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Saving Professional License

This is one of the big things that I work on when it comes to representing professionals on criminal cases, and that is saving people's professional licenses — doctors, lawyers, real estate agents — the list goes on and on. I have clients coming to me, and their main fear, which makes perfect sense, is, listen, this is how I make my money.

These guys are going to use this criminal offense against me, and I'm going to be looking at not only time in jail and other penalties related to my criminal case, but I'm going to be looking at losing my professional license. A lot of things we can do related to this are to discuss these things with the prosecutors and the judge to see if it makes sense under the circumstances of your case.

It's one thing to fight the case, and we do that all the time, but sometimes people cannot fight it because the prosecutors have the evidence they need to prove it. So, we must take other tactics and approaches related to your criminal case and save your professional license.

Type of Professional License

One of the first things I do is get the details related to the license. In other words, what type of crime would be acceptable about your license?

Sometimes, that requires coordinating with an attorney who fights cases related to your professional license; I've been involved in professional license hearings with the Medical Board and other agencies. Still, a lot of times, I will coordinate with whoever the attorney is going to be who's going to help try to save your license so that we can try to get a resolution that takes into account what the Licensing Board is going to be looking at when they're deciding for you and our career.

The cornerstone of many people's lives is their professional careers. They've got to have that to pay their bills, their mortgage, and survive, so this is one of the things that we try to zero in on related to these criminal cases: figuring out what it's going to take to get you the result you must have related to your professional license in California and your career.

Reviewing Your Criminal Case

So, we have you come in, sit down, and talk about the case. We discuss your concerns and issues related to your professional license, and then we discuss what's realistic regarding the criminal case you're charged with.

If you have committed a crime related to your professional license — in other words, something as part of your job and you're committing a crime- obviously that makes it much more difficult to save your professional license because you're doing something related to that license.

If you're doing something that does not relate to your professional license in any way, we have a stronger, more powerful argument to save that license.

So, it just depends on the circumstances of your case and what you're accused of. Sometimes, you're charged with something, and you weren't doing what you were charged with, and they've got it wrong.

You may have been doing something wrong, but you must do precisely what they claimed you did. In that circumstance, obviously, we're going to want to show the prosecutors that with good evidence and common sense—and that's where I come in to talk to them about it to try to get you the result you must have.

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