MALPRACTICE INSURANCE
Q: Do I need to carry malpractice insurance?
A: No, you do not. Supreme Court Rule 756(e) requires that, as part of the annual registration process, you must report whether you carry malpractice coverage and, if so, the dates of coverage for the policy. Rule 756(g) provides that a lawyer will be deemed not registered for the year if the lawyer has failed to provide malpractice insurance information as required by Rule 756(e).
https://www.iardc.org/registration/reg_faqs.html
Thanks.
Do you have any idea why the IL bar status on the report would be “voluntarily inactive” while the malpractice section says “by court order?” Are insurers able to ‘read between the lines?’
I tend to think Red’s thinking is on target, but the MO record is vague and contradictory.
Give me a choice between being a practicing lawyer, working like a dog and billing by the hour, and being the wife of a US Senator who’s handed a seat on the board of a prestigious university for several hundred grand a year. Guess which I’m gonna take?
It seems highly unusual, tho, for a young woman to inactivate her bar membership. With that board pay, she can surely afford a couple hundred dollars a year for bar dues, even if she’s not going to practice law.
I would imagine after X years inactive, one has to go through the admissions process, or a variation of it, all over again. Not that MO will spend one day of her life actually practicing law.
Does anyone remember what Slick Willie did after his 5 year suspension ended? Did he reapply to be a member of the bar? If so, since it was a disciplinary action, did he have to do anything beyond filling out paper work?