John K. Murphy

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About John K. Murphy

John K. Murphy, JD, PA-C, MS, EFO is an attorney licensed in Washington with experience in general legal practice, employment practice liability, organizational policies development and implementation, public safety medical liability and malpractice, risk management, and human resource management. Mr. Murphy provides legal services and consulting with fire service leadership on Fire and EMS service delivery and private industry strategic planning creating innovative ways of delivering services efficiently and cost-effectively. His work includes Leadership Mediation and Unraveling Organizational Chaos and Discord. He lectures on those subjects to a national audience at various conferences and seminars. Mr. Murphy retired after 32 years as a career firefighter at the rank of Deputy Fire Chief for Eastside Fire & Rescue (Issaquah, WA) and Fire Chief of the City of Sammamish (WA). He rose in the ranks from a firefighter/paramedic to Chief Officer with extensive experience in emergency operations, recruitment and retention of employees, curriculum development and implementation of training programs, organization development, management and training of executive-level managers, and health and safety programs. He obtained his Juris Doctorate (JD) from Seattle University School of Law. He is a licensed and practicing Physicians Assistant and a former US Navy Corpsman. He is a Professor at the University of Florida Fire and Emergency Services program and the author of Legal, Political & Regulatory Environment in EMS (Pearson Publication). ISBN-10: 0135036038 • ISBN-13: 9780135036037 and Instructor at North Seattle College. Specialties: Counselor of Law (JD) Medical Practice (PA-C) Subject Matter Expert - EMS & Fire, Policy Formation and Review, Department Internal Investigations, Personnel, Recruiting, and Retention, Leadership Mentor, Mediator and Unravels Organizational Chaos and Discord