{"id":55721,"date":"2023-08-31T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55721"},"modified":"2023-08-31T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:32:18","slug":"law-license-50-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55721","title":{"rendered":"Law license 50 today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is my 50th anniversary as a lawyer, sworn in at 9:00 am, Friday August 31, 1973, by Jimmy Hawkins, the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court.  (The bar results were out at noon Saturday, August 25th. I don&#8217;t remember why I waited six days.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fitting, then, that today I&#8217;m waiting for a jury in the Western District of Arkansas at Fayetteville, after an eight day wire fraud trial vs. Main Justice Fraud Section. Three prosecutors, four defendants, 350 exhibits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my 50th anniversary as a lawyer, sworn in at 9:00 am, Friday August 31, 1973, by Jimmy Hawkins, the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court. (The bar results were out at noon Saturday, August 25th. I don&#8217;t remember &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55724,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721\/revisions\/55724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}