
By Emily Green
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The notion of reinvention is a powerful one. Catherine D. Purcell, a State Bar judge who metes out discipline to unscrupulous lawyers, takes a more skeptical view.
In 2011, she wrote a dissenting opinion opposing her colleagues' decision to support disgraced journalist Stephen Glass' efforts to become a licensed attorney. Purcell rejected Glass' claim that he was rehabilitated and woul... (continued)