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Andrew L. Hyams

Andrew L. Hyams
Of Counsel

Email: ahyams@kcl-law.com
Born: New York, N.Y., May 31, 1954
Education: Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1976,
Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, 1991,
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1980

Practice Areas: Professional Licensure; Health Law; Contracts; Intellectual Property; Business Law

Membership: Boston Bar Association

Admissions: 1981, New York; 1984, Massachusetts

Biography

Andrew L. Hyams conducts a general business practice concentrating on contracts and intellectual property, and he also specializes in representing health professionals in licensing and disciplinary matters before their respective regulatory boards. Attorney Hyams serves as General Counsel to The Learning Annex, LP, one of the largest non-credit education companies in the U.S. 

Mr. Hyams is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York. He was formerly the General Counsel at the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where he was the principal drafter of the Patient Care Assessment regulations. He was also a Deputy General Counsel at the Boston Public Health Commission. Attorney Hyams was an Adjunct Lecturer in Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1992 to 2005.

Attorney Hyams has presented at several Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and Massachusetts Bar Association health law programs, and he has lectured for the Federal Judicial Center, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Federation of State Medical Boards and the Administrators in Medicine Society. Mr. Hyams has authored peer-reviewed articles on physician and hospital regulation for Annals of Internal Medicine; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; and American Journal of Law and Medicine. He also wrote the Licensure and Discipline chapters for two editions of the American College of Legal Medicine's publication, Legal Medicine: Legal Dynamics of Medical Encounters.

Attorney Hyams graduated from Amherst College (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School. He also earned an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health where he received the annual Samdperil Prize for best research paper in health law. Attorney Hyams resides in Newton with his wife and two sons. He is a Trustee of Temple Sinai in Brookline.
 
 
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Andrew L. Hyams
Of Counsel