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“The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” –Frank Costanza
Technically, Festivus is on December 23, but we just can’t wait to get the festivities started! Gather your family, friends, co-workers, enemies, judges, opposing counsel, etc. because it’s time for the Airing of Grievances!
For some of you, this is what you were born to do–this is your moment to shine. Your gift of complaining is finally welcomed and wanted on this one occasion. This is your chance to (civilly) whine and complain about your salary, your job, your boss, the courts, nepotism, the legislative Republicans, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Wiznet, Lewis Roca Rothgerber, the Nevada bar, UNLV Boyd, this blog, etc. It’s also your chance to provide some feedback about the way things are done in the Las Vegas legal community. If you want a refresher on what types of things you were disappointed in or complained about last year, here’s a link to last year’s post.
I have a small penis.
Lol. As long as it works for you
Motion of the ocean.
BHAHAHAHAH!!! Finally a man who admits his "short-comings"
hahahahahahaha props to 9:04 AM!
I HATE how attorneys who don't practice Family Law can even run for a Family Court judge position and vica-versa.
I'm so embarrassed by the way we elect our judges. It's a farce. A lot of money was wasted on election campaigns for judges who are supposed to be impartial later. The fact that we allow firms to make contributions and still appear before the judges blows my mind.
Also, the fact that the Supreme Court is in the pockets of the unions/casinos, i.e. Taxis vs. Uber. Seriously?
You can be embarrassed by it, or you can embrace it and use it to your advantage. The trick to functioning successfully in Nevada is to abandon all sense of shame. If you grew up in the upper midwest or any place where something akin to the Protestant work ethic is recognized, you need to unlearn everything you were ever taught about morality and manners. After that, you will thrive in Nevada.
11:18 AM just won everything. This blog. The internet. The world. Everything.
Truer words have never been typed on this blog.
@10:05 Amen, brother! Nothing but paid whores cultivating their own vanity and self promotion. On another sucker's dime of course!
I love Nevada but I hate that our state is at or near the top of every awful list (worst educational system, lowest graduation rates, highest incidence of teen pregnancy, etc.) and is at or near the bottom of all the good lists (quality of life, charitable giving, etc.)
But, we're not supposed to discuss this because it raises questions that our casino industry and our pols would rather not answer.
Re-read 11:18am above. Adopt a new reality. Who needs teachers and education when cocktail waitresses and valet parkers earn high five-figure paychecks?
Here's a timely article about a UNLV professor who is also a waitress. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
What the hell is wrong with the local U.S. Attorney's office??? Why have they not indicted Bundy and his minions for the dozens of charges which should have been filed as a result of the stand-off and his actions that led to the stand-off? It's embarrassing to allow armed confrontation of federal officials without some kind of consequence.
Grievances:
1. CourtView gets updated (on the taxpayers dime) and every time they never ask the actual users what problems they have.
2. Still no reciprocity from the State Bar.
3. The State Bar website is still a public embarrassment and no one there will admit it,much less fix it.
4. Recruiting candidates who never say yes or no, but just hide from me, life and themselves. Why do you start the process if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to make a decision? How are you an attorney??? To the ones who say a clear and definitive crawl off and die, my sincere thanks for being able to actually make a decision and not leave me wondering for months on end if they're still in play.
5. Vegas is still too cold and wet (which is why I live in Laughlin – along with the lack of smog and traffic).
6. Boyd Law School still doesn't have a single law clinic having to do with commercial law and continues to fail to cut back on the size of incoming classes despite the continuing economic hard times.
7. Judge Cadish, the best judge in Nevada, isn't sitting on a more important bench.
8. Can't buy a decent three button suit off the rack anymore (I've switched to made to measure).
That's a start…
If a recruiter reaches out to me, and I indicate that I'm not really interested in moving, but I'll listen to offers, I don't really feel badly when I say no.
Agreed. Also, I hate when recruiters try and act like they are really interested in my future. Listen, I know they get compensated when I take their gig, and that's fine. No problem with it. Just don't try and sell me that you are more worried about my future than your paycheck.
December 19, 2014 at 1:53 PM – Thank you, I wish more would be like you.
December 19, 2014 at 2:13 PM – Preaching to the choir, I couldn't agree more. My benefit to my candidates is rooted in my greedy self interest. Looking at the long term though, I stay away from what I call address changes (i.e., after the first year in a new firm, you realize the only thing different, is that your work address has changed). Not good for my reputation with either clients or candidates. SHARK PIMP SEZ: Most deals don't happen because most deals shouldn't happen.
My grievance? The fact that there are lawyers who consider Judge Cadish "the best judge in Nevada". She is not.
