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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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