A University of California Hastings College of the Law graduate should no longer be allowed to practice law in California because she lied about having a disability in order to get more time to take the 2009 bar exam, the State Bar of California said Wednesday.
The lawyer, Leah Harmuth, received time and a half to take the July 2009 bar exam in a semi-private room after claiming in a March 2009 application that she suffered a disability and had received similar accommodations as an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, according to the California bar. Citing the confidentiality of admissions records, the agency did not specify the nature of Harmuth’s alleged disability.
