I happen to know there is currently in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City Indiana an inmate who is a licensed physician, convicted of murder when he chased the two burglars who entered his home and terrorized his family into the street and killed them.
This physician still has an active medical license and still sees patients, writes prescriptions, etc all from inside the prison. And he renews his medical license every two years, too. Something else odd; while the Search feature brings up the names, any searches for the Disciplinary actions ends quickly. As in, Too Quickly. We were asked if Barack and Michelle Obama surrendered their law licenses to avoid ethics charges?
This is a very old internet rumor that goes back to at least It has been debunked by Factcheck. This is legit. Talk about irony. Big surprise. Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and U. He surrendered his license back in in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application.
A court official confirms that no public disciplinary proceeding has ever been brought against either of them, contrary to a false Internet rumor. By voluntarily inactivating their licenses, they avoid a requirement to take continuing education classes and pay hundreds of dollars in annual fees. Both could practice law again if they chose to do so.
Left vs. Right Bias: How we rate the bias of media sources. Email Address. So you say…. What would you conclude is a valid reason…? The fact check is looking at the claim that they did it to avoid ethics charges. Next, yes it costs money and you have to go for continuing education to maintain your license and you have to pay state bar fees, maintain malpractice insurance etc. Many lawyers do this when not practicing. But these are facts, and obviously facts elude the other 2 commenters. Mike, Michelle was licensed in She surrendered her license in That was long before any thought of winning an election.
In order to keep abreast and current the license must be renewed by continuing education and payments to the Bar Association, periodically. Being an active status lawyer costs more money see Rule than being inactive, and it requires one to do Continuing Legal Education classes Rule , unless one is in certain jobs for which the CLE requirements are waived.
The difference in bar fees, for instance, is why I myself was inactive in While we cannot explain the search engine lag time, we did not experience anything like it during our own tests, suggesting that might be less to do with the engine and more to do with the person conducting the search to begin with. Search for:. English April 6, 0. It was actually one of the reasons, he said, that the rule was changed so that lawyers wanting to switch to inactive status no longer had to petition the Illinois Supreme Court to do so.
As previously mentioned, before , an Illinois Supreme Court rule required active lawyers who wanted to change their registration status to do so by petitioning the court.
And the court granted the request the following month, Grogan said. Grogan said claims that Michelle Obama went on inactive status to avoid disbarment are simply false. And the Obamas could return to practicing law if they decide to, Grogan said. President Obama would have to submit a written or online notification stating that he intended to return to active status.
And he would have to pay the registration fee for each year that he was retired. The process for Michelle Obama would be different, Grogan said, because she changed her status under old Supreme Court Rule She would have to once again file a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court requesting to be transferred back to active status.
But unlike President Obama, she would only have to pay the registration for the year that she requested to return to active status. Senate in , Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from to He was a Senior Lecturer from to , during which time he taught three courses per year.
Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status.
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