President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review,
is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 in
order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A "Voluntary
Surrender" is not something where you decide "Gee, a license is not
really something I need anymore, is it?" and forget to renew your
license. No, a "Voluntary Surrender" is something you do when you've
been accused of something, and you 'voluntarily surrender" your
license five seconds before the state suspends you.
2 Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license in 1993.
after a Federal Judge gave her the choice between surrendering her
license or standing trial for Insurance fraud!