In the right column, we've got Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day swearing and gesticulating over his show time getting cut down to 1 minute.
In the middle column, it's Senate candidate/lawprof Elizabeth Warren:
DOES ELIZABETH WARREN HAVE A LAW LICENSE PROBLEM?If you keep scrolling, beyond my screen grab, there's also:
... On defensive again over heritage claimAnd a picture of a stink bug...
... "Feds brace for historic stink bug outbreak..."
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As a professional professor, what is the rule on law professors, bar memberships, and brief writing?
The Feds ARE the historic stink bug outbreak....
If she has won cases in MA courts, but is not admitted to the bar in MA courts, are those wins now tossed out on a technicality?
(IANAL).
Not surprised that she wouldn't take the time to become admitted. Rules are for the Little People.
The Fauxcahontas thing was great, but was getting a little stale.
Catching Ms. Consumer Protection on a violation of the principal consumer-protection rule governing her profession is absolutely hilarious.
The Fauxcahontas thing was great, but was getting a little stale.
Don't forget Taxegewea, The Loathsome Dove, and Little WHITE Dove.
I just like funny names.
Practicing law or medicine without being licensed is a crime. It has to be prosecuted. And theDems in Kennedyland protect their own.
I suspect that in her mind the entitlement belonging to a Cherokee woman Harvard Professor with tenure lead her to ignore mere laws which are never applied to the cultures icons.
So the ultra privileged Warren evolved into a lawless person. That alone is qualification for the Kennedy Seat in the Senate.
MadisonMan said...
If she has won cases in MA courts, but is not admitted to the bar in MA courts, are those wins now tossed out on a technicality?
not clear on the MA suits issue, because State fillings aren't in the big internet databases. The fingerprints thus far are Federal suits, where she represented herself as an attorney, which she may not be any longer and as having a law office in Cambridge (her Harvard addy)
apparently she isn't licensed to practice law anywhere now, but signed briefs, and billed clients.
She was licensed in Texas, but no longer
She was licensed in NJ, but no longer.
details are just coming out.
pops more corn...
So, historic stinks bugs will be breaking out.
It's an Obama kind of legacy.
The headline under the Warren picture should have been How Big is Elizabeth Warren's Law License Problem?
It would have fit the picture better.
Poor Billie Joe Armstrong - the original "American Idiot" - going into treatment for drugs, but not stupidity?
Oh well.
I slammed him on my old blog but, unfortunately, can't even find a cache'd version of the post.
I also slammed your use of Whole Foods, too many times to mention, and that drilling seems to be warranted as well.
Still nothing on that "Crack Was Right" tag, huh?
Oh, I get it. The theme is things doing what they do.
1) Rocker swears, and smashes guitar.
2) Sting bug stink.s
3) Obama agrees with Islamic nutcase.
4) Michelle talks racism.
5) Gore confuses weather with climate.
6) CBO points out important facts that everyone ignores.
Etc., etc.
I don't think anything on there is actually new.
Althouse forgot the grand gesticulations by John Fox, head coach of the Denver Broncos.
"As a professional professor, what is the rule on law professors, bar memberships, and brief writing?"
DId you read the analysis at the link? As a professor, I say: Do the readings.
EMD said...
The Fauxcahontas thing was great, but was getting a little stale.
Don't forget Taxegewea, The Loathsome Dove, and Little WHITE Dove.
I just like funny names.
Don't forget Lieawatha.
Don't forget Lieawatha.
I knew I missed one.
Having done the reading, all I can say is "Confusing."
Having done the reading, all I can say is "Confusing."
Not only did Warren avoid the $220-$300 per year Mass BBO registration fee -- just like with the option to "check the box" on the Mass income tax return to pay the higher rate --- she once again failed to "check the box" for the $51.00 "voluntary access to justice fee".
NOTE:The Supreme Judicial Court amended Rule 4:03 (1)(a) and (b) effective September 1, 2010 to add a voluntary annual access to justice fee of fifty-one dollars ($51.00) to attorneys' registration fees. The additional fee will be added to the fees shown below when attorneys receive their annual registration statement. Attorneys will be given the choice to opt out of the voluntary fee when they complete their annual registrations.
love the "thumbs up" comparison between Romney and Gore also
As well as the Michelle talks slavery next to the picture of the fight at the apple dorms in china
Also, Spreading Bull.
EMD said...
The Fauxcahontas thing was great, but was getting a little stale.
Don't forget Taxegewea, The Loathsome Dove, and Little WHITE Dove.
