http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/barack-michelle-gave-up law license/
Given*how arduous it is to acquire a law license, like other professionals (such as physicians), most attorneys renew their license even when they are retired from active legal work. License renewal is easy and simple: you pay a fee and, in some states, take a few units of continuing legal education. Letting your license lapse, however, means that you’d have to re-take the bar exam to get re-admitted.
Lawyers let their license lapse for very compelling reasons, often to avoid or escape censure or outright criminal charges. As an example, Bill Clinton kept active his law license even when he became president.*In 2000 the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Committee on Professional Conduct called for Clinton’s disbarment, saying he lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In January 2001 Clinton reached an agreement under which he was ordered to pay $25,000 in fines to Arkansas state’s bar officials and his Arkansas law license was suspended for five years. The agreement came on the condition that Whitewater prosecutors would not pursue federal perjury charges against him. Clinton was suspended by the Supreme Court in October 2001, and, facing disbarment from that court, Clinton resigned from the Supreme Court bar in November.
So it is most curious that Barack and Michelle Obama both gave up their law licenses.
Michelle Obama*attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude with a B.A. in Sociology and African-American Studies*in 1985. She then attended Harvard Law School and earned a J.D. in 1988 before returning to her hometown Chicago*to work*at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met and was assigned to mentor*a summer associate named Barack. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley as his Assistant and as Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1996, she became, first,*the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago; then,*Vice President for Community and External Affairs.
According to bloggers Johnny Alamo and*James4America, Michelle “voluntarily” gave up her law license in 1993, just five years after she got the license;*Barack “voluntarily retired” from law practice in 2007. The left-leaning*Snopes.com denies that Michelle had “voluntarily surrendered” her law license, and insists both Michelle and Barack had merely put their law license on “inactive” status. Snopes, however, does not explain what’s the difference between Michelle’s “voluntarily inactive” and Barack’s “voluntarily retired.”
Nor does Snopes inform its readers that Michelle Obama was ordered by the court*to put her law license on inactive status. An earlier version of the ARDC webpage on her*(
https://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=847688734) said this*about Michelle: “No malpractice report required as attorney is on court ordered inactive status.” Here’s a screen shot of the*web*page*at the time of*Chelsea Shilling’s WorldNetDaily article of August 4, 2009:
By the time I accessed the same webpage yesterday, September 15, 2010, the sentence “No malpractice report required as attorney is on court ordered inactive status” had disappeared.*A day later, that webpage (
https://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=847688734) is scrubbed of all information on Michelle Obama. See my update, “Illinois Supreme Court Coverup For Obamas.”
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