson. We’ll give you an overview of what’s required under California law and guidance from the California State Board of Optometry so you know exactly what’s required to be compliant and how to protect your optical license as a California Licensed Optician. There’s no charge for this free consultation by phone. And don’t worry about needing to come to our office. We handle everything by emails and Priority Express Mail or FedEx to save you the need to come see us.
Our primary goal in assisting opticians to set up their practice is to set up your practice within the guidelines of California State Board of Optometry guidance so your optical license is not at risk. So whether you’re an optician in the Fresno, Palm Springs, Newport Beach, Irvine or Huntington Beach, Oakland, Long Beach or Stockton, you can count on Sebastian Gibson to provide you with the advice, guidance, contracts and assistance you need to start your new practice.
Whether you’re an Optometrist, or an Optician, California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson can help you understand what’s required under California law to help you become compliant with California State Board of Optometry guidance.
Additionally, California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson can help you in choosing the name to use for your medical practice or eyewear retail business and advise you as well should you wish to obtain a trademark as well as how to keep from choosing a name that someone else is using which could cause you to receive a cease and desist letter.
Eyewear and Eyeglasses Retail Business Law
By case law, any optician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist is free to import eyewear originating anywhere into California and sell it in the state.
However, eyewear companies cannot advertise and sell prescription glasses in the same place that customers get their eyes examined.
Only optometrists and ophthalmologists can provide optical one stop shopping, i.e. sell prescription eyewear and provide eye exams in the same location. Opticians cannot.
No optometrist can have any membership, proprietary interest, co-ownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any profit-sharing arrangement in any form, directly or indirectly, with licensed opticians (RDO ( which stands for Registered Dispensing Opticians, which is actually the business (an individual, corporation or firm which employs lens dispensers), RSLD (Registered Spectacle Lens Dispensers), or RCLD (Registered Contact Lens Dispensers) in California.
It is thus illegal for an optician to furnish or advertise the furnishing of services of an optometrist, or a physician and surgeon or to directly or indirectly employ or maintain on or near the premises used for optical dispensing, an optometrist, a physician and surgeon, or any other practitioner for the purpose of any examination or treatment of the eyes.
Case law, however, has allowed a doctor’s office to be adjacent to an optician’s office when the money paid by patients for eye exams did not go to the optician, it went to and was kept by the doctor, when the optician did not exercise control over the doctor, and when the optician did not maintain the doctor’s office.
Call For A Free Consultation with California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson
When you call California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson for a free consultation, we’ll provide you with an overview of the entire process and what’s required in order to be compliant with California law and the guidance and regulations of the California State Board of Optometry.
There’s no need for you to come to our office as today we handle all our matters by email and send documents either as pdf files attached to emails or if originals which need to be signed, by Priority Express Mail or FedEx.
Marketing and Protecting Your Optical Practice or Optical Shop
Choosing the right California Optical Eyewear Attorney is as important as choosing the right way to market and advertise your optical practice or Optical Shop once it’s set up.
We can advise you how best to use marketing tools to safely and legally market your optical practice or Optical Shop and how to protect your assets as well with insurance, an MSO (which is normally a LLC), a trademark search so your name isn’t infringing someone else’s trademark, and with carefully drafted corporate documents and agreements.
The Contact Lens Rule: A Guide for Prescribers and Sellers
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act gives people certain rights, including the right to shop around when buying contact lenses. The Act also imposes duties on contact lens prescribers and sellers, and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to develop and enforce implementing rules. In 2004, the FTC issued the Contact Lens Rule to spell out the Act’s requirements. In 2020, the FTC amended the Rule.
The Contact Lens Rule requires prescribers to give patients a copy of their contact lens prescriptions at the end of a contact lens fitting, even if the patient doesn’t ask for it. If you are willing to sell lenses to the patient, the fitting is complete and you must provide them with the prescription. Similarly, if you are simply renewing a patient’s prescription, you must provide the prescription immediately upon completion of the examination.
A patient who wants to buy contact lenses from another seller may give a copy of the prescription to that seller. If a patient doesn’t give the prescription to that seller, the seller must get the prescription information from the patient and send it to a prescriber to verify before selling the lenses.