I think Lieawatha is the best name for her.
Comparing Warren to the stink bugs is downright mean to the stink bugs.
Lizzie has a credibility problem.
EMD said...
The Fauxcahontas thing was great, but was getting a little stale.
Don't forget Taxegewea, The Loathsome Dove, and Little WHITE Dove.
And Crockagawea.
After all her advocacy for more business regulations and downplaying the costs they impose, will Warren have the temerity to argue the regulations governing attorney registration in Massachusetts would have been a needless burden for her to comply with?
Green Day's show time was not "cut" to one minute as has been widely reported, it simply dwindled down to one minute, and Billie Joe decided to pitch a fit.
Calling Prof Warren "clever" names doesn't do much to draw attention to the problem, and it's kinda juvenile.
If you disagree, you're really kind of a poopyhead.
DId you read the analysis at the link? As a professor, I say: Do the readings.
Of course I read the link. But Prof. Jacobson is ranked ever so much lower on the list of LawProfs. Of course, by that reasoning I should really be asking Prof. Reynolds. Better yet, someone who's actually a member of the MA Bar.
kind of a poopyhead.
Not clever. You can do better.
Elizabeth Warren is a very effective speaker. At the convention she had this weird grandmotherly, Southern-like, preacherly earnestness that I can see will be very appealing to some. If you didn't see the speech, you might want to youube it.
Calling Prof Warren "clever" names doesn't do much to draw attention to the problem,
Your mistake is in thinking that's the intent.
and it's kinda juvenile.
And fun! You forgot fun, and that's the purpose.
If you disagree, you're really kind of a poopyhead.
A B+ for intent and concept, but a D- for execution. Try again! You're almost there.
Green Day?
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/elizabeth-warrens-law-license-problem/
A reading is presented of the relevant statutes. This is an emerging story because it is not clear of the extent of Warren's representation of private clients or the amount of money her Massachusetts business raked in. If she was still licensed in any state when she ran her private legal business (she was once licensed in Texas and New Jersey) - and if she paid taxes on income from her private business to any state.
Not only the Cornell Prof's take on the matter is worth a read, but several commentors. They seem to bear out that Warren DID NOT:
1. Have the legal authorization to open a business office in Massachusetts for the practice of law.
2. She would be allowed to practice as a licensed out of state attorney IF she submitted a certificate signed by herself and a sponsoring attorney that she had a primary job (Harvard Law) that took her out of the state she was licensed in - and petitioned to be allowed to practice law in EACH CASE she appeared in - in Mass State or Mass Fed Distric Court. The cert had to be signed that she understood Mass Law and Mass Bar requirements, and the sponsoring attorney was putting his or her good name to testimony to support the waiver. But she has refused to tell the Boston Globe if she has those certs in her records, so now Brown's people are demanding to know if the Courts she filed in have record of the certifcation waivers.
3. Federal law allows professors to file in Federal cases in DC and at the Apellate level and receive money for business services from any state outside State Fed District matters...but the requirement stands that the professor MUST be licensed in at least one state at the time. Or they are in violation of Federal Law.
At this point, it is unclear if Elisabeth Warren maintained an active license in any state that would have allowed her to do private business in those Federal legal jurisdictions - if she received compensation AND was not filing from some unpaid Amicus Curiae status.
If Warren dropped both her NJ and Texas licenses..she is in trouble with Federal criminal Law, not just Massachusetts Law.
The analysis at Legal Insurrection certainly seems persuasive at first glance. Persuasive enough to make me want to hear Warren's side of the issue.
The one thing that's hard to believe about the whole deal is -- why wouldn't she try to enter the Mass. Bar? What's stopping her? For someone who can hold down a job at Harvard, you'd have to think that the Bar exam would be no great burden.
This isn't just mucking around with traffic tickets -- she was charging clients big money. Why on Earth wouldn't she get licensed?
My personal take is Warren will be in big, big trouble with voters over this.
Massachusetts requires licenses and fees for just about any business. Warren, who collected 250,000 dollars from just one private client among dozens that compensation is not yet known - on top of her hefty Harvard Law School moolah...is not going to be popular with the local hairdresser who pays for annual business license , health Dept Cert fees, fees to do other things. Or the hairdresser is busted, fined heavily and her business is closed down until she gets her license paperwork straight.
Some 480,000 people in Mass pay Mass money to have the appropriate license and certs. But those are the "little people" such laws are properly intended for, not a Great Woman that is taking on the rich and the business interests! (except her wealthy private clients)...
