https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/enough-lawyers-although-fine-profession/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/enough-lawyers-although-fine-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-294348 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:14:26 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46668#comment-294348 I do not think so Georg. He could be more descriptive by adding that he is a retired lawyer, inactive lawyer, or unlicensed lawyer, if in fact any of these things are true. However, once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I mean, so long as we are making up rules without citation to authority, this one just makes more sense to me, especially considering the number of lawyers who go on to lead companies, teach, or countries, as here. They do not give back the legal education and training just because they are not actively licensed to practice in a particular court room, which by the way, he could be again whenever he wanted by virtue of the fact that, well, he’s a lawyer, unless he were disbarred, in which case he couldn’t practice law, as he would be a disbarred ‘lawyer.’

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/06/enough-lawyers-although-fine-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-293191 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:27:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46668#comment-293191 Doesn’t he have to possess a current law license to call himself a lawyer? More correctly, that line should be “I can say that because I used to be a lawyer,”

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