There is a great deal more to the Contact Lens Rule which we can provide to an optician upon being retained as their eyewear or eyeglasses business attorney. It is quite complex and can cause problems for an optician if the provisions in the Rule are not followed.
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice
California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson has over 45 years of experience as a lawyer both in London and in California. With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, we represent Optometrists and Opticians throughout California from our two locations.
In addition, California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.” He’s been named a Top Lawyer for the past 12 years in a row by Palm Springs Life Magazine and is rated, “Superb,” their highest rating, by Avvo, which rates lawyers all over the country.
Today, one of the primary focus of his practice from offices in Newport Beach and Palm Desert is the representation of medical professionals, including opticians wanting to open a new practice and/or interested in starting an Optical Shop.
With law degrees in both California and Great Britain with degrees from UCLA (cum laude), the University of San Diego School of Law and Cardiff University in Wales (magna cum laude), California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has the knowledge and experience to assist Optometrists, Opticians and other medical professionals with the development, branding and trademark of their medical practice or Optical Shop and to create the business structure and contracts in compliance with California law and California State Board of Optometry guidance.
Call California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson Today For A Free Phone Consultation
When it matters most and you need a California Optical Eyewear Attorney, call California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810 to discuss how we can best assist you with your Optical practice or Optical Shop and protect you.
With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, and by providing our services to optometrists and opticians throughout California by phone and email, we’re able to assist opticians throughout California with their practices and Optical Eyewear Shops.
When you consider the time and costs you will need to spend to be in compliance, the corporate structures, documents, trademark protection and documentation of your medical services, you need to ensure all your efforts are not in vain.
At the Law Offices of California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson, we provide legal advice, draft contracts and business agreements and provide the right corporate structures for opticians, trademark and copyright protection and we can help you understand the differences in what is normally performed by a California Corporation and a Medical Services Organization (MSO) which are part and parcel of an optical practice.
California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson offers California optometrists and opticians with more than 45 years of representing business and corporate clients and is ready today to assist you today in your endeavors to grow and prosper without legal worries.
Named A Top Lawyer for 12 Years In A Row
When you work with California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson, you’re working with an attorney who has been named a 2022 Top Lawyer in the prestigious Palm Springs Life Magazine year after year, now for 12 years in a row, and who’s been named a “Superb” Lawyer, their highest rating, by Avvo, which rates attorneys all across the country.
California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson is one of those rare attorneys with experience not only representing small and medium sized businesses in California, but a lawyer who has also represented multi-national corporations internationally as well while working in London.
With over 45 years of experience as a highly acclaimed attorney with law degrees in both California and in Great Britain and named as a Top Lawyer year after year, California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the lawyer to call for your optical practice or Optical Eyeglasses Shop.
California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson Is There For You
The author of thousands of articles on the internet, Sebastian Gibson has also written for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal newspapers and is a published book author with sales throughout the U.S.
With law degrees in both the U.S. and the U.K., California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson has over 45 years of experience in California and in England and today the major focus of his practice is representing medical professionals throughout California.
Choosing the right lawyer for your optical practice or Optical Eyewear Shop can make all the difference. Sebastian Gibson is known for his wit and humor, and for helping medical professionals including nurses and physicians to create start their own practice and develop businesses which can provide a better income with less stress than what they’re currently experiencing.
Set Up A Consultation Today With California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson
If you have legal questions of how to get your optical practice off the ground in California and need a business lawyer to draft agreements or to set up your corporate structure, let us assist you and draft the agreements which will best serve your needs.
If you need assistance setting up your California eyewear retail business, you’ll want to take advantage of our expertise. Simply call the number at the top of this page and talk directly with California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson.
With offices in California in Palm Desert and Newport Beach and years of experience in London, Attorney Sebastian Gibson can assist you with your optical and eyewear legal matters throughout California.
When it matters most and you need a California Optical Eyewear Attorney for your endeavor, call California Optical Eyewear Attorney Sebastian Gibson Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810 to discuss how we can best assist you with your legal matters and protect your optical practice or Optical Eyeglasses Shop.
