InterAlia1961 wrote:bacillusanthracis wrote:
A big part of my holdup is that I'm older. I owned a couple of business which lasted 3 and 14 years respectively, which means I've sued people and have been sued (all contract stuff/no tort). I've been divorced and had a custody battle. My mom died and we had to sue the executor.
I provided them with about a hundred pages of materials, which didn't include the moral character application itself. So I do understand to some degree why they're taking longer than average. But it's been a year now. I think that's enough.
Have you tried to contact them at all? Did you pass the bar exam yet? A year seems excessive where there's no criminal conviction. As for the legal actions, the investigation should be pretty straight forward. Did they ask you to provide any docs from the cases you were involved in?
There was a meeting of the moral character subcommittee on Friday and Saturday. Happens every other month. If you're going to hear something after this meeting, it'll be before the next scheduled meeting in October. Good luck.
When you've been involved in past legal proceedings, either civil or criminal, they ask you for certain documentation, which I did provide, and which is why I had to submit almost a hundred pages of material to them. So like I said, I understand that mine would take longer than most.
And the only saving grace to this is that no, I haven't passed the bar exam yet, so it's not hurting me. But come November, if it turns out I did pass, then this becomes an enormous issue for me. In the meantime though, I see no reason to contact them--no reason to stir a potential hornet's nest. I get letters from them every so often that let me know the investigation is ongoing, and they haven't just forgotten about me.
But having to gather all that old stuff up and give it to some committee to review is an incredibly invasive experience. My divorce, my kids, my mom's death, my business dealings. Having to relive all of that was an experience I could've done without. We necessarily leave things behind in order to be able to cope with the present, and to dredge it all back up again knocked me into a pretty nasty depressive state. Truly, the moral app committee has in their hands the most traumatic things I've ever experienced.
I really didn't know they were going to ask for all that. Before I signed up for law school, I did ask about the moral character app because I had a DUI. I was told not to worry about it as long as it was the only thing, and that I'd never been sued for fraud, had a felony, or something like that. I suppose I could've done a hardcore internet search and found out different, but I gave it the same level of concern the person I spoke with at school did.
Well, I will find out what happens. I guess.