In articles that Glass wrote when he was in his 20s, the California Bar applicant damaged reputations using quotations, events, and people that he’d invented. Commenting on the denial of admission, Stephen Gillers, a law professor of legal ethics at New York University, said: “The question is, are we prepared to say as lawyers that a man who is no longer considered moral enough to be a journalist is moral enough to be a lawyer? If people flame out in journalism because of dishonesty, is the law open to them? I think the answer is no.”