Fightin’ Joe Morrissey may get his legal license back
By Norman Leahy | Saturday, December 17th, 2011 | Politics, VirginiaDemocratic Del. Joe Morrissey, who was disbarred in 2003, and even managed to upset the otherwise boisterous Australians, may be able to hang his shingle once again in Virginia:
A one-page decision Friday by the state Supreme Court that is absent any legal or evidentiary analysis sets ground rules for the reinstatement of Del. Joseph D. Morrissey’s license to practice law in Virginia.
The court’s rejection of a Virginia State Bar disciplinary board recommendation in May to preserve Morrissey’s years-long disbarment requires the lawyer-turned-legislator to pass the written portion of the state bar exam and to show that he has had 60 hours of continuing legal education in the past five years.
I’m sure that with his prodigious verbal, mental and pugilistic skills, Morrissey will have little difficulty in returning to the Bar and fighting for his clients. And against other attorneys.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Post contributor.
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[...] Joe Morrissey takes pride of place. The putative Henrico county power broker received the improbable news that he would be allowed to get his law license back if he gets a “…scaled score of 85 [...]
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