The lawyer was motivated to start the group after being fired from a job when his employer discovered his criminal record. Members of the group of lawyers with criminal records include a New York County judge, a former ambassador to the United Nations and the dean of Fordham Law School. The group considers for membership any law school graduate who has passed the bar but been denied admission on the basis of being an ex-offender. The professor was asked to leave the law school. It seems that most lawyers in 1948 were self-employed and therefore not yet covered by the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance System law.
Litigators are the scariest type of lawyers.
A defendant was being arraigned in a Missouri courtroom on the charge of felonious assault arising from a shooting at the defendant's home. The defendant was confused. He was denied admission to the University of Texas Law School.