Comments on: Stephen Glass: a right to practice law? https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/stephen-glass-a-right-to-practice-law/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: January 3 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/stephen-glass-a-right-to-practice-law/comment-page-1/#comment-140170 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:18:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26210#comment-140170 […] Debatable premise of Joe Nocera analysis on Stephen Glass case: bar admission turn-down = “rest of his life … destroyed” [NYT, Howard Wasserman/Prawfs, earlier] […]

]]> By: John Rohan https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/stephen-glass-a-right-to-practice-law/comment-page-1/#comment-139528 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:20:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26210#comment-139528 Back in 1998, the Illinois bar refused to grant Matthew Hale a law license, based on the fact that he was a white supremacist. In 2005, he was sent to prison for soliciting someone to kill a judge. You could say they made the right call in that case, or alternately you could also say that if had been allowed to pursue his career as a lawyer, he wouldn’t have taken a turn for the criminal. There are a lot of possibilities here.

]]> By: gitarcarver https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/stephen-glass-a-right-to-practice-law/comment-page-1/#comment-139347 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:13:26 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26210#comment-139347 Glass should simply argue he is a pathological liar, get a psychologist to certify the diagnosis, and then the bar would be forced to admit him under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Problem solved.

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