{"id":161098,"date":"2026-08-20T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/hearing-adjourned-after-lawyer-suffers-shock-bar-association-election-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:16:09","slug":"hearing-adjourned-after-lawyer-suffers-shock-bar-association-election-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/hearing-adjourned-after-lawyer-suffers-shock-bar-association-election-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Adjourned After Lawyer Suffers Shock Bar Association Election Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take. With that in mind, an attorney in India sought and secured<\/em> an adjournment following a surprise bar association loss.<\/p>\n

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Shock due to losing bar election is a novel ground for adjournment. We learn something new every day. pic.twitter.com\/i0xT6zDYXv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeetender Gupta (@jguptallb) August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

At least, that\u2019s the reason the judges presiding over the case imputed to the request because, as Bar and Bench<\/a> notes, \u201con August 5, the counsel had requested that the case be listed after August 17\u201d and specifically cited the bar election as the reason. <\/p>\n

Frankly, she could still be the new bar association secretary if Mike Pence has the courage.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Hearing Adjourned After Lawyer Suffers Shock Bar Association Election Loss<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take. With that in mind, an attorney in India sought and secured<\/em> an adjournment following a surprise bar association loss.<\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s the reason the judges presiding over the case imputed to the request because, as Bar and Bench<\/a> notes, \u201con August 5, the counsel had requested that the case be listed after August 17\u201d and specifically cited the bar election as the reason. <\/p>\n

Frankly, she could still be the new bar association secretary if Mike Pence has the courage.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take. With that in mind, an attorney in India sought and secured an adjournment following a surprise bar association loss. Shock due to losing bar election is a novel ground for adjournment. We learn something new every day. pic.twitter.com\/i0xT6zDYXv \u2014 Jeetender Gupta (@jguptallb) August 20, 2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Headshot-300x200-3U7Tuc.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}