“WHAT DID SHE DO THAT in 1993 — AFTER only 4 YEARS — HER LICENSE to PRACTICE LAW WAS REVIEWED AND PUT ON INACTIVE by a DISCIPLINARY AGENCY?
What Is the ARDC? (this is NOT the Illinois Bar-where one can voluntarily be inactive) As our name implies, the ARDC is the agency of the Supreme Court of Illinois which registers attorneys and investigates complaints of misconduct filed against attorneys holding a license to practice law in Illinois.
Our principal purpose is to assist the Supreme Court to determine a lawyer’s fitness to practice law in Illinois. If a complaint is made that an attorney, licensed to practice law in Illinois, has engaged in illegal, unethical or dishonest conduct, we will investigate and, if warranted, bring formal disciplinary charges. The Supreme Court of Illinois will then ultimately decide if a lawyer should be censured (publicly rebuked), suspended (having the law license to practice either taken away for a certain period of time or placed on a probationary period) or disbarred (having the law license taken away indefinitely).”
It was not put on inactive by a disciplinary agentcy. It was inactivated at her request. In Illinois, as in most states, the ability to practice law is supervised by the Supreme Court. Maintaining your law license requires continuing education, payment of dues, what have you. It is not at all uncommon for a lawyer to request that their license be inactivated when their job doesn't require them to pracice in order to avoid all those requirements. She can reactivate her license at any time.
“No, really. Barack’s a hustler. I shouldn’t say hustler, but he’s a humper in terms of work.”
Yup bet he is. Harvard Law Grad and the woman can’t EVEN talk.
This is NOTHING. My Illinois license was similarly placed in inactive status by the ARDC when I moved to Ohio and stopped keeping my Illinois law license active. I can reactivate it by paying the active lawyer fees and by taking all required Continuing Legal Education courses, just as Michelle Obama could do.
Its funny that all Lawyers that I know that have stepped down from ACTIVE practice, have keep the bar dues paid and keep their continue education up. A very successful Lawyer that I know like a brother, has been the administrator of a multi millionaires’ trust. He was making more money off that and managing the trust and estate, that he became inactive in practicing law (court and to the public at large) but has keep the education and license active. One that pays that mnuch money to become a laywer, doesn’t just quit after all that. There is more to the story that I doubt we will ever know. Remember, we are talking Ill, and the political structure there and she was with Daley and his machine. It is just to strange that this is just now coming to light.
What Is the ARDC? (this is NOT the Illinois Bar - where one can voluntarily be inactive)
As our name implies, the ARDC is the agency of the Supreme Court of Illinois which registers attorneys and investigates complaints of misconduct filed against attorneys holding a license to practice law in Illinois.
Our principal purpose is to assist the Supreme Court to determine a lawyer’s fitness to practice law in Illinois. If a complaint is made that an attorney, licensed to practice law in Illinois, has engaged in illegal, unethical or dishonest conduct, we will investigate and, if warranted, bring formal disciplinary charges.
The Supreme Court of Illinois will then ultimately decide if a lawyer should be censured (publicly rebuked), suspended (having the law license to practice either taken away for a certain period of time or placed on a probationary period) or disbarred (having the law license taken away indefinitely).”
Ping to another Blast from the Past. Good find, Kim. Thanks so much. Bet all this information isn't archived on any other website. Bookmarked.