1) If she indeed did practice law without being admitted to that bar, and there is no available exception, she is almost certainly violating a rule of ethics. She may also have criminal exposure, I don't know. It would depend on the law where this took place, as well as exactly what her role was.
2) My analysis has nothing to do with Scott Brown, although there are several posts in this thread that I suspect did. Some would rather be faithful to their team than they would be right. I'm just telling you what the rules on practicing law are.
3) I couldn't care less. Unauthorized practice of law is a complicated area with some respects but ultimately my job is to offer my knowledge in the proportion to which my benefit to the client is the same as their pay to me. If someone else can do it better, more power to them. I'm not afraid to sink or swim on my own abilities, and I would encourage others to do the same.
Once again I will say, from my own first hand experience, most non-lawyers who think they know the law are nutjobs who clog up the system with their pseduo-knowledge and internet-plagerized pleadings. They seem to be disproportionately TFHers. The ones who aren't, good for them. It's a free country.
