{"id":13669,"date":"2009-07-02T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_aspiring_lawyer_finds_debt_is_bigger_hurdle_than_bar_exam\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:09:12","slug":"an_aspiring_lawyer_finds_debt_is_bigger_hurdle_than_bar_exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13669","title":{"rendered":"An Aspiring Lawyer Finds Debt Is Bigger Hurdle Than Bar Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, the committee of New York lawyers that reviews applications for admission to the bar interviewed Mr. Bowman, studied his history and the debt he had amassed, and called his persistence remarkable. It recommended his approval.<\/p>\n<p>But a group of five state appellate judges decided this spring that his student loans were too big and his efforts to repay them too meager for him to be a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplicant has not made any substantial payments on the loans,\u201d\u009d the judges wrote in a terse decision and an unusual rejection of the committee\u2019s recommendation. \u201cApplicant has not presently established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney and counselor-at-law.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/02\/business\/02lawyer.html?em\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/02\/business\/02lawyer.html?em\">Read it all from the front page of today&#8217;s New York Times.  400,000 in loans&#8211;symbolic of this recent era, alas<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, the committee of New York lawyers that reviews applications for admission to the bar interviewed Mr. Bowman, studied his history and the debt he had amassed, and called his persistence remarkable. It recommended his approval. But a group<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13669\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,114,593,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-personal-finance","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}