{"id":217000,"date":"2010-01-13T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aconnecticutlawblog.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:00:31","slug":"does-connecticut%e2%80%99s-attorney-general-have-to-be-an-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217000","title":{"rendered":"Does Connecticut\u2019s Attorney General Have To Be An Attorney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryan McKeen<\/p>\n<p>I was asked this question last week and my response was &#8220;I think so, otherwise he or she would be a felon for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I roll with an exciting crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The question is actually kind of interesting because one does not have to be an attorney to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway conversations like that fuel the fire that is this blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The Attorney General shall be an elector of this state and an attorney at law of at least ten years&#8217; active practice at the bar of this state&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/2009\/pub\/chap035.htm#Sec3-124.htm\">Conn.Gen.Stat. Section 3-124<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, the answer lies in the statutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryan McKeen I was asked this question last week and my response was &#8220;I think so, otherwise he or she would be a felon for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law!&#8221; Yeah, I roll with an exciting crowd. The question is actually kind of interesting because one does not have to be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}