Legal Ethics

Unpaid Student Loans Derail Law Grad’s Quest for NY Bar Admission

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Jul 2, 2009, 07:00 am CST

Robert Bowman managed to pass the New York bar exam after the fourth try, but there is one more obstacle keeping him from getting a license to practice law: about $430,000 in student debt and penalties.

A New York appeals court ruled (PDF) in March that Bowman had… full story