No room at the bar

No room at the bar No room at the bar On the off chance that continuance were the proportion of ones wellness to provide legal counsel, at that point Robert Bowman would appear to be a strong possibility for the bar. As The New York Times describes, all Bowman at any point needed to be was a legal advisor, and it appears hes spent a decent piece of his life attempting to do simply thatovercoming a troublesome adolescence, ten years of school, four years of graduate school, two weakening mishaps and three fruitless endeavors to pass the New York State law oriented scrutinization. Having at last passed on his fourth attempt, Bowman was met and prescribed for admission to the bar by the Committee on Character and Fitnessonly to be esteemed unfit by a board of investigative appointed authorities dependent on the size of his understudy advance debt.To be reasonable, the adjudicators choice did not depend entirely on the degree of Bowmans obligation (some $430,000, including punishments), yet in addition on the way that, throu ghout the most recent two decades, hes not made a solitary installment to decrease it.Nevertheless, as Elie Mystal sees in an ATL post: Bowman has piled on the entirety of this unpaid liability so as to turn into a lawyer; how can he get any opportunity of taking care of the cash in the event that he isn't permitted to turn into a lawyer? Clearly that is not the courts concern.One may scrutinize the judgment of somebody whos so resolved to turn into a legal advisor that he endures the law questionnaire multiple times and piles on a huge number of dollars of obligation, yet is that actually a reasonable, or steady, approach to gauge a people character and general wellness essential for a lawyer and guide at-law? All things considered, as the Times notes, New Yorks courts have ignored unfortunate behavior like legal advisors sales of minors for sex, endeavors to misdirect judges and ownership of cocaine. Those cases have driven simply to brief suspensions from practice.Why not give Bo wman a similar shot to be an awful attorney?- posted by vera