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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 22:49:22+00:00

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Mr. Ayers has represented clients in state and federal lawsuits involving a wide variety of contract disputes, government investigations (Medicare, Medicaid and Department of Defense), white collar crime, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, trademark and trade dress, and the corporate practice of medicine. Mr. Ayers enjoys Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory’s highest “AV” rating for lawyers and is listed in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers®, Guide to The Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America©, and Chambers USA as a leading health care and commercial litigation attorney in the United States. In 2016, he was named by Best Lawyers® the Wichita Health Care "Lawyer of the Year." His peer memberships include the Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys and the American Association of Health Lawyers. He is also a Fellow of the Kansas Bar Foundation.
Mr. Ayers has successfully defended qui tam (whistleblower) cases, such as Wynne v. Blue Cross Blue Shield, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95103 (December 8, 2006) and 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27832 (April 21, 2006)(dismissal of False Claims Act case); U.S. ex rel. Sikkenga v. Regence Bluecross Blueshield of Utah, et al., 472 F.3d 702 (10th Cir. 2006) (amicus curiae in False Claims Act case). Mr. Ayers served as Relators’ counsel in recently settled U.S. of America ex rel. Barnes, et al. v. Akal Security, Inc., Case No. 04-1325—MLB (D. Kan. 2008)(Dept. of Defense security guard contract), resulting in judgment for the United States in the amount of $18 million; and successfully resolved a three-year investigation of an aerospace contractor with no finding of fault and no payment of money by the contractor client.
In the last several years, Mr. Ayers brought to successful resolution, without any admission of liability, a qui tam case arising out of the False Claims Act; successfully mediated the termination of agreements that allegedly violated the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine; successfully enforced a number of restrictive covenants imposed on members of medical practices; and assisted in the separation of several physician practices from larger physician groups.
Mr. Ayers has appeared in well-over 40 injunction lawsuits in state and federal court where the issues arose out of trade secrets, restrictive covenants, or unfair competition. As a young lawyer, he second-chaired and briefed Kansas’ leading trade secret case, Koch Engineering Company, Inc. v. Faulconer (1980). He also tried and defended the appeal in Kansas’ leading irreparable harm case, Wichita Wire v. Lennox (1986). In his injunction practice, Mr. Ayers tries most of his cases to the court, but he has also tried cases to juries where the issues included fraud, breach of contract, or business defamation. For example, in May 2008 Mr. Ayers obtained a jury verdict of $250,000 plus punitive damages in a trade secret/breach of fiduciary duty case. David T. Webb & Co. et al. v. Gorges et al., Case No. 05 CV 1887 (Kan. 18th Jud. Dist. 2008).
Recognized byBest Lawyers® ​ as the 2016 Wichita Health Care "Lawyer of the Year"
Mr. Ayers has presented at seminars for the Kansas and Wichita Bar Associations and various trade associations on a wide variety of topics including Medicare investigations, business litigation, enforcing covenants not to compete, unfair competition, trade secret litigation, director and officer liability, marital dissolutions and employment law.

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