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Woulda-coulda-shoulda and why race still matters.
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” – Chief Justice John Roberts For the moment forget my snark two years ago when I riffed on the US...
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Transform the Bar: 2014 ARIZONA BAR BOARD OF GOVERNORS ELECTION.
Last Sunday night I skipped Mad Men and Game of Thrones and didn’t finish reading Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop. Instead I stayed up late posting a new blog. Another blog? It’s not like I’ve...
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Whither thou goest, Arizona State Bar?
Note: The State Bar of Arizona begins online elections tomorrow to elect 11 lawyers from three counties to its 30-person board of governors. I am reblogging this from Transform the Bar: 2014 ARIZONA...
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Nevada Bar President in trouble over his “tone.”
Talk about timing. No sooner did I say something nice about a state bar president when the following month he’s in hot water. Call it the burden of irreverence. I’m referring to Nevada State Bar...
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“Stop pissing me off . . . if you want to fight, let’s go out back.”
How’s that for an arresting quote? Haven’t heard such talk since my barrio East Los Angeles high school days. But as an instance of failed judicial temperament? Who’d of believed it? I must need a...
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Fiscal year CLE deadline approaches but there’s always FREE CLE.
I’d meant to post about Arizona escaping the list of this year’s “Top 10 Dumbest States in America,” especially since my former home state of Nevada is an ignominious recidivist on the list. 1) West...
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Another ‘poppycock’ survey from the State Bar of Arizona.
“Overall, how satisfied are you with your State Bar membership?” That’s the first of 40 questions asked by the State Bar of Arizona in the 2014 version of its triennial Member Survey. A week ago...
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Almost Free and Free CLE.
A quick post on Continuing Legal Education (CLE). In the past, I’ve posted about CLEonline.com, which when you’re in a hurry; up against a deadline; and can’t find Free CLE — then almost free CLE is...
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“Obstreperous” attorney free speech advocate Paul Ogden prevails — in part.
Last October, I reblogged a post by Indiana lawyer Paul Ogden who was then facing a one-year suspension for a private email criticizing a judge. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ogden’s troubles,...
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AZ Bar still asks ‘are you happy?’ and responds to ‘poppycock’ survey post.
“Are you a member or happy?” Paraphrasing that other “Mo” — the one with an “e,” the State of Bar of Arizona is still asking. How happy are members with the Bar’s programs and services? Although I...
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“I’m back! I’m back!” Post brouhaha judge back on the bench.
I love juxtapositions. It’s an odd personality trait. Or maybe, it’s the heat. Or it’s niggling sleep deprivation now that I’m up earlier than usual — before 4:30 AM to walk our dogs before the summer...
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Judge Richard Kopf and our unfiltered world.
Like Cher, Article III federal judges answer only to themselves and to God — assuming, that is, they aren’t atheists — otherwise they’re not answering to the Almighty either. Which leads me to question...
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If you can believe it, survey claims consumers use Yelp to find lawyers.
Celia Cruz – “Reina De La Música Latina” Early Saturday morning I was catching up on my reading while listening to “Queen of Latin Music” Celia Cruz, lawyer-turned-salsero Rubén Blades and soulful Sam...
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There’s always more room in the clown car.
John Lennon was right. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” Not long after I ate a couple of yellow nectarines yesterday afternoon, I got a robocall. It was from the big box...
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“Candy Andy’s” back and John Gleason’s out.
As he said he’d do, disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is running for Governor of Arizona — along with the usual Arizona collection of migrant-demonizing far right extremists —...
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The first rule of lawyering.
Some time ago, I posted about client and case selection and how important that was, particularly during an economic downturn. Well now that things have supposedly picked up and are coming up rose...
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No expectations as Arizona Bar’s role and governance under review.
Suspending for a heartbeat my natural skepticism when it comes to Arizona’s legal establishment, especially its ‘friendly state bar,’ the following announcement might be good news. But I’m not holding...
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Yeah, that’ll do it. Revisiting incivility.
I was thinking of incivility again. Maybe, it was prompted by reading Kathleen Geier’s out-of-both sides of her mouth musings about Joan Rivers. On the one hand, Geier thought Rivers “was pretty great”...
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‘Pay-to-play’ as Arizona Bar moves to protect its lucrative CLE turf.
“When somebody says it’s not about the money — it’s about the money.” - H.L. Mencken This Friday, the State Bar of Arizona considers whether or not to ask the state supreme court to approve a...
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WTF? And More FREE CLE
“What the falafel?” I rhetorically asked after two colleagues separately emailed me the past day about the State Bar of Arizona’s new CLE Institute Training Program. Ahead of the Arizona Bar’s likely...
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