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Flashback: Rudy Giuliani Is Not Practicing Law, And Billing Him As Trump’s Attorney Degrades The Value Of A Law License
abovethelaw.com ^ | Oct 2, 2019 | JONATHAN WOLF

Posted on 11/18/2020 2:27:35 PM PST by lwd

Rudy Giuliani is an exaggerated cartoon metaphor for millennials’ slow awaking about the fallibility and tragic decline of their parents. He graduated from law school in 1968, went on to serve as a federal prosecutor, and eventually became mayor of New York. When 9/11 happened, we were all scared and confused, and Rudy stood up there and gave us some confidence in the future. He looked like a leader.

And then, as his star faded, there came a decade of irrelevance. His former prowess battered, but his pride intact, he reached for the spotlight with one final, self-destructive act: enthralling himself to Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani has become a national embarrassment, not to mention a black mark on the entire legal profession.

Rudy Giuliani is billed as Donald Trump’s private lawyer. And sure, he has a law license. But not everything everyone who has a law license does is lawyering. I went duck hunting with my dad last weekend, and nobody said I was acting as his personal lawyer by going on a duck hunt with him. But they might as well have, because that is pretty much what almost everyone in the media is doing with Rudy Giuliani.

Let’s look at the ABA’s draft model definition of the practice of law. It says:

(1) The ‘practice of law’ is the application of legal principles and judgment with regard to the circumstances or objectives of a person that require the knowledge and skill of a person trained in the law.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: defamation
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This lawyer/propagandist claimed a year ago that Rudy wasn't a lawyer anymore. Doesn't Rudy know a pretty good defamation lawyer in GA?

Articles author's email is jon_wolf@hotmail.com

1 posted on 11/18/2020 2:27:35 PM PST by lwd
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To: lwd

They’re using threats of sanctions and having people disbarred who represent Trump. This is just more of the same.


2 posted on 11/18/2020 2:34:13 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: lwd

Nah, Rudy Giuliani, who the heck is he?

He only effectively

- shut down the mafia by implementing the RCO statute and

- cleaned up NYC which no one else would do, making it one of the best and safest cites in the world.

Of course those would be the reasons the Left would hate him - a guy that actually made life substantially better in the U.S.

How I hate the delusional lying Left.


3 posted on 11/18/2020 2:36:02 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: lwd

he reached for the spotlight with one final, self-destructive act: enthralling himself to Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani has become a national embarrassment,..

Thanks for the email.

He won’t forget this Paesano’s email that fast.

I’ll take 5 minutes to calm down first.

Enthralling...that must mean loyalty in dem terms

When NOBODY believed Trump had a chance, we’re supposed to believe that Rudy KNEW he would win and there would be a big windfall and prestige.

Maybe he knew Trump better than I thought and knew what he was about...kudos to him for seeing it way before most of us did.

If ANYTHING, he put his reputation on the line early so loyally supporting Trump and not wavering at all

This pr.ck #### writer


4 posted on 11/18/2020 2:36:19 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: lwd

Silly article from a stupid source. Idiotic and nonsensical to the max.


5 posted on 11/18/2020 2:36:22 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: lwd

I saw where he didnt pay his yearly fee. Perhaps that is what was referenced.

I dont know the details of the fee issue

He is at the age where he could retire his license but he has chosen not to do that...so he has to pay a yearly fee.
You cant practice law if you havent paid the fee . His State likely also requires CLE classes over a certain time frame

His state may also allow him to go on hiatus where you pay a reduced fee, keep your license, and you dont take CLE classes.


6 posted on 11/18/2020 2:37:15 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: lwd
You're a lawyer for life....same as a doctor, engineer, nurse....unless they pull your license for some reason.

However, some states now require mandatory education to be registered to practice.

7 posted on 11/18/2020 2:37:18 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Jim W N

By breaking down the Five Families Giuliani also broke the power of labor unions which meant less graft for politicians. That is why the left hated him so much.


8 posted on 11/18/2020 2:38:08 PM PST by LukeL
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To: RummyChick

btw, if you are on a hiatus status you can’t practice law but you are still a lawyer


9 posted on 11/18/2020 2:39:17 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: lwd

Jon Wolf must think that Rudy is a real-life Romney Wordsworth (old reference).


10 posted on 11/18/2020 2:42:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: lwd

He and the rest of President Trump’s legal team are threats to them, so of course they have to go after them any way they can. It’s all they have left.


11 posted on 11/18/2020 2:43:35 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Sacajaweau

Your license will be pulled after a certain time if you dont pay the fee in most states.

Also, I think I have one point wrong. There is likely some kind of time frame by which you can be an active lawyer, practice law, and have an unpaid fee.

If it is due Oct 1 and it is Oct 31 and you haven’t paid your fee you might still be able to practice. Not really sure on that point. His state may require an act of suspension rather than an automatic inability to practice law. this would make more sense.


12 posted on 11/18/2020 2:45:22 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

this should have been on Wednesday at the Global Security Forum where Trump National Security Adviser, Robert O’Brien, made headlines worldwide this week by agreeing Biden could win:

Global Security Forum Agenda (Soufan Center)
(scroll down) Day 3 Wednesday, 18 November
Theme: The impact of disinformation & the evolving nature of the global information environment
10 a.m. EST: Fireside Chat “Foreign interference and election meddline” with Director ***CHRISTOPHER C. KREBS, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and moderated by Kevin Baron, Executive, Defense One.
https://globalsecurityforum.com/agenda/

THE SUBSTITUTE - BRENNAN:

3h05m15s to 3h33m57s: NEXT: Fireside Chat: Foreign interferene and Election, John Brennan, former director, CIA with Kevin Baron, Executive Editor, Defense One

Baron, Defense One(paraphrasing): second SUBSTITUTE analyst, John Brennan, because of Krebs’ firing last night. Baron: initial reaction re firing, echoes of Watergate, silence any opposition.

VIDEO: 3:58:04: Soufan Center: Global Security Forum 16-19 November
Day 3
https://globalsecurityforum.com/#

will let others critique what Brennan had to say!


13 posted on 11/18/2020 2:45:29 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: lwd
This distinguished author and lawyer is:

a litigation associate at a midsize, full-service Minnesota firm. He also teaches as an adjunct writing professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law

In other words he is an associate (one step above a paralegal) at a dime a dozen law firm he is too embarrassed to mention and supposedly teaches at a second tier law school that doesn't list him as an adjunct professor.

14 posted on 11/18/2020 2:46:34 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: lwd

I lost 10 IQ points just reading this level of ignorant stupidity.


15 posted on 11/18/2020 2:46:43 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards. )
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To: LukeL

I loathe and despise the unions almost as much as I loathe and despise the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government (which continues to unconstitutionally protect unions further screwing up our economy and standard of living).


16 posted on 11/18/2020 2:47:35 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: dp0622

I sent him a love letter and he had the audacity to double down. Said it article is “accurate” and sent me some yahoo bs article ragging on Rudy’s performance.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania-attorney-general-says-rudy-185023236.html


17 posted on 11/18/2020 2:51:13 PM PST by lwd
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To: RummyChick

I’m sure he’s practiced way too long to be having to take CLE’s if required in NY.


18 posted on 11/18/2020 2:54:00 PM PST by lwd
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To: RummyChick
Giuliani is licensed in NYS....same State as my professional license.

I have to register every 3 years to practice my profession and pay the fee and that's no big deal. They send you the form if requested or you can do it on line.

19 posted on 11/18/2020 2:54:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: MAGAthon

I can only imagine what lies he’s spewing. Snake.


20 posted on 11/18/2020 2:56:53 PM PST by lwd
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