The whole point of "Voluntary Surrender," from the surrendering attorney's point of view is that the details behind the Bar asking one to voluntarily surrender the credential are forever sealed from prying eyes.
Yes, Virginia, there are those attorneys who allow their credential to lapse as they go onto bigger and better things (one hopes). This is most certainly not, NOT I assure thee, the case in the Obama legal family.
Instead of forcing me to take time away from refurbishing my lobster traps, kindly direct your next inquiry on the subject of "Voluntary Surrender" to a member of the Bar in your state (who is not a registered Democrat).
BTW, a primary source of candidates for both elected and appointed public office is the enormous pool of failed and always growing pool of small-time, small-town attorneys.
Barack Hussein Obama - Voluntarily retired and not authorized to practice law
Michelle Obama - Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law
So what is the difference between “retired” and “inactive”? WND discussed in detail back in 2009
http://www.wnd.com/2009/08/105998/
“In 2005, after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he changed his status to inactive as well [there is a screen shot].”
“By 2005, which is several years later than his wife, the rule had changed such that you no longer had to file a petition that was such a pain for the court,” Grogan explained. “Instead, the court had changed it to two types of status: inactive or retired. Either situation involves merely sending a letter to us basically saying, ‘I want to transfer to inactive status.’”
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“Barack Obama remained listed as inactive until he retired this year.[2009]”
““If you are currently inactive and want to get back in, all you have to do is send us a letter and pay the current balance of your registration,” Grogan said. “However, if you’re retired and want to come back in, you have to pay the full registration fee for the years you were out. I don’t think Obama’s going to come back to Chicago to practice, you know what I mean?””
Other websites say pretty much the same thing.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp
“Barack Obama did not “surrender” his law license. Like Michelle, Barack Obama had no need for an active law license for the work in which he was engaged, so in February 2007 (after announcing his candidacy for the presidency) he chose to have his law license placed on “voluntarily inactive” status, and after becoming president he opted to change his status to “voluntarily retired.” Neither of the Obamas was irrevocably stripped of their law licenses through the action of “surrendering” them.
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/the-obamas-law-licenses/
The Obamas haven’t said exactly what prompted them to change the status of their licenses. But Grogan said that it was fairly common for lawyers who didn’t intend to continue practicing law to go on inactive status. It was actually one of the reasons, he said, that the rule was changed so that lawyers wanting to switch to inactive status no longer had to petition the Illinois Supreme Court to do so. In 2011, more than 12 percent of the state’s 87,943 registered attorneys were on inactive status (see Chart 2), according to the ARDC’s annual report for that year.
This is the kind of documentation I originally asked for.