Rugger
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Holy ****, that's an awful decision. If you can't get a full time job you're morally unfit? What a load of crock.
The applicant completed his application to register as a candidate
for admission to the Ohio bar on January 15, 2008, and unsuccessfully took the
Ohio bar examination in July 2008, February 2009, and July 2009. On November
18, 2009, he applied to take the February 2010 bar exam. The Columbus Bar
Association Admissions Committee reviewed the applicant’s application and his
National Conference of Bar Examiners report and personally interviewed him. In
December 2009, it issued a report certifying that the applicant possessed the
character, fitness, and moral qualification required for admission to the practice of
law and recommended that the applicant be approved.
{¶ 3} Expressing concern about the applicant’s handling of his personal
finances, however, the Board of Commissioners on Character and Fitness sua
sponte instituted an investigation of the applicant’s debt pursuant to Gov.Bar R.
I(10)(B)(2)(e). A three-member panel of the board conducted a hearing on May
27, 2010, focusing upon the applicant’s debt and his lack of a plan to meet his
financial obligations.
{¶ 4} The panel found that the applicant had graduated from Arizona
State University in 2004 at the age of 34 and had attended The Ohio State
University Moritz College of Law. When he graduated from law school in 2008,
he owed approximately $170,000 in student loans – $20,000 for his undergraduate
studies and $150,000 for law school. He also had incurred approximately
$16,500 in credit-card debt.
{¶ 5} Before attending law school, the applicant had worked full-time as
a stockbroker for approximately five-and-a-half years, earning enough money to
meet his expenses. Since completing his first year of law school, however,
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respondent has worked part-time, 24 to 32 hours a week, at the Franklin County
Public Defender’s Office, earning $12 per hour. Although the applicant lives with
his nine-year-old daughter and her mother in the mother’s home and contributes
minimally toward the household expenses, he has been unable to make any
payments on his student loans, which began to come due in July 2009. He has
also been unable to meet his credit-card obligations since approximately
December 2008, and one creditor has obtained a default judgment against him.
{¶ 6} The applicant has contemplated filing bankruptcy and has
submitted a letter from his bankruptcy attorney dated January 29, 2010, advising
of the applicant’s intent to file a voluntary petition under Chapter 13 of the
Bankruptcy Code. The applicant testified that during the pendency of the
bankruptcy proceeding, the payments on his student loan obligation would be
greatly reduced. This strategy would give him time to obtain full-time
employment once he passes the bar and to get his financial affairs in order. The
panel found, however, that as of the May 27, 2010 hearing date, the bankruptcy
petition had not been filed. Moreover, the panel observed that the only debt that
could be discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding would be the applicant’s $16,500
in consumer debt, as the applicant’s $170,000 in student loans are
A 40 year old plumber who went to junior college out of high school should easily have $170,000 in the bank by now. I have no idea why these idiots do this to themselves.
i don't even understand how you can get that much law school debt ($170K) and only get a $12/hour public defender job. guy must've went to a ****** expensive school and underperformed.
...how stupid are you dude? People that went to ******* Yale and Harvard are doing those kinds of jobs these days. For a law genius, you don't know much about the legal market.
i don't even understand how you can get that much law school debt ($170K) and only get a $12/hour public defender job.
...how stupid are you dude? People that went to ******* Yale and Harvard are doing those kinds of jobs these days. For a law genius, you don't know much about the legal market.
There are a non-minimal amount of unemployed law grads even from good schools (because of a variety of factors). In this case, he was basically malingering (very good term for it) and decided he'd rather default than take (no, even LOOK FOR ) a full-time, non-lawyer job.
sure. this guy is an asshole. also if he had to pay sticker at a school like that he probably shouldn't have gone to law school in the first place, so **** him.