Should disgraced journalist Stephen Glass be admitted to the California Bar?

You know you did something wrong when you are denied a request to practice law in a state because your ethics are too questionable.

 

Sure, they should let him drink all he wants.

 

Guy who Glass screwed over the most says let him be a lawyer: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/01/stephen_glass_of_shattered_glass_the_california_supreme_court_rejects_the.html

 

Yeah?

 

I haven't personally read the opinion, but apparently it is noted that Glass wasn't forthcoming about some items related to his prior New York bar application. In other words, he had to be pristinely, positively clean as a whistle, and he wasn't.

In my application, they asked for every disciplinary action taken against you after elementary school, not including parking tickets or traffic violations not committed in the last seven years.

I reported a fight I got into in seventh grade, a detention I received for tardies I got in ninth grade, and getting written up in the dorm in the first semester of my freshman year of college, 15 years before, for alcohol. The school didn't have a record of it, if it ever did, but I'd heard too many horror stories about the process. I even went back and wrote up an addendum about it for my law school application file.

 

Really? That sounds crazy to me. Maybe I'm naive, but I wrote that I had nothing, because I thought I had nothing. Might have had a detention in HS, who remembers?

 

My dean of students put on the scare tactics, big-time, about it. To the point I distinctly recall watching a rated R movie during the process - Tarantino, I think - and thinking, "I'm sure glad the C&F committe doesn't know I'm watching this!"

 

Meanwhile, a disbarred lawyer could become a journalist.

So which profession does a better job of ensuring professional ethics?

 

Good thing you're here to save us all.

 

LOL. Funny how journalists can be so defensive, while also looking down their collective nose at other trades/professions that uphold professional/ethical/educational standards among their members.

 

Yes. I understand this.

This is what makes it funny when journalists act like they are part of some elite brotherhood. The requirements are the same as used car salesman, and less stringent than taxi driver.

Henry Blodget can't work on Wall Street ever again, but he's a reinvented himself as a journalist.

So, lob stones at the ethics of lawyers if you like, but you're throwing them from a glass house.

 

FYI, most states require car dealers to be licensed. Just sayin'.