California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice for Opticians
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 Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is the lawyer to call for your optical practice or eyewear business and a free consultation for an overview of what is required to open a new optical practice or start a new eyewear retail endeavor.
Whether you’re in Santa Ana, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa or Carmel, 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.
Today, more and more medical professionals throughout the state of California are turning to California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson for help in setting up their California Optical practice. We represent medical professionals from San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles to all the great cities of Northern and Southern California, the mountain cities, deserts and everywhere in between.
When you call our office for assistance with opening an optical practice, you’ll speak directly with California Optician Lawyer 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 optician license is not at risk. So whether you’re an optician in Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs, Newport Beach, Irvine or Anaheim, in Napa, Long Beach or San Jose, 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, Optician or Ophthalmologist, California Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can help you in choosing the name to use for your optical 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.
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named a Top Lawyer for the past 12 years by the prestigious Palm Springs Life Magazine. With law degrees in both California and in Great Britain, Sebastian Gibson has been called “brilliant” and “a legend.”
A graduate of UCLA (cum laude), the University of San Diego School of Law and Cardiff University in Wales (magna cum laude), and with law degrees in both California and Great Britain, California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has over 45 years of practice as an lawyer both in California and in London.
Today, one of the primary focus of his practice from offices in Newport Beach and Palm Desert is the representation of medical professionals, including optometrists and opticians wanting to open a new practice and/or interested in starting an eyewear business.
Registered Dispensing Opticians
Registered Dispensing Opticians are individuals, small businesses, corporations, and firms engaged in the business of filling prescriptions written by licensed physicians and surgeons for prescription lenses.
The Registered Dispensing Optician certificate authorizes the applicant and its employees to engage in the business of providing the fitting and adjusting of spectacle and contact lenses. Employees must obtain Spectacle Lens Dispenser and Contact Lens Dispenser registrations.
California Business and Professions Code Section 2540 states that no person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may measure the powers or range of human vision or determine the accommodative and refractive status of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or prescribe ophthalmic devices.
A prescription ophthalmic device includes any spectacle or contact lens ordered by a physician and surgeon or optometrist, that alters or changes the visual powers of the human eye.
A dispensing optician includes a spectacle lens dispenser, a contact lens dispenser, a nonresident ophthalmic lens dispenser, or a registered dispensing ophthalmic business.
Spectacle Lens Dispensers
California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.1 provides an individual shall not fit and adjust spectacle lenses unless the individual is a duly registered spectacle lens dispenser or the individual is an unregistered individual who performs the fitting and adjusting under the direct responsibility and supervision of a duly registered spectacle lens dispenser whose certificate of registration is then conspicuously and prominently displayed on the premises.
Contact Lens Dispensers
A Contact Lens Dispenser must be a duly registered contact lens dispenser or an unregistered individual who performs the fitting and adjusting under the direct responsibility and supervision of a duly registered contact lens dispenser who is then physically present on the registered premises. In no event may a registered contact lens dispenser supervise more than three unregistered individuals.
Nonresident Ophthalmic Lens Dispensers
A person located outside California shall not ship, mail, furnish, or deliver in any manner, ophthalmic lenses at retail to a patient at a California address unless the person is registered with
the California State Board of Optometry.
This certificate authorizes a business located outside of California to ship, mail, or deliver in any manner, replacement contact lenses at retail, pursuant to a valid prescription, to a patient at a California address.
With regard to Nonresident Ophthalmic Lens Dispensers, only spectacle lenses and replacement contact lenses provided pursuant to a valid prescription may be shipped, mailed, furnished, or delivered directly to a patient.
Registered Dispensing Ophthalmic Businesses
Individuals, corporations, and firms engaged in the business of filling prescriptions of physicians and surgeons licensed by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, or optometrists licensed by the California State Board of Optometry for prescription lenses and kindred products are known as dispensing ophthalmic businesses and may not engage in that business unless registered with the California State Board of Optometry.
Other Laws and Regulations Regarding an Optical Practice in California
There are a great number of other laws and regulation which govern the practice of opticians in California. One should not by any means assume that the brief discussion of some of the laws governing optical practices in this article are all there is. There is much, much more which applies to optometrists and opticians both in statutory law, regulations and case law.
Call For A Free Consultation with California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson
When you call California Optician Lawyer 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 Opticianry Practice or Eyewear Business
Choosing the right California Optician Lawyer is as important as choosing the right way to market and advertise your optical practice or eyewear business once it’s set up.
We can advise you how best to use marketing tools to safely and legally market your optical practice or eyewear business 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.
California Opticianry Business Attorney Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice
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 eyewear business and to create the business structure and contracts in compliance with California law and California State Board of Optometry guidance.
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 Attorney to Have On Your Side
When you work with California Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is the lawyer to call for your optical practice or Optical Eyeglasses Shop.
Call California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson Today For A Free Phone Consultation
When it matters most and you need a California Optician Attorney for your practice or an optical eyeglasses shop, call California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810 to discuss how we can best assist you with your practice and eyewear business 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 eyewear and eyeglasses retail businesses.
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 Optician Lawyer 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 for an optician and a Medical Services Organization (MSO) which are part and parcel of an optical practice.
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson offers California 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.
Call A California Optician Lawyer With Over 45 Years of Experience
When you work with California Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is the lawyer to call for your optical practice or eyewear business.
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson Is There For You
California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been chosen one of the Top Lawyers for the past 12 years by Palm Springs Life Magazine for good reason. 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 Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has over 45 years of experience in California and in England.
Choosing the right lawyer for your optical practice or eyewear business can make all the difference. Sebastian Gibson is known for his wit and humor, and has also been named as a “Superb” Lawyer by Avvo, which rates attorneys throughout the U.S.
Set Up A Consultation Today With California Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer 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 Optician Lawyer for your endeavor, call California Optician Lawyer Sebastian Gibson Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810 to discuss how we can best assist you with your legal matters and protect your eyewear business.
