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What happened to Michelle Obama's law license ?
WorldNetDaily ^ | August 4, 2009 | Chelsea Schilling

Posted on 08/04/2009 9:00:27 PM PDT by RobinMasters

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1 posted on 08/04/2009 9:00:27 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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It’s the ‘White House Chicago Way’.


2 posted on 08/04/2009 9:02:16 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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I believe she quit paying the fee. I don’t think it’s more than that but I could be wrong.


3 posted on 08/04/2009 9:04:16 PM PDT by bergmeid
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You are right. You are wrong.


4 posted on 08/04/2009 9:05:13 PM PDT by Crawdad (If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck.)
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To: bergmeid

This has been discussed so many times on FR. And it is only now that WND finds it?

The info should look different if she had quit paying her fee.

Look at Obama’s info. He is no longer an attorney.


5 posted on 08/04/2009 9:09:14 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Crawdad
You are right. You are wrong.

Because...?

6 posted on 08/04/2009 9:09:23 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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Maybe she didn't have time to complete her required CLEs. That's Continuing Legal Education courses. You must maintain a certain number of hours per year to keep your license active.
7 posted on 08/04/2009 9:10:06 PM PDT by adgirl
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To: bergmeid

You go through grueling law school, take the bar twice, and then only practice for four years? Right.


8 posted on 08/04/2009 9:13:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Why did Michelle Obama give up her license to practice law in 1993?
Incompetence
9 posted on 08/04/2009 9:15:07 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket it's tough guys who lead the survivors.)
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Bizarre article. I wasted my time reading the entire thing and it seems like much ado about nothing.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 9:15:45 PM PDT by FreepShop1
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I read the entire article. I learned that a) Michelle Obama wasn’t pretty in college, either and b) there is no point to the article.


11 posted on 08/04/2009 9:18:28 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The revolution IS being televised.)
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The Harvard graduate who eventually got her law license and first job at Sidley Austin was working on intellectual property and marketing at the time she met and mentored Obama. What this means is that in her first job out of Harvard Law School, she was assigned to the dead end, do no damage area of intellectual property and marketing. Because she was mentoring Obama, he too must have been assigned the same dead end, do no harm area.

The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.

Therefore, neither could have ever developed an expertise in matters of intellectual property law.

12 posted on 08/04/2009 9:19:47 PM PDT by fso301
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Harvard Law School and couldn't pass the bar the first time? Amusing.
13 posted on 08/04/2009 9:26:27 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I thought the 1st wookie was as brilliant as her husband. A Harvard law degree and she fails the Illinois bar the first time? That should tell you something about her intellectual and legal abilities right there.

I went to a non-Ivy law school (actually a good Jesuit institution) and passed the MI bar on the 1st try. The bar exam is 2 months of putting your life on hold.


14 posted on 08/04/2009 9:27:43 PM PDT by Feasor13
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Amusing because she took the spot of someone at Harvard Law who would have passed the bar exam on the first try.


15 posted on 08/04/2009 9:29:40 PM PDT by Feasor13
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"You go through grueling law school, take the bar twice, and then only practice for four years? Right."

She's not the first I've seen do that. The grind and pressure for billable hours makes many just want to walk away from it. It can be a lot of work for not a whole lot of money.

16 posted on 08/04/2009 9:30:34 PM PDT by DaGman
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She took the bar exam in Illinois, passing it on her second try...

In 1989, Illinois has a bar pass rate of 80% , and this including all sorts of schools not so august as Harvard Law, where the overall bar passage rate is 96% .

17 posted on 08/04/2009 9:32:12 PM PDT by Plutarch
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The reason I say intellectual property was a dead end, do no harm role is because the US Patent & Trademark Office requires that persons coming before it must have passed the Patent Bar exam and the only way to take the Patent Bar is to have an approved technical degree. Neither Michelle nor Barack had anything close to a technical degree.

General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/grb.pdf

With special attention to Section III, pp. 4-9 of this document.

III. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE EXAMINATION

An applicant applying for the examination must demonstrate that he or she possesses the scientific and technical training necessary to provide valuable service to patent applicants. Applicants bear the burden of showing the requisite scientific and technical training. To be admitted to the examination, each applicant must demonstrate possession of the required scientific and technical training.

18 posted on 08/04/2009 9:34:26 PM PDT by thecodont
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Some folks are cut out to be attorneys and others are not. Depends on how much mental punishment you are willing to take. Law school teaches you the subjects and how to pass the bar but even after you graduate you are forced to spend about a grand on a bar review to pass the test. And law school does not teach you how to actually practice law.

I went into prosecution after a year being a scrub at a firm for about a year, and I learned more about being an attorney sending bad guys to prison, committing crazies civilly and terminating the parental rights of bad parents than I ever did in private practice. Now I’m a private attorney again and actually know something about the practice of law and it’s like night and day.


19 posted on 08/04/2009 9:35:54 PM PDT by Feasor13
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Can we stop it with the idiotic conspiracy theories? They make Republicans look bad and will help Obama get re-elected. I’m an attorney. Keeping your license is a pain the ass — you have to take 2 dozen useless classes every two years (”Continuing Legal Education”) and pay a steep fee. So lawyers who stop practicing law let their license lapse. That’s what Michelle Obama did. No story. Move along.


20 posted on 08/04/2009 9:39:36 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew (Hell exists, it is real. It's a quiet green meadow populated entirely by Arab goat herders.)
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