Areas of Practice

The Law Office of Victoria Soto represents medical professionals in matters before the following entities:

• Texas Medical Board
• Texas Physician Assistant Board
• Texas Board of Nursing
• Texas Dental Board
• Texas State Board of Psychologists
• Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
• Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners
• Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners
• Texas State Department of Health Services
• Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
• Texas Department of Public Safety
• Texas Department of Insurance
• Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH)
• Texas Medical Foundation
• Texas Optometry Board
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• Texas Workerscomp Agency

Our objective is to provide effective representation of medical professionals throughout all phases of the complaint process:

• Investigatory Phase
• Disciplinary Phase
• License Revocation
• License Probation
• Agreed Order Violations
• Agreed Order Modifications & Terminations
• Temporary Suspension & Restriction Hearings
• Informal Settlement Conferences
• Show Compliance Disciplinary Proceedings
• State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH)

Examples of types of violations brought before the Board for disciplinary action includes:

• Alcohol or drug use
• Conviction of a felony/crime of moral turpitude
• Disciplined by military/another state
• Disciplined by peers
• Failure to comply with the request for information/subpoena
• Failure to obtain/document CME (continuing medical education)
• Failure to properly supervise/delegate
• Falling below the standard of care in the treatment or lack thereof toward patients
• Writing false prescriptions
• Providing false statements to the Board
• Inappropriate relations with patients
• Insufficient medical/drug records
• Mental or physical impairment
• Patient abandonment/failure to communicate with patient
• Practice inconsistent with public health and welfare
• Knowingly prescribing or dispensing drugs to a drug abuser
• Prescribing non-therapeutically lead to patients and/or family members and failing to document those prescriptions
• Unprofessional conduct
• Violating State or federal law in their practice
• Violation of a Board Order

Medical Peer Review:

• Representation and mediation of practice physicians and medical peer review hearings