You’ve worked hard to advance your career, pursue your dreams, and maintain employment in the profession suited for you. Then you discover a formal complaint has been issued against you and your professional license is on the line. You need professional license defense. Maybe you’ve had your driver’s license suspended. Can you get it back? Not without legal help. The attorneys at Michigan Justice in Mount Clemens, MI, are ready to help you when your license is on the line.
When Your Professional License Is Threatened
There are many industries in Michigan that require a professional license so a person can provide a service, such as doctors, lawyers, real estate professionals, contractors, cosmetologists, chiropractors, dentists, therapists, nurses, vets, and many more. The licensing and regulating of individuals protect the health, safety, and welfare of Michigan’s citizens.
When a person feels their wellness or safety has been threatened by a licensed professional, they have the right to file a formal complaint with the state and the Bureau of Professional Licensing (BPL) that threatens your professional license. When this occurs, you need an experienced attorney on your side.
What Happens When You Receive A Formal Complaint?
If someone submits a formal complaint against you, that does not automatically mean you’ve done anything wrong or that you will inevitably lose your license. A complaint of any kind must be taken seriously. You will want a lawyer to support you through the entire experience.
When the BPL receives a complaint, here is how the process proceeds:
- Review of the complaint
- Either authorization to pursue the complaint or closing of complaint is issued
- Determination if complaint involves substance use or mental health disorder
- Investigation of complaint through interviews and evidence gathering
- Recommendation made based on investigation
The result of a formal complaint could be disciplinary action – or loss of a professional license. A lawyer will help you through the investigatory process and interviews, ensuring that your case is heard and you have the greatest chance of the case being closed.
The Legal Process to PRotect Professional Licensing
If the BPL determines that an administrative complaint must be filed because there is enough evidence to show violation, a formal charging document will be issued. Once the complaint is served, you have 30 days to respond in writing or risk automatic sanctions.
- Retain a lawyer if you have not already done so.
- If the State of Michigan believes there is an imminent threat to the public’s health, safety, or welfare, a license can be suspended.
- If the professional license or registration is suspended, you cannot practice until a compliance conference is held and the administrative hearing process is resolved.
Your attorney is your best resource for creating a reasonable proposed settlement and minimizing the monetary fine, probation, reprimand, restrictions, or suspension. Legal help also makes it possible to perhaps have your complaint dismissed entirely.
Has Your Driver’s License Been Suspended?
Having your driver’s license suspended is limiting in so many ways. Being unable to drive yourself – or family, clients, or colleagues – is an enormous inconvenience. Having to ask people for rides can quickly turn you into a burden. Plus, being homebound limits opportunities for professional, social, and personal engagement and growth.
A Michigan driver’s license suspension often occurs because of the following common reasons:
- Driving while intoxicated (OWI)
- Multiple substance abuse convictions
- Accumulation of driving record points
- Refusal to take a sobriety test
- Failure to pay child support
- Insurance law violation or policy lapse
With your lawyer’s help, you can present the most powerful evidence to reinstate your license or, if necessary, appeal the court’s decision.
Get Help When Your License Is On The Line
Rely on the expertise and caring of the lawyers at Michigan Justice to help you with any professional licensing problems or personal driver’s license suspensions. You do have rights, and the right lawyer will support them. Contact Us Today!