Can a DUI or DWI affect your professional license or certifications? Christopher Combs and Steven Waterkotte of Combs Waterkotte discuss what can happen if you hold professional licenses or certifications and are charged with a DWI/DUI.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: How does a DUI affect professional licenses or certifications?
Steve Waterkotte: Many of the professional licensing agencies have mandatory reporting. Meaning, if you’re arrested, you have to report it to whatever agency oversees you. Doctors have theirs, us lawyers have one. I always say the higher you go up in society and professionally, the backgrounds get a little bit more thorough.
We’re able to typically avoid issues. Again, once you go beyond first offenses, it can get a little trickier. But many of them have annual reporting requirements or background checks that they will have to [give] notice that they were arrested or they have a pending case.
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