Practicing law without a license may be considered by other voter on par with them to some quack practicing medicine without license and certification. More evidence on the Fauxahontas bit that she is a liar and a fraud.
Voters may have excused her if she had just said that since arriving in Mass 20 years ago that she didn't know if she was going to stay, so she never bothered getting licensed in Massachusetts. But she got a permanent job 17 years ago at Harvard Law, has bought and sold several homes and appears to have set up her Harvard offices as her private business offices for at least the last 10 years.
And her side private business revenue was lucrative. Very lucrative.
This isn't some "lowly little people" sort of hairdresser who just arrived in Mass from New Jersey last year and not sure of her staying, set up a little unlicensed hairdresser business in her home to get a couple hundred a week, that was busted on complaints from competitors.
And yes, once more info is known, I would love Anne Althouse to write about her take on this matter as a fellow law prof..perhaps avoiding any detailed discussion of her personal and professional life outside her "law professor" area of activities.
LIE-awatha.
So, she gets $300K/yr from HAAAVVAARRDD.....
teaching 1 class and runs her business out of that office?
She's cheap with her own money. She didn't rent office space, pay for utilities, anything, isn't that how it works?
Bottom line re Warren is she is believes the answer to most of our problems is to create big govt agencies that enact and ENFORCE thousands of pages of regulations yet she herself seems to have decided she did not have to comply with nuisances like govt rules.
Why is anyone surprised, if they are, about anything that Professor Elizabeth Warren doesn't do, or anything that she isn't?
It is her method. Period.
just 6 days until I get to do this quarter's half day of uncompensated regulatory compliance paperwork for Liz Warren's CPFB, and it makes me wonder why professors aren't licensed and regulated too.
Federally-issued stink bug emergency funds can't be far behind.
Sounds like Mass doesn't easily admit out of staters to their Bar. Montana is like that too, and it irks experienced lawyers who want to move here.
Studying for another bar exam after so many years is a real hassle, and probably insulting if you're a big shot at Harvard to boot.
Cripes.
You people need to back the f^ck off of Elizabeth Warren, now.
You are all being so unfair.
She's a Democrat - double standards are part of her ideology - she can't change that anymore than she can her Native American ancestry. It's in her DNA.
Holding her accountable for that is just another part of your War on Women, you bastards. Who cares?
Focus on the important things. Scott Brown once posed for Cosmopolitan. He supports Romney. He drives a f^cking pickup truck. Damn. Dude is a walking clown show. Embarrassment to Massachusetts.
Makes me long for the days of Teddy Kennedy.
At least Mary Jo Kopechne had the good sense to stay dead.
What might save her and what is fascinating is that it seems Warren "resigned her license on September 11, 2012 ".
That she was a member of the bar in some state might allow her to represent national businesses such as Travelers. The interesting question is why she resigned her NJ license. Also, why not take the Mass bar once she got a permanent gig with Harvard?
The interesting question is why she resigned her NJ license.
Apparently because she could not satisfy the CLE (continuing legal education) requirements.
Yeah CLE is another royal pain in the ass. No big shot wants to put up with that. Even giving a CLE, except maybe at the ABA convention with lots of perks.
Smell test time:
I have practiced law for 30 years. Your correspondent is correct that a federal court can permit an attorney from a state outside the state wherein the federal court sits to appear before that court. The practice is called “pro hac vice,” which is Latin for “for this occasion.” Here are the pro hac vice requirements for the District Court of Mass, which would be the relevant court in this case.
However, this does not conclude the issue. There would still need to be an attorney licensed in Mass. who moved for Ms. Warren to be admitted pro hac vice for the case at hand. Such a document would have to be in the docket of the case as to which she was representing her client. If Ms. Warren simply filed pleadings without first being admitted to the court pro hac vice, she would be implicitly representing to the court that she was, in fact, licensed to practice in Mass., and if she was not so licensed, she would have violated the court’s rules, and, in effect, have committed a fraud upon the court.
Here is the deal...she will not disclose at present what her private business litigation was, filed in what court.
She has been a permanent faculty professor of law in Massachusetts for over 17 years.
Her defenders say that she is in the clear because undoubtedly some Mass lawyer vouchsafed for her admission each time, case by case, occasion by occasion in "pro hac vice" paperwork, because she couldn't be bothered with getting licensed in her domiciled state for 17 years??
How likely is it that she pressed some other lawyer to stand for her each time, given getting a state of residence law license was perhaps bothersome and cost her extra money...but easier than filing and having the court then have to consent to pro hac vice cert paperwork???
