Clik here to view.
Keeping your ticket to ride: latest FREE CLE update.
By now, regular readers know my regard for mandatory continuing legal education and why I periodically post free online CLE programs here. Not only is it mainly a money grab by compulsory membership...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Much to learn in Arizona from Calif. State audit blasting State Bar...
Sure I thought it was grand the California State Auditor again stepped on the State Bar of California last week. My praise, though, is restrained. The California Bar has sustained plenty of hits and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
12 Reasons the State Bar of Arizona is Non-transparent.*
It fails to tell its members where their money goes. The Bar does not provide members a detailed accounting of its annual expenditures, let alone a yearly income statement and balance sheet. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not fishing for more ideas and more FREE CLE.
I’ve been asked why I don’t blog about one of the hot button topics of the day like, for instances, the past notorious murder cases of Casey Anthony, Jodi Arias or Steven Avery. There are lots of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anger over law school scam still simmers.
Unlike new-found inquiries into the source of Jimmy Page’s guitar chords, there’s no question about the common progressions two lawyers strummed this month. Decrying their decisions to attend law...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SAFE and guardianship reforms in Nevada.
I was disappointed to recently learn from a colleague about the demise of the Washoe County, Nevada volunteer program known as SAFE, Special Advocates for the Elderly. SAFE’s purpose is to assist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHAT. THE. HELL.
This is the time of year where anywhere is better than being trapped in Satan’s boxers. Sure, we missed the 120 weather forecast on June 19th. Just the same Phoenix spent the month breaking infernal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Courts and transparency.
If you’re in Nebraska family court, you might wonder why child custody and parenting time outcomes are so seemingly different throughout your state. But if you’re a shared parenting advocate like Les...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Age exemptions wither away — but at least there’s FREE CLE.
In April, the Nevada State Bar’s Board of Governors blast emailed members a third-party confidential survey asking for their “opinion on the CLE and annual license fee exemptions currently offered to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons in ‘courtly manners.’
“They should go get back on a ship and go back to Africa” a Florida judge allegedly observed about African-Americans to a Staff Attorney. She was reporting on the status of an order at the time. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nonlawyers still unwelcome in the lawyer temple.
I recently attended a seminar where a lawyer-lobbyist opined that non-lawyers should not be lobbyists. Influence peddling, it seems, should be the sole province of lawyers. Not that much explanation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The easiest money to spend is still somebody else’s.
On Sunday, the local paper ran a front page story about how $4.6M in charitable contributions was spent. It was only news because of the way some of that money was distributed to the beneficiaries. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Count on the Arizona Bar to overreach.
After kicking the can around for 3 years, the State Bar of Arizona finally submitted a petition to the state supreme court that no one besides Bar insiders was asking for. The Bar wants to amend the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here comes the judge — not!
Illinois lawyer Rhonda Crawford used to be a law clerk for the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County — up until she was fired in August for presiding in court wearing a judge’s robe. She did...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Folly on the loose — AZ Bar Board approves new $300,000 public relations gambit.
West of Phoenix on Friday, an emu was loose on the interstate. Fortunately for the wingless relation of the ostrich, thanks to a state agricultural official’s lasso, troopers were able to corral the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Salad days are here again as online law school seeks entry to Arizona.
No more “moldy mayonnaise.” Holidays and salad days are here again. “Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs” — nonsense! The lawyer glut must be over. Let the good times roll! Or at least that’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Of the judges, by the judges, and for the judges.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a meeting of lawyers last week that “unchecked judicial power” means “we leave it for the least accountable branch to decide what newly discovered rights...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arizona State Bar serves up pre-Thanksgiving Turducken.
Two days before Thanksgiving, the State Bar of Arizona served up official notice of what I’m characterizing as a layered roast of poultry called a turducken. For gourmands, a turducken is a culinary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Loving your lawyer and more Free CLE.
November 4th was this year’s “Love your lawyer day.” Inexplicably, lawyer marketers yearn to popularize this fatuous inanity as “a day to shower their favorite legal eagles with sincere affection.” As...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Waging the lesser fight vs. the Texas Bar.
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” – Groucho Marx Earlier this month, a white Austin lawyer filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against members of the Texas State...
View Article