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How to React When You Learn Your Licensing Board Has Received a Complaint

March 21, 2021Posts

Complaints made to the agencies, commissions and licensing boards of Texas are serious. These complaints and the investigations that follow have the power to level a professional's reputation and may even result in suspension or revocation of their license. Which is to say, a Texas professional who receives notice of a formal complaint against their license is in a state of crisis. And a crisis requires an immediate response. Some professionals who consider a complaint...

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Attorneys Who Defend Other Texas Attorneys in State Bar Disciplinary Actions

March 19, 2021Posts

Any Texas attorney who finds they have been made the subject of a formal complaint before the State Bar should take immediate action to protect their license to practice law. No attorney wants to suffer the blow to their reputation and potentially to their livelihood that may come from censure by the Bar—and that blow becomes complete where an attorney is disbarred. Yet even where a claim is baseless, having to go through the complaint...

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When is the Texas Board of Nursing Required to Suspend or Revoke a Nursing License?

March 17, 2021Posts

The possibility they may lose their license is one of the greatest professional fears that nurses live with. Complaints to the Texas Board of Nursing sometimes have the unfortunate outcome of revocation of licensure, mainly where violations of relevant code and rules are considered egregious enough. Of course, usually, there is some latitude in the discipline that the Board doles out, allowing it to be lenient where it believes improvement is still possible. But there...

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When a Texas Insurance Agent is the Subject of a Formal Complaint

March 15, 2021Posts

Every year, many complaints—numbering in the thousands—are formally filed against Texas insurance agents. Many of these are founded in evidence, but many are not. The Texas Department of Insurance accepts these formal complaints as the body governing the licensing and maintenance of insurance agents. Any insurance agent who has a complaint filed against them may find their license to practice real estate—and with it, their career and livelihood—is in peril. When a member of the...

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Not Following Advertising Rules Might Cost Texas Realtors Their Licenses

March 13, 2021Posts

Without advertising, Texas realtors would be hard-pressed for ways to generate clients. Yet those licensed to practice real estate are not permitted by the state to simply release any sort of advertisement they may want to. Rules and regulations pertaining to realtor advertising have been established, ostensibly for the protection of the public. The Texas Real Estate Commission reports that among the most frequent complaints it receives against realtors are violations of these advertising rules....

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