An image shared on Facebook more than 4,600 times claims former first lady Michelle Obama surrendered her license to practice law for committing insurance fraud. Obama has not been the subject of attorney disciplinary action. She voluntarily changed her law license status to “inactive.”
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I expect that around 1993 Michelle took employement where she wasn't actively practicing law and thus approrpriately registered herself as inactive. Note that I …
Jun 14, 2012 · 2 Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993. after a Federal Judge gave her the choice between surrendering her …
Oct 20, 2008 · Instead of having the loss or suspension of her license on record, she agreed to become Inactive until a court allows her to practice. That is a serious issue since courts bend over backwards to allow us lawyers to keep our licenses. So, what happened in 1993 in Illinois that she wants to hide? Why has this not been reported in the media?
Jul 03, 2020 · “Michelle Obama holds a valid law license in Illinois,” Steven Splitt, a spokesperson for the IARDC, told the Daily Caller in an email. “She has never been disciplined or the subject of a disciplinary proceeding in Illinois, and she was never required to ‘surrender’ her law license.
Jan 18, 2022 · Why did Michelle Obama give up her license to practice law in 1993? Records 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."
He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996.
The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching.
An image shared on Facebook more than 4,600 times claims former first lady Michelle Obama surrendered her license to practice law for committing insurance fraud.
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Barack and Michelle Obama surrendered their law licenses to avoid pending disciplinary actions.
Several similar items have been circulated during or since the 2008 U.S.
The annual registration fee for an inactive status attorney shall be $105.
He didn’t include the line above because he’s a manipulator and done so to favor his side.
But as Mark Twain so wryly noted,, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Seems the new right is VERY aware of this.
None of the six media you listed are citations. A citation leads directly to the proof you have in mind. It is either a direct link in the case of Web citations, or a reference with page number if to a print source.
Rule 770 NEVER was used for just simply going inactive. It does allow an attorney to VOLUNTARILY go inactive when there is some review of disciplinary action going on. Under Rule 770, you can go inactive voluntarily, but it is court mandated, and you cannot practice law. To go inactive just because you no longer want to practice, Rule 756 is used.
In a disciplinary branch if you are court ordered to go into inactive status which rule 770 was used for displine (disbarrment) as sources say, then no malpractice report is required, hence, it shows NONE.