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Nothing surprises me anymore.
“Lawyers,” I once wrote, “have an obligation to continued improvement of their professional knowledge and competence.” Not stopping there and marinating in further pontification, I waxed on about how...
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Nevada avoids moving up the highest cost to practice parade.
Last week Nevada’s Supreme Court spared the state’s private practice lawyers from being forced to pay thousands of dollars in annual costs. The court unanimously denied an ill-considered state...
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Major Chutzpah.
Like the bed-destroying dog that expects praise or the guy that lights the house on fire and later claims credit for putting it out, yesterday the State Bar of Arizona blast emailed supposed “good news...
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No lawyer love in Nevada.
The mandatory-membership State Bar of Nevada has been on a troll. Petal by petal, Nevada lawyers are finding the Daisy Oracle’s divining just one answer. When it comes to their bar’s affections — she...
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“Leading Scholars and Most Diverse Amici Ever Assembled File Briefs...
Note: These days accountability is in short supply, it always being easier to blame the other guy when something bad happens. This is especially the case when talking about those wielding unalloyed...
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SCOTUS Reverses “Abood” in “Janus v. AFSCME”— Expect Mandatory Bars to...
In deciding Janus v. AFSCME for Mark Janus today, the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 5 to 4 overturned Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Educ., 431 U.S. 209 (1977). The ruling was widely expected. In overruling...
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Prosecutorial misconduct and rubber-stamped justice.
What all my criminal defense attorney pals long believed to be true got some supportive press this week along with some empirical backing. Defense lawyers know the criminal system is broken largely...
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State Bar Summer Silly Season Starts.
This week signals the official start of summer, which also means — it’s state bar convention time! The annual silly season has begun. In addition to being the last continuing legal education money grab...
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Random notes, the other Kim, and FREE CLE.
From the random notebook: Presidential Pardons The media has done a poor job in my opinion of explaining the Presidential Pardon power. First, it’s not unlimited. Second, it doesn’t extend to state...
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Judicial Independence vs. Judicial Accountability — Judge Persky and the voters.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was recalled Tuesday. He’s the jurist who faced huge blow-back for sentencing Stanford University student Brock Turner to what many believed a too...
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A Nevada lawyer’s perspective: “The New CLE Fee Structure Stinks and Should...
Note: The following is re-blogged with the express permission of author, noted family law specialist, and Nevada attorney, Marshal S. Willick. It was originally posted May 25, 2018 as Volume 66 of the...
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No se habla español — anymore.
First there was Aaron Schlossberg that New York City lawyer whose rant against restaurant Spanish-speakers went viral. In the video taken of Schlossberg’s exchange, he said he’d be calling Immigration...
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Oregon Bar steps in it.
The Oregonian reported last week about the latest mandatory bar kerfuffle. This time, it involves a signed statement published in the Oregon State Bar’s April 2018 house organ, The Oregon State Bar...
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The legal establishment can be harsh.
After reading about the death of 42-year old prominent, “outspoken” Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter this past week, I thought again of how tough and even unforgiving the legal establishment can be....
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You don’t have to pay for the privilege.
I wasn’t going to weigh in. But attorney-client confidentiality confusion is back in the news. This time it’s over President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen and Fox News Talk Show Host Sean...
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Shocked in court.
I have to confess. I had no idea that for at least 20 years judges in some U.S. criminal courts have quite literally been shocking defendants with 50,000 volts of electricity when the judge deems the...
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Proposal paints “NMA”‘Scarlet Letter’ on lawyers refusing to fund AZ Bar’s...
A “membership requirements” survey emailed to the state’s lawyers last week by the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court features an unprecedented argument. Acknowledging that “some lawyers argue...
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Winner, winner — no chicken dinner. . . but at least there’s FREE CLE.
Who knew President Trump was on to something? Forget ‘finger lickin’ goodness. Taking the President’s lead, fried chicken may be safest eaten with a knife — not just a spork. Well at least that was...
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California Governor Signs Historic State Bar Reform Bill.
History was made today in California. Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 36, unprecedented legislation that required painstaking effort the past two years to realize. Bar reform failed in 2016 but...
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Janus may herald changes for lawyers.
Free speech and free association relief for lawyers may be on the way. The nation’s highest court agreed this week to hear Janus v American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),...
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