The Past Catches Up With State Bar Applicant.

When an applicant for membership in the California State Bar worked for The New Republic in the 1990’s, he fabricated magazine articles as well as supposedly supporting materials for the articles to delude fact checkers. The California Supreme Court concluded the applicant did not sustain his heavy burden of demonstrating rehabilitation and fitness for the practice of law. (In Re: Stephen Randall Glass on Admission (Cal. Sup. Ct.; January 27, 2014) 58 Cal.4th 500, [316 P.3d 1199, 167 Cal.Rptr.3d 87].)