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May 02, 2020Posts

When Your License is Threatened by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists

Psychology is a complex profession that requires years of dedication to education and post-graduate study. To practice in Texas, a psychologist is required by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to first earn a bachelor’s degree, then a master’s degree in psychology, followed by a PhD in psychology, which usually requires a substantial dissertation—all of which must be supplemented by passage of the Examinations for Professional Practice in Psychology and a minimum of...

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May 01, 2020Posts

When a Pharmacist Faces Discipline Before the Texas State Pharmacy Board

When a Texas pharmacist is confronted with a complaint or allegation that threatens their livelihood, a full-fledged defense is absolutely called for. There is a multitude of actions or circumstances that may result in various levels of discipline, and an experienced license defense attorney can aid in putting forth the strongest case for the lowest possible level of—or even no—disciplinary action. In Texas, the Texas State Pharmacy Board is charged with licensing pharmacists and with...

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April 29, 2020Posts

When a Client Claims Your Attorney Bill is Too High

The fact is, no matter how complicated a case, clients will consider an attorney’s fees to be too high. (This helps account for why we lawyers are the butts of so many jokes.) The majority of people in Texas don’t understand all of the costs, skills, or time investments that go into being a practicing attorney—and which you are entitled for them to reimburse you for. Most of the time, this just results in biting...

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April 28, 2020Posts

Responding to Complaints Against Your License

With very few limited exceptions, every Texas licensing board or commission that chooses to pursue complaints against its licensees is required to notify the license-holder of the complaint—particularly after the board or commission has determined that the complaint alleged is within its competence to investigate and discipline. When you are given such notification, it is paramount that you do nothing that may harm your defense against the complaint. The ways in which you respond at...

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April 27, 2020Posts

Facing Complaints Before the Texas Real Estate Commission

The Texas Real Estate Commission is the regulatory body that oversees licensure and disciplinary actions for Real Estate Professionals—including Real Estate Sales Agents, Brokers, Real Estate Inspectors, Easement and Right-of-Way Agents, Residential Service Companies, Real Estate Education Providers, and so on. When someone—whether a former client or a third party—feels that a Real Estate Professional has somehow violated the Real Estate License Act or the TREC Rules, they may file a complaint before the Commission....

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Student loan debt default can cause you to lose your professional license in texas

March 02, 2020Posts

When Student Loan Debt Default Could Cause You to Lose Your Professional License in Texas

Student loan debt has been in the news a lot for the past few years, as the cost of getting a higher education has skyrocketed well beyond the rate of salary inflation. Unfortunately, for quite a while a number of states—including Texas—have had laws on the books that permit licensing agencies to strip professionals of their licenses if they fall behind on payments of their student loans. Our state’s Sunset Advisory Commission back in 1988...

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March 01, 2020Posts

Licensure Consequences When an Attorney is Accused of a Crime

As an attorney, you have put in a considerable amount of time and energy toward becoming a licensed professional, including law school and passing the Texas Bar Exam. Being accused of a crime risks losing all that you have worked so hard for. Yet when an attorney has been charged with a crime, particularly a crime that the State Bar has determined to be one whose commission is germane to a lawyer’s fitness to practice...

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February 29, 2020Posts

The Risks of Accusations of Over-Prescription of Medication

It’s a hot topic in society at the moment: the over-prescription of medications. With deaths due to abuse of prescription painkillers occurring at a troubling rate—and even attributed in popular media to the death of the television character Roseanne Connors—it makes sense for our governments to keep an eye on what’s going on. But, as so often happens with any high-profile issue of grave public concern, it is far too easy for things to fall...

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February 28, 2020Posts

Murkiness in the Standards of Care and Maintaining Your Dental License

The concept of “minimum standard of care” has gone a long way toward causing damage to the livelihood of many Texas dentists. Particularly where the standards of care as established in guiding documents are murky or unclear, dentists can find themselves being held to what appeared to be only recommendations, with their livelihoods on the line. The minimum standard of care is a legal concept that basically describes the quality and type of treatment that...

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February 27, 2020Posts

Protecting Your Medical License When a Patient Falsely Claims Improper Relationship

Ever since the days of Hippocrates—who included in his famous physician’s oath the words, “In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men […]” — the concept of improper relationships in doctor-patient interactions has been a topic of concern. In today’s society, we may be seeing...

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