Chicago Professional License Attorney Illinois Licensure Board Representation

Thomas A. Zimmerman is eminently qualified to represent doctors, dentists, psychologists, veterinarians, optometrists, insurance and real estate agents and other professionals who are:

• Seeking licensure

• Facing disciplinary sanctions against their Illinois state license

• Requiring legal representation in administrative law judge trials

Zimmerman Law Offices, P.C. is based in Chicago, Illinois and represents clients in Cook County, DuPage County, Lake County, and statewide. The firm represents clients in license applications and discipline hearings before the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation General Information

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) licenses over one million professionals in approximately one hundred different industries. The IDFPR is in place to protect the public welfare by ensuring that licensed professionals are adequately tested and qualified for their professions and by enforcing and maintaining rigorous standards within each profession and division that it regulates. To effectively carry out its various activities, the IDFPR is comprised of four Divisions:

The Division of Professional Regulation

The Division of Insurance

The Division of Banking

The Division of Financial Institutions

Qualified to Represent Professionals in Licensure Issues

Tom Zimmerman has been honored as one of the "Top 40 Illinois Lawyers Under Age 40" for his effective counsel and integrity in legal representation. He is qualified to defend professionals in licensure matters before the IDFPR through his extensive litigation experience and his work in two key appointments:

• Appointed by the Governor of Illinois to the Illinois Courts Commission, overseeing disciplinary action involving judges

• Appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Review Board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to handle appeals of lawyers charged with professional misconduct.

Significant Results in all Categories of Licensure

In representing medical, insurance, and other professionals, Zimmerman Law Offices, P.C. has obtained many favorable results for clients:

• Successfully appealed to the Illinois Circuit Court the Department's suspension of a doctor's license. The suspension was vacated and reversed.

• Successfully appealed to the Illinois Circuit Court a denial of an application for a pharmacist license (vacated and reversed). As a result, it was the first time in Illinois that a graduate of a Russian pharmacy school was granted a license in Illinois.

• Successfully sued the Department to compel it to return stolen patient records.

Mr. Zimmerman has represented a wide range of professionals in an array of legal matters before the Department:

• Cosmetologist - denial of application for licensure

• Clinical psychologist - public disclosure of patient records

• Dentist - fraudulent billing, sanitation, negligence, unprofessional conduct, dental assistants performing procedures, continuing dental education, patient abandonment

• Doctor - lethal dosage gross negligence, sexual activity in the presence of a patient, unprofessional patient care, failing to report prior sanctions against hospital privileges, improper recordkeeping, improper billing, aiding the unlicensed practice of medicine

• Insurance agency - premium trust account irregularities, failing to remit premiums to insurance company

• Insurance broker and agent - conversion of premium funds, breach of fiduciary duty

• Locksmith - unprofessional conduct, overbilling, failure to respond to request for documents, aiding the unlicensed locksmith practice, failing to adequately supervise employees

• Locksmith agency - false advertising, overbilling, fraud in obtaining locksmith agency license, failure to have branch office license, unprofessional conduct, willful deception of the public

• Optometrist - practicing without an Illinois license, continuing education issues

• Pharmacist - denial of application for licensure

• Real estate agent -continuing to sell real estate while license suspended, continuing education requirements, failure to promptly deposit earnest money

• Real estate appraiser - failing to meet request for records, Scope of Work Doctrine, improper appraisal

• Real estate brokerage firm - contracts with agents, audits by the Department, improper disbursement of earnest money, failure to provide required documents to agents

• Registered nurse - false report regarding patient injury, false statements on job and license applications, improper actions towards patient, misappropriation of medication, impairment due to alcohol abuse

• Security alarm agency - employing untrained and unlicensed contractors

• Veterinarian - negligence, unprofessional conduct, failing to meet request for medical records

Zimmerman Law Offices, P.C. represents individuals and companies licensed by the Department relative to license applications (and denials), informal and formal inquiries from the Department, entering into consent decrees, disciplinary actions taken against the license (probation, suspension, revocation), and representing professionals at informal conferences at the Department or trials before an administrative law judge.

NOTE: Zimmerman Law Offices, P.C. also represents clients with issues relating to federal Department of Health and Human Services licensure.

Contact Illinois licensure board attorney Thomas A. Zimmerman for experienced, effective representation regarding a license application denial or defense against charges of ethics violations, fraud, or professional misconduct. Zimmerman Law Offices, P.C. offers a free initial consultation, representing clients statewide.