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Today marks 10 years since this little blog made its inaugural post. The photo below is from when we celebrated the blog’s first birthday. This post is number 2,228 and we’ve racked up over 5.97 million page views and 59,342+ comments. For 10 years now, we’ve done our best to cover the relevant Las Vegas legal news, rumors, gossip, etc., as it happens. Thanks to everyone who reads, comments, provides tips, and offers the occasional words of encouragement!
Happy Birthday Las Vegas Law Blog. When the comments aren't a complete dumpster fire, this is one of the best places to catch up on local info. So like… 5% of the time, this place is the best. Congrats!
Congratulations.
Keep up the good work. I don't know what I would do without a local source for news, gossip and a place to vent.
Thank you
Agreed! When you cut out the trolling and white noise, the blog is a great resource and source of entertainment. Thank you for keeping it up and running all this time.
I enjoy the trolls. Seriously, who is (or was, it's been over a decade) the BK Hottie? I suspect it was Allf in her prior life as a big shot bankruptcy attorney.
You're trolling with that Allf comment aren't you, you cheeky bugger.
This site definitely makes the Vegas legal community seem much smaller. Thanks to the administrators and the commenters that provide useful content.
The blog is one of the best parts of the community, thanks Admins who keep it up and running well for everyone!
Ten years later, and the same person keeps posting over and over again.
No. It's only the same person commenting about Judge Forsberg. All the other comments are from a broad and diverse cross section of the legal community.
Echoing all the praise and thanks rightly being heaped on the admins. Let us know how to pay it forward
I enjoy coming here. Thank you.
FYI The court issued Administrative Order 21-04 late Friday updating the COVID directives.
Can you give the lazy folks the highlights?
12:36 here
I am not lazy, but I am too busy drafting to do a side-by-side comparison with previous directives.
In the areas I am concerned with, not much changed. It looked like they cleaned up and made some items clearer. Mostly it looks like it dealt with in-person matters with the RJC starting to open up.
The Clerk's office is open to in-person filings, but electronic filings are encouraged.
Those who are not "fully vaccinated" must still wear face coverings in the RJC. Face coverings still required in courtrooms, jury assembly rooms and other designated enclosed spaces.
Most of the "good" provisions seem to be continuing, such as e-signatures, submitting orders to the department inboxes, remote appearances whenever possible.
I don't do criminal, so I'm not up on what has changed there.
Oops, I meant 12:55, but I too enjoy coming here and thank the blog administrators and all those who post thoughtful and useful content.
http://www.clarkcountycourts.us/res/rules-and-orders/2021-06-07_08_16_08_skm_c65821060412170.pdf
Thanks Law Dawg
Jay Young gave a great presentation on motions for attorneys' fees today at the Bench Bar meeting. If you missed it, I think you can contact Department 26 and get the video (Commissioner Young's presentation begins at about 20 minutes in). He also put together a very helpful RAR form as to fees that could easily be converted into a form motion, which saves time and clients money. I am going to have our office manager order the video and make all the paralegals and associates in our office watch the presentation. I know that we do not always check all the boxes in our fee requests and this is very helpful information. I have to say that I really like Jay Young. I've never met him personally, but he seems like the kind of guy that wants to help everyone develop a better practice. His website was such a great resource, as are the books he wrote. He is the kind of person that SHOULD be a law professor, but I am happy to keep him as a commissioner.
1:33–you seem very conscientious, responsible, professional, detail-oriented
and intellectually curious.
In other words, you are everything I'm not.
For example, I tend to lose focus by later afternoon, put on a fresh pot of coffee(or dig out the flask in my top drawer), and turn on the telly in my office and catch some moldy Gun Smoke rerun, or other programs from the distant past. Although I'm burning out and not too productive by late afternoon, I dare not go home as my family despises me.
But my first decade of practice I was much more like you than I am now.
1:33 PM here. Sadly, I am not. Not even close. I am sure I am in the bottom quartile of attorneys as to organization and conscientiousness. I do admire people like Jay Young who set a good example (and seem to be humble and helpful).
If 1:33 won't take it, I will. I am very conscientious, responsible, professional, detail-oriented, and intellectually curious. I am also easy on the eyes.
@559 is the BK Hottie
When you are not sure whether to laugh at them or think it is ingenious.
