Posted on 08/04/2009 9:00:27 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Why did Michelle Obama give up her license to practice law in 1993?
Records listed at the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois list her status as "voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."
It further states that Michelle license is "on court ordered inactive status."
The statement has many bloggers wondering why a court would issue an order to stop Michelle Obama from practicing law, and some have even suggested the first lady faced may have been facing allegations of misconduct.
Michelle Obama, known as Michelle Robinson at the time, attended Princeton University and earned her juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. She took the bar exam in Illinois, passing it on her second try and receiving her license from the state of Illinois.
In 1988, Michelle became an associate at Sidley & Austin, a corporate law firm in her home town of Chicago. She was assigned to mentor summer associate and future husband, Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Impending Criminal Prosecution in a Public Court Room Trial which was avoided by Surrender of her License to Practice Law FOREVER in Illinois, the only State she was ever Licensd to Practice Law! Please everyone, take the time to do a GOOGLE SEARCH! Its a BIG DEAL! It only happens to Lawyers in very serious cases brought against them!
REMMBER that Bill Clinton fought hard and spent a fortune to prevent the suspension of His Law License and was given a FIVE YEAR SUSPENSION for HIS PERJURY CONVICTION! Lawyers do NOT voluntarily give up their License Five Years into their Careers! But in this case, its even more clear! Michelle Obama was Forced to Surrender Hers for Life or proceed with the Public Trial, something She obviously chose to AVOID “AT THE SUPREME COST OF LOOSING HER LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW AGAIN!” No One must be allowed to Gloss that over!
You don’t get much more well known than John F. Kennedy, Jr. According to CNN, it took him three tries to pass the bar. Congratulations on passing it the 1st time.
Thank you for this significant post on her placement ib a totally Deadend Alley for Her given Law Career Development!
Then what is apparent, that even having been placed in a Do No Harm Position, Michelle “MAABELLE” OBAMA succeeded in getting the Illinois Criminal Court System to come after her in such a way that she “VOLUNTEERED TO SURRENDER HER LAW LICENSE” and suffer the resultant Financial Loss and Professional Humiliation in order to prevent having to defend Herself in a Public Trial and possibly clearing Her Name and Saving Her Chosen Careeer!! To anyone else, this would have been certain professional Ruination, but obviosly not for the Obama’s.
And been able to Keep Their License rather than Loosing it ays alot about the Character inhabiting The White House today!And then WHY DID OBOZO SURRENDER OR ALLOW HIS LICENSE TO LAPSE?? Was it something related? or was it that he swore on his application that he never used any other name (ALIAS) on his License Application than Barack Hussein Obama? He swore he had never, but we all know that for years, he was Barry Soetoro!
I will look into it.
Again, this was not the case, she was foced to surrender or face an impending a.d certain Public Trial! She was Forced to Surrender her License “Voluntarily!” There is a wealth of Information on the Internet on this case and the writer obviously missed alot of the serious information on the situation.The major point is that the Infraction she was accused of was obviously so serious that she chose NOT to stand Trial and attempt to prove that she was Innocent:-)
Affirmative Action at Work in the Highest Levels of Chicago Politics and Cultural Circles??
Gosh! Harvard is a 96% Pass Rate and One of it’s Alleged Most brilliant Graduates Flunk The Bar! So that person must have beeen in the bottom 4% of Her HARVARD CLASSMATES, tsk,tsk! How could that be?
That was my first thought, but why “court ordered”?
Wasn’t that simple.
Someone I know says that her file at ARDC has a number on it that references to Insurance Fraud.
the “court ordered’ IS EXPLAINED IN THE ARTICLE. It does not indicate any problems,,it was the way things were done at that time.
the “court ordered’ IS EXPLAINED IN THE ARTICLE. It does not indicate any problems,,it was the way things were done at that time.
Actually, ModelBreaker in post #26 pointed out that there is more to IP law than patents. Since not enough is known to draw a solid conclusion, Michelle doing IP and marketing plus mentoring Barack strongly suggests to me that Barack was also doing IP and marketing, otherwise, he would have been mentored by someone in an area he would be working in.
Interesting! So Sidley didn’t peg OBOZO has a Legal Megagiant that might actually prove successful in Law, so they put him away for safe keeping as well? Reports are that in any cases in which he went to Court on the rare occassion, Obozo layed back and did none of the arguments or presentations before the Bench, but rather LODTW!*
* Let Others Do The Work!
That's my thinking as well. So much for constitutional scholar.
I think the WND article was incorrect in mentioning obama didn't work at Sidley Austin because everything I understood about his past is that he and Michelle met while working at the same company and that she mentored him.
Likewise! This story is starting to more and more smell like Dead fish too! They can’t keep the stories straight because nothing is built on the foundations of Truth:-)
Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
$172,200 - Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
$140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY )
$102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$102,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$90,000 - Medina , David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
$75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
$65,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
$62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$60,000 - Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
$52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
$50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
$45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$45,000 - Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
$40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE AS SISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
$36,000 - Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
$36,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
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$1,256,000.+ per year - for what?
OKAY. THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT. HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME
SORRY FOR THE CAPS. I usually don’t do that but what the hey, I had a slip.
.... Harvard Law School and couldn’t pass the bar the first time? Amusing ....
Not funny at all: Affirmative Action.
AKA perfect preparation for the pridefilled Peter Principle poster person.
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