This happened a few days ago, and I've just got around to posting it. Basically I was out and about walking around.. when my client crashed. (using Enders). When I reached the log-in screen, I noticed my character was no longer wearing his lawspeaker robes, or hat!
I quickly logged in to see what had happened, to another crash (unrelated, but because of it, I lost my robe and hat)
When I logged in the third time, I was indeed no longer lawspeaker, but just a regular villager. I hadn't left the spot I originally crashed at, and the village was at full authority, I have no clue as to how I lost lawspeaking status. Wondering if this has happened to anyone. Unfortunately, when I logged on the 2nd time, my LS robes had been stripped of me and moved to my invetory, which was full, so they moved to what I presumed the ground, where they rotted before I could log on.
Anyways, I just hearthed, walked up to the idol, and got LS back.