It's really not that big of a deal. I did it when I stopped practicing to stay home with my kids.
The Florida Bar charges an annual inactive fee, but waives CLE compliance.
“They probably chose to be inactive.”
Yeah, about like the groom who chose to be married with the father-in-law to be standing beside the groom at the wedding with a loaded double-barreled shotgun.
To preserve the image of the Illinois Bar, attorneys who have committed felonies and misdemeanors are permitted to volunteer for placing their law license into inactive status alongside the attorneys who have committed no felonies or misdemeanors. The confidentialty rules then permit plausible deniability for those attorneys whose cases have not become a matter of public record through a criminal court proceeding. When investigating this last year, there were some Web pages describing how Illinois attorneys who were found guilty of child molestation and other crimes were permitted by the ARDC and Illinois Supreme Court to volunteer for court ordered inactivation of their law licenses.
So, the Obama supporters who claim the Obamas’ voluntary inactivation of their law licenses indicates there could not have been misconduct or felonies involved are misleading and deceiving the readers. The deceit is immediately evident the moment you search the Internet and find other cases in which an Illinois attorney commtted crimes and was then permitted to voluntarily inactivate their law license.
Michelle is rumored to have been ordered to inactivate her law license as a consequence of some kind of improper misuse or handling of funds. Since the file is confidential, there is no apparent means of determining the truth.
Barack is alleged to have been compelled to inactivate his law license as well for failing to disclose his other names or aliases, criminal drug abuse, and unpaid parking tickets.
Barack’s autobiographies disclosed some of his drug abuse, while other sources have alleged he helped Frank Marshall Davis and Stanley Dunham (his grandfather) sell marijuana and cocaine from a hot dog cart in Hawaii. Some of this illicit activity is widely alleged to have something to do with the inactivation of his law license, financial troubles, and near divorce by Michelle.