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Wed Jan 4, 2012, 09:56 AM Jan 2012

Disgraced journalist Stephen Glass makes his case (for law license)

Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle, 1/4/12

Lawyers for disgraced journalist Stephen Glass told California's highest court Tuesday that the State Bar is unfairly demanding "sackcloth, ashes and a vow of poverty" for Glass to demonstrate that he is morally qualified to practice law.

Glass fabricated all or parts of more than 40 articles for the New Republic and other national magazines from 1996 to 1998, when New Republic editors discovered the fakery and fired him - a story told in the 2003 movie "Shattered Glass."

Glass, now 39, has worked as a law clerk for a Beverly Hills firm since 2004 and has been seeking a law license since 2007, when he passed the state bar exam and applied to the bar for a finding of moral fitness.

The Committee of Bar Examiners turned him down, questioning his claims of remorse and rehabilitation and saying he had not yet shown he could be trusted. The independent State Bar Court ruled in his favor in July, citing character references from 22 witnesses - including former New Republic Editor in Chief Martin Peretz - and finding "overwhelming evidence of Glass' reform" since 1998.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/03/BAR61MKF5L.DTL

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