Not very likely.
Rules and regs and more government oversight and paperwork for those dastardly "business plunderers" doesn't apply to a Haaaahvaahd Faculty Member of the same institution that gave us The Messiah, the smartest man in the world who can stop the oceans rise..
Put in other context. If you are a licensed electrician in Mass, you can have people working under you w/o license as apprentices, journeymen...but they have to be paid through the licensee's business and the licensee is responsible for all their work. And there are time limits where at some point, 5 years?? - an apprentice or journeyman must have their own license.
There may also be conflict of interest problems where someone signing on to allow Warren to work under them in one case they have a mutual large financial interest in, is opposing Warren in another case of lesser financial interest which may cause one or both parties to compromise the interests of the client. Unless disclosed to both the Court and the client.
It appears that to get a law license in Mass, while they do not have reciprocity...they allow any lawyer from another state to get licensed without taking the Massachusetts Bar exam, provided the lawyer practiced law in another state for 5 years, was in good standing in that state, and had no ethics matters not addressed or being addressed.
Meaning the mystery deepens because Warren should have been basically able to get her Mass law license application rubber stamped in the last 17 years.
Had she bothered.
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A law blogger in California popped up on another site and said so far he has looked at other full profs on Harvard Law Faculty, a dozen so far, including famous as Warren law profs like Dershowitz, Tribe - and all have current State of Massachusetts law licenses. Except for Warren.
As Professor Reynolds often quips: laws and income taxes are for the little people.
Anybody do a PACER search on Prof. Warren to see what federal cases she's been in?
Also, even though MA has reciprocity, do you still have to sit for the multi-state ethics exam? Another dealbreaker, along with CLE and fees, for a busy professor.
So it sounds to me like she doesn't pay her taxes, or believe in regulations, and takes money under false pretenses to protect big corporations.
Hell, I could do that, and I didn't even go to law school.
If this post was about trand testiculations, Titus would probably have a few things to say.
Also, even though MA has reciprocity, do you still have to sit for the multi-state ethics exam? Another dealbreaker, along with CLE and fees, for a busy professor.
Well, yes, for a busy professor. But we're talking about Elizabeth Warren here. Or, as she's known on campus, "One Class Warren."
I'm not sure if that name will make it through MadMan's "poopyhead" screen.
Also - not to nitpick - it's noted above that the actual, really busy professors at Harvard are on the bar.
John Foster said...
Also, even though MA has reciprocity, do you still have to sit for the multi-state ethics exam? Another dealbreaker, along with CLE and fees, for a busy professor.
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John,
I think you are blowing a little smoke here!
Fees in Mass costing her under 250 dollars are just too much for a poor Halfbreed making 365K at Harvard and billing her private clients as much as 216,000 a company for her services??
Mass does not have CLE, but New Jersey does. Why would the non-existant CLE requirement in Mass be bothersome. And...since she has lived in Mass for 20 years....what do you think the odds are she went to NJ for the classroom attendance required part of CLE??
As for the multistate ethics exam - she already took it in order to be licensed at some past time in her career in NJ and Texas.
I'm reassured to know that the Dems have their equivalent of Todd Akin this cycle. A completely inept idiot who the far end of the base love and will defend until the end.
So incompetent that the other side will be able to hold onto a seat that they really shouldn't otherwise hold.
Golf clap for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for going all in with the Indian princess.
The current photo of Michelle Obama with her wig all crooked is hilarious.
Zach:
The one thing that's hard to believe about the whole deal is -- why wouldn't she try to enter the Mass. Bar? What's stopping her? For someone who can hold down a job at Harvard, you'd have to think that the Bar exam would be no great burden.
Yeah, I read in the article that she could have applied for and received (acceptance?) to the MA bar provided she was currently registered to another bar, due to her teaching, or some such.
Generally, I don't care much about such things, but I realized hey, people like Bagoh20 have to, and if this person wants to write law, she at least ought to understand the pain involved with following stupid rules. So maybe she feels they simply don't apply to her, which could make things really bad.
"I'm reassured to know that the Dems have their equivalent of Todd Akin... "
And all Akin did was say something damaging. This woman has been actually doing things, indefensible things for decades, and personally benefiting from them as well. These aren't just gaffes - this is a career of serious character flaws.
Best comment I've seen on this: Warren's mother and grandmother told her she could practice law in Massachusetts without a license and she had no reason to doubt them.
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