Kaylee Doty

Kaylee regularly represents clients facing criminal charges, restraining orders, and professional licensing discipline. Often times clients are facing the risk of criminal prosecution from the same underlying conduct in a restraining order or professional licensure matter. Kaylee has extensive experience in navigating these situations, while protecting her clients’ best interests. She is a thoughtful and diligent advocate, keeping her clients’ concerns at the forefront of her mind. Kaylee works out of the Concord office primarily but spends a lot of time in Keene.

Criminal Defense

Kaylee represents clients facing criminal charges in circuit courts and superior courts throughout the State. She also frequently handles related administrative law hearings in the Department of Safety. She handles a wide range of issues, but often represents clients facing Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, DWI and motor vehicle offenses.

Kaylee has tried cases in multiple district courts and counseled or co-counseled jury trials in the Merrimack County Superior Court. While most criminal cases are settled, Kaylee has the knowledge, skills, experience that are needed to present a case effectively to a jury. But more importantly, she has a down-to-earth "regular person" type of charisma and vibe that really enables her to persuade jurors, who are, after all, just regular people from the community from all walks of life.

Professional Licensing

The N.H. Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (OPLC) investigates and prosecutes professional misconduct for over 54 licensing boards. Nurses, mechanics, plumbers, massage therapists, doctors... Kaylee has represented them all.

Kaylee has a unique familiarity with the OPLC process and the healthcare field. During her undergraduate education, Kaylee worked as an Emergency Department Tech and Health Unit Coordinator for approximately 5 years. That experience provided Kaylee with insight into the healthcare field environment and the pressures that healthcare workers face. Prior to working at Lothstein Guerriero, Kaylee interned at the Administrative Prosecutions Unit in the Attorney General’s Office, which used to be the unit responsible for investigating and prosecuting OPLC complaints. The OPLC has since disbanded the APU and now uses its own staff to investigate and prosecute.

Kaylee represents clients before the OPLC from the notice of complaint/investigation through adjudication. At times clients may be facing potential criminal charges or restraining order proceedings based on the professional misconduct allegations. This puts clients in a difficult position of potentially incriminating themselves or being disciplined for failing respond to the complaint. Kaylee has assisted multiple clients facing serious criminal allegations navigate the professional discipline process. In a recent instance, Kaylee was able to get the criminal investigation into the alleged professional misconduct closed out without charges and a restraining order petition dismissed.

Kaylee also regularly negotiates settlement agreements to resolve disciplinary proceedings outside of an adjudicative hearing. When a client has admittedly committed professional misconduct and does not intend to fight it, complaints can be resolved through settlement agreements containing various conditions, such as continuing education requirements, counseling, supervision, fines, etc.

Kaylee also represents clients seeking licensure that face obstacles. For example, a Board may believe a client is not qualified or otherwise eligible for licensure and schedule a hearing on the issue. Kaylee has represented clients through these sorts of hearings before the OPLC.

Domestic Violence Protective Orders and Stalking Orders

Kaylee represents clients facing protective order proceedings, whether paired with criminal charges or simply just the civil restraining order matter. She has succeeded in getting numerous DVPO and Stalking Petitions dismissed.

If a DVPO or Stalking Order is issued, it is in place for one year and prohibits the defendant from possessing any firearms during that period. It also impedes travel by flagging TSA and subjecting the defendant to additional search and questioning.

When related to conduct facing criminal proceedings, protective order matters can be tricky to navigate. There may be times when it’s in the client’s best interest to not challenge the protective order in an attempt to resolve the criminal matter. A protective order proceeding can also be an opportunity to hear the alleged victim’s testimony and use it to impeach them at the criminal trial. Kaylee has cross-examined victims at restraining order hearings and used the transcripts to resolve criminal matters on multiple occasions. Every case is different, a restraining order hearing could be an obstacle or a tool, but Kaylee advises and helps her clients navigate them with the potential risks or benefits in mind.

Background

Kaylee was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. Prior to attending law school, Kaylee worked as a paralegal in Phoenix, assisting with criminal defense and personal injury cases.

Kaylee earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where she was a three-year recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship. Kaylee started with our firm during law school as a law clerk. She proved to be a real star at legal research and legal writing, finding winning precedents and making winning arguments for our clients. This led the firm to recruit Kaylee to be an associate attorney, long before she took and passed the New Hampshire Bar.

Admissions:

• New Hampshire State Bar
• United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Education:

• B.S., Arizona State University
• J.D., University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law