"A prosecutor and a defense attorney in Nebraska have been reprimanded for a scheme reminiscent of the Wild West in which they told two convicted criminals to get out of town and never return.
On Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court issued public reprimands for Custer County Attorney Steven Bowers and Broken Bow defense attorney Christopher Wickham for carrying out the “banishment plan.” The high court said Bowers and Wickham violated rules of professional conduct and their oaths as attorneys.
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-ddbe2544b1a9e872fb7186f3de8954a9
somebody has to say it……"this blog is dead"
Boyd '13
Congrats, dead blog. You are the only zombie I like. With respect to the banishment plan referenced by 3:51, I think Moapa Valley had the same thing going, but it was run by a JP up there.
I propose a blog happy hour. Free drinks for lawdawg and quickdrawmclaw assuming they wish to identify themselves and provide proof that they are who they say they are. Lawdawg or quickdrawmclaw can set the date, time and locale. Alternatively they can identify their favorite legal aid entity and we can make a donation on behalf of the blog. I would only ask that the legal aid entity identify how much you cheap bastards donate. /s/ ID FBU 999999
P.S. Anyone that has been criticized or defamed is free to attend and should receive free drinks as well, including but not limited to G-Force, Bulla, Allf, and Hardesty.
Alf
I slay me!
@4:41 – thanks for the suggestions. I actually kinda like these ideas. Maybe one day we’ll actually do something along these lines…
@441
Did you just use "including but not limited to" in a blog comment? My two part question, including subparts is (a) did it just naturally occur without true analysis and consideration; or (b) were you being ironic?
If (a), then: You need a vacation. and Not the Friday and Monday kind, a real, 10 days out of the office on a beach, river, lake or Disney World, your choice.
If (b), then: You are awesome and do not need a vacation but may take one at your leisure.
441 here. Unfortunately (a). Just rolls off of my fat two finger typing like stink off a skunk.
@838 here
Govern your conduct accordingly, per instructions herein above.
From a post about 10 years ago:
"Luckily, I am gainfully employed. The flip-side to my good fortune, however, is that I have little time to regularly amuse you all with creative posts. Realistically, I think I could probably muster a few decent posts a week, but I’ve been around long enough to know that most of you get bored with stale posts, and when you get bored, things go downhill fast."
Still 100% true, law.dawg. 100% true. I hope you have continued to be gainfully employed. Thank you for having this space.
Still practicing law, still busy, and still moderating all your comments literally every single day of my life! Thanks for the support and encouragement NMA, everyone else who commented today, every other day, and even to all those of you who just lurk. We love and appreciate almost every one of you!
Also, a big, huge, enormous thank you to QDML for all your time, effort, and daily posts all these years. I know from experience what a grind and how thankless this job is almost all of the time.
Here’s to ten great years, and to many, many more!
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10 years ago (or prior to this blog's predecessor) you couldn't publish a screed and have it read by a large portion of the legal community. You are no more censored in your ability to speak your mind on your time on your platform than you were 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago.
There have been posts about (1) best and worst judges and (2) most improved judges. However we all have seen the judges who have regressed, who start mailing it in or who the grind on the bench has taken them from being a great judge to being a terrible judge. I will be the first to say that being a judge is not glorious and glamorous and clearly takes a toll on people.
However my nomination is Art Ritchie. I used to truly believed other than Gloria Sanchez (and maybe Frank Sullivan) that there was not a better, more compassionate and conscientious member of the Family Court bench. Ritchie has become bitter, irascible, unreasoned and frankly an appeal waiting to happen in every case. I am saddened by this decline but it is hurting people.
Gloria Sanchez was a gem on the F.Ct bench. No doubt, however, even she got it wrong sometimes, usually when there was an obvious conflict and counsel (on the other side of the conflict) was not astute enough to insist on recusal.
Art, usually gets it right, but I agree that he has become arrogant, bitter, and Doug Smith like in demeanor. It seemed to happen a number of years ago during his last term as Chief Judge.
The Ritchie comments are spot on. Pompous, mean and frankly bad at his job because he takes liberties that judge would take out of obvious arrogance. He used to get it right but now has gotten sloppy and needs to retire. I agree that it unfortunately happened during his last stint as chief but that was while ago and shows how long he really has been sliding.