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February 10, 2020Posts

How We Defend Your Professional License in Texas

Professionals of all stripes operate under licenses granted by the state of Texas under the auspices of numerous boards dedicated to enforcing the rules of their forming agencies. This sub-branch of administrative law holds an outsized level of importance in the lives of many Texans, from doctors to electricians, who dedicate years of their lives to getting the education and training they need in order to pass muster to earn the licenses to practice their...

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February 09, 2020Posts

Becoming Aware a Complaint Has Been Filed Against Your License

Professionals are often surprised to learn that a complaint against their license was not immediately reported to them. Indeed, the process for most licensing boards—though these various boards do differ in the particulars of their requirements and the procedures by which they enforce them—is to review a given complaint thoroughly for certain criteria before alerting the professional against whom the complaint was made. Those criteria include: Whether the agency has jurisdiction over the complaint. A...

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February 07, 2020Posts

TDLR Sunset Review Begins

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TLDR) recently entered the first stage of its scheduled Sunset Review. TLDR, established by Chapter 51 of the Texas Occupations Code, is the oversight agency for a broad swath of licenses granted in the state of Texas—from Air Conditioner and Refrigeration Contractors, to Licensed Breeders, to Weather Modification, and a whole host of professions between. In each of these professions, TLDR establishes advisory boards composed of representatives from...

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February 06, 2020Posts

Maintaining Your Texas Real Estate License

In the course of engaging in the real estate market, a sales or buyer broker will on occasion be met with an official complaint against their license. In the state of Texas, the governing agency over real estate professionals is the Texas Real Estate Commission. In addition to granting licenses to individuals who have fulfilled the established criteria, the Commission also oversees the maintenance and disciplinary functions for license-holders. An official complaint can be a...

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February 04, 2020Posts

Professional License Complaints: The Type of Attorney You Need

When you are subject to a professional complaint that comes under the review of a licensing board or agency in the state of Texas, you will want to have an attorney by your side. The process is too complicated to go through on your own, and most often the boards doing the review have been put in place by the legislature to be on the complainant’s side—as protectors of the public interest—rather than giving leniency...

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February 03, 2020Posts

FAQ’s Our Clients Ask – Texas Professional License Defense

If you have received a complaint notice from your Texas licensing board, you know the meaning of the word “stress.” Since the Board has likely already done some investigation into whether the complaint merits pursuing, you’re in a situation where quick and decisive action is a must. We get asked a lot of questions by clients who contact us, many of whom are reeling and feel like they may not be able to make their...

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February 02, 2020Posts

5 Ways to Protect Your Professional License

Even when a practitioner—be they medical professional, teacher, podiatrist or architect—under investigation based on a claim is perfectly certain that the accusation is baseless, the licensing board under whose competence the claim falls is utterly in the dark on the matter. The fact is, most of these licensing boards have been charged by the legislature with protecting the public, not the licensees under their purview. Therefore, any complaint, however baseless, must be treated with complete...

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February 01, 2020Posts

Why Did My Patient File a Complaint Against Me?

It is not uncommon for patients to file complaints against physicians before the Texas Medical Board. In fact, doctors are among the most second-guessed of the licensed professions, due to the make-or-break nature of their work. People are unforgiving when they put their health in another person’s hands. The Board receives in excess of 7,000 complaints in a given year. While the most common forms of complaints against doctors are things like misdiagnosis and delayed...

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January 31, 2020Posts

Disciplinary Action Against Professional Counselors in Texas

Professional counselors in Texas are governed by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors – a subsidiary of the Department of State Health Services. Counselors are considered to be any professional who practices at the application of mental health services, psychotherapeutic services, and services using human development principles to aid people at any stage of life. The sorts of mental health intervention treatments offered by these professionals are categorized by law into four...

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January 29, 2020Posts

Criminal History Evaluation Letters for the TDLR

In order to ease the potential burden of time and money wasted for those with criminal conviction backgrounds—many of whom previously had to go through extensive training and license examination before knowing whether they would, in fact, be denied the license they seek for that preexisting reason—the Texas Legislature in 2009 put in place provisions to help people know before they undertook such burdens whether their criminal conviction backgrounds would end up being cause for...

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