Why was Miers' law license suspended?

[cynatnite]

Senators Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the committee chairman, and Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat, sent Ms. Miers a letter faulting what they called incomplete responses about her legal career, her work in the White House, her potential conflicts on cases involving the administration and the suspension of her license by the District of Columbia Bar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/politics/politicsspecial1/20confirm.html?hp&ex=1129780800&en=19c8ac980653a543&ei=5094&partner=homepage

I googled, but didn't find anything.

[Straight Shooter]

1. Oh my word.

Failure to pay dues? Naw, huh-uh, that can't be it.

The pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

[Kenroy]

2. There was a story last week

that she hadn't paid her Bar Association dues. It was a minor, clerical issue.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051018/us_nm/usa_court_miers_dc

[MissMarple]

3. Yup, that was it. Ah Huh.

What ever the lady says. ;)

[Kenroy]

5. You think there was another reason?

I suspect it would be easy to find out, if that were the case. Aren't such proceedings public?

[DefenseLawyer]

7. It's an administrative thing

In my state you have to pay what is called an "Annual Fee" to the Clerk of the State Supreme Court. Failure to pay the fee would eventually result in a suspension. It is not like a disciplinary proceeding where a person is suspended or disbarred. The thing that strikes me is how someone in her position could let it lapse to the point of being suspended, because I would guess that one would have to be late several months, after repeated notices of the failure to pay and the pending suspension, before such a suspension would take place. It is a fairly innocuous mistake, but still, I would like to hear an explanation. Is she THAT careless or disorganized?

[patricia92243]

9. Doubt she takes care of her own bills. Probably a secretarial/bookkeeper

oversight.

[fujiyama]

12. She doesn't take care of the property she owns either

One article basically said she was a slum lord!

[MissMarple]

8. Actually, I have no clue.

But that is embarrassing enough as it is. I just don't trust anything these guys come up with to explain their little problems. Sadly enough, it probably is the correct answer.

[cynatnite]

4. Thanks...I missed it :) n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. I have a license and I sure as heck wouldn't let it expire.

They send you notices and you have several months notice in most cases. You've gotta really be disorganized to let something like that happen. This is coming from a person who wouldn't remember her head if it weren't screwed on....

[cynatnite]

11. You and DefenseLawyer make really good points...

I hope it comes up in the hearings. Disorganized and careless isn't something that should be accepted in a nominee.

[Neil Lisst]

10. It's a stupid rule and it catches a lot of people.

It's all about the Benjamins. The State Bar of Texas wants to get paid, Yall! And it does. If it doesn't, suspensions! Deep, and hard!

Of course, if you need anything from the State Bar, don't expect anyone to act or to move fast or even to get back to you, because they're worthless.

Anyone who wanted to be president of the State Bar of Texas AND won is a fortiori unqualified to sit on the Supreme Court.


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