Law Practice,
California Supreme Court
Nov. 14, 2013
Peter Principle and the story of Stephen Glass
As the state high court seemed to be indicating in their comments at the hearing, Glass will in all likelihood remain a paralegal. Stay tuned.
Julie L. Kessler
PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582
Phone: (310) 403-0009
Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
In 90 days, the state Supreme Court will hand down its decision whether to grant Stephen R. Glass a license to practice law. While in his 20s, Glass was a journalist who breached the most basic possible journalistic ethical credo: He simply made stuff up to sell his stories to Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Harpers and other magazines. Stories that harmed countless people and companies and damaged innumerable reputations. Not one or two sloppy facts or a lone unresearched, careless sto...
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