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I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about “Barry.” Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn’t even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn’t have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).
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To be (a lawyer) or not to be...
 
This blogger said "So I did, and here's the results from the ARDC Website: She "voluntarily surrendered" her license in 1993".

But I don't see "voluntarily surrendered" on the ARDC website unless I overlook it. but all I see is "voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

As for Michelle Obama's Ill. license, it says "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law". Is there difference between inactive and surrendered? Inactive means you just don't practice it anymore, is that right?

If she is not authorized to practice law, does that mean she does not have a license anymore?
 
Very interesting. :hmm:
 
Scary, too. This is what happens when you have political correctness that does the thinking for you.
 
I can clear this up. When you notify the bar that you take "inactive status," you are not practicing law during this time. Typically, this is what moms do (like me for a while). You are not authorized to practice law during the time that you're inactive. It just means that you're not practicing now. The reason for being "inactive" is that you don't have to take expensive bar dues (inactive members pay a smaller amount) or take expensive continuing legal education courses when you're not earning money by practicing law. When you want to practice law, you write a letter to the bar saying that you want to activate your status and you pay the full amount of bar dues. Then, you're authorized to practice law again. People who have jobs that don't require a JD may also take inactive status. It doesn't mean that you can't ever practice law again or that you have to take the bar again. That's it!
 
sallylou said:
I can clear this up. When you notify the bar that you take "inactive status," you are not practicing law during this time. Typically, this is what moms do (like me for a while). You are not authorized to practice law during the time that you're inactive. It just means that you're not practicing now. The reason for being "inactive" is that you don't have to take expensive bar dues (inactive members pay a smaller amount) or take expensive continuing legal education courses when you're not earning money by practicing law. When you want to practice law, you write a letter to the bar saying that you want to activate your status and you pay the full amount of bar dues. Then, you're authorized to practice law again. People who have jobs that don't require a JD may also take inactive status. It doesn't mean that you can't ever practice law again or that you have to take the bar again. That's it!
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:ty: for the explanation. Makes perfect sense.

That's how I understood the explanation at the link also.

I think the confusion was about Michelle Obama's status. Is she "inactive" or "surrendered?" Also, when did she become inactive or surrendered, in relation to her previous employment? There seems to be a dispute about which action she took.
 
I assumed the same with the inactive status......I do the same thing at my gym to avoid the $200/month dues when I am traveling.....Like starting tomorrow. But the other questions still remain.......
 
Barbaro said:
This blogger said "So I did, and here's the results from the ARDC Website: She "voluntarily surrendered" her license in 1993".

But I don't see "voluntarily surrendered" on the ARDC website unless I overlook it. but all I see is "voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

As for Michelle Obama's Ill. license, it says "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law". Is there difference between inactive and surrendered? Inactive means you just don't practice it anymore, is that right?

If she is not authorized to practice law, does that mean she does not have a license anymore?
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No. It simply means that her license is "in retirement."
 
kokonut said:
Yeahhh...
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I've never heard of "surrender." If you're suspended, the bar may take your card that proves that you're a licensed attorney during the suspension. I suppose that the bar definitely takes your card back if you're disbarred. I forgot to mention that you send in your bar card when you become "inactive" and they send you a card that says "inactive" on it.

BTW, the most common reason that attorneys are disciplined is that they take case and then do not call the client back.
 
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sallylou said:
BTW, the most common reason that attorneys are disciplined is that they taking a case and then do not call the client back.
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This is true.....My former tax atty has a new job now. Can't practice law. It cost me about $5,000 to the IRS when he wasn't returning their calls. Told me they were "working on it". Hope to see that money again through the civil process. He was with a top firm too.
 
Since when did hearsay become gospel? "My friend told me..."

LOL, this is complete tosh.

If that "highest tenured faculty member" at Chicago wants to write up an Op-Ed expressing HIS OWN view, then I might begin to listen, but I'm not going to take some lackey's third party story and believe a word of it at face value.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Since when did hearsay become gospel? "My friend told me..."

LOL, this is complete tosh.

If that "highest tenured faculty member" at Chicago wants to write up an Op-Ed expressing HIS OWN view, then I might begin to listen, but I'm not going to take some lackey's third party story and believe a word of it at face value.
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That's why I checked the source.

Here is what it says:

https://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=364982724

https://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=79500258
 
The issue wasn't about whether they can practice law or not. Or whether they have a license. That was known a long time ago. Issue was how Obama did in school and how people treated him.

Busted?

A little quick on the quibble trigger there.
 
busted
 
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