Judges working over the next 2 weeks (A – G): Adair, Allf, Barker, Denton and Gonzalez. Judges enjoying 2 weeks off of court calendars: Bare, Cadish, Earley, Ellsworth and Escobar.
Delaney and Elliott yes
Cadish sucks. She is not the best judge in Nevada.
I'm tired of clients who get offended when I ask them to pay their bills. Or that I would even demand to be paid up front. Or people who think my time is worth nothing.
The courthouse remains a decaying shithole.
I'm pissed that so many damn Democrats didn't bother to vote in the election — leaving us with Laxalt and what can only be an insane 2105 legislative session. While I look forward to the humor value of Republican in-fighting, I am ashamed that the liberals couldn't get their act together enough to get voters to the polls. I also hate the lack of leadership in the state Democratic party. Surely there is some decent progressive out there who could take on the job.
Thanks for the time travel @11:34
Stupid Drivers
$14 cocktails
Lazy judges
Lazy Attorneys
A Hole Attorneys
A Hole judges
A Hole clients
Ex wives
Alimony
Ted Cruz
Pink lemonade
Flavored vodka (it is effing vodka, mix it with something)
Wal Mart
Open carry nutbags
Cliven Bundy and the "militia" who showed up
The things this Country did as outlined in the Senate Torture Report
Fedoras
Caps worn backward
Seeing Chumlee drive a Lambo
(to be continued_
This is an excellent list.
Fedoras?!?!?!?! How dare you! I am outraged, outraged I say! Seriously, call me, I can hook you up. U bee stylin'.
You can shave the beard off the neck, but you can't take the fedora off the neck beard.
Great list. I would just add Judge Vega hasn't taken her retirement. To continue to sit on the bench while in the final stages of dementia is not right.
Your list is great except for Chumlee. He's a genius. The show was his idea.
My nemeses of the day: Decent attorneys who get promoted to supervisory positions, despite having zero supervisory skills and zero interesting in learning how to be effective in the new job. Yes, I'm talking about you.
You certainly must be referring to certain bitches at Springel and Fink and Lincoln Gustafson
Plaintiff's attorneys who seem to just be having fun every day and enjoying their lives. They are always the ones joking around before court starts and they are always the ones with the prettier wives. To top it all off, they seem to work 10-20 hours per week LESS than me, yet they seem to make significantly MORE money than I do. So tired of it.
This wins, says every defense attorney ever.
Steve Sanson
Judges who kowtow to Steve Sanson. Do you realize how humiliating this looks for you?
An elected judiciary
Liberal hack Jon Ralston
Half-witted sycophants of liberal hack Jon Ralston (including a substantial portion of LV media)
Judges who don't read filings/motions
Discovery
The lack of decent parking near the RJC
Judges who don't have the balls to make tough decisions, thereby dragging out the litigation
The morally bankrupt people at Clark County School District in charge of educating our kids
UNLV's law school
People who refer to UNLV's law school as "Boyd" instead of calling it UNLV Law.
People who thoughtlessly defend the unnecessary existence of UNLV's law school.
Quarter-witted (and I am being generous here) sycophants of Faux News
Really, judges kowtowing to Steve Sanson, that's your beef? Silly I'll grant you, but he's never asked judges to torture seniors and treat them like cattle. The REAL outrage is half the county judiciary whoring themselves out to that god damned, scum bag Jared Shafer who should be locked in a fucking box at the state prison for the rest of his miserable, greasy, low life, elder abusing, unnatural life. No citizen should ever vote for any judge who takes a single dime from him or one of his free or discounted campaign signs. They should all be turned out. I may think Steve Sanson doesn't contribute much to an intellectual discussion in the selection of judges (and frankly, for all his good intentions I don't think he does) but at least he cares about old people. If Sanson makes a blacklist next election of judges in hock to Shafer, I'll follow it.
Assemblyman Pat Hickey is a Cock.
It is interesting that the message of A Charlie Brown Christmas seems to be that faith is everything, and that in the end it will defeat the corrupting influence of consumerism. BUT, in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Linus, the one kid with faith in (albeit in the Great Pumpkin) is left to freeze in the Pumpkin Patch, while all of the trick or treaters, i.e., CONSUMERS, have a great time and end up SAVING him.
So, per Charles M. Schultz God > Consumerism > Pagan Deities.
Have you seen It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown? Be prepared for a real mind fuck.
I agree with you 3:28 PM, Assemblyman Pat Hickey is evil.
What is with all this talk about Assemblyman Pat Hickey? I thought it was common knowledge that he was a total tool bag..
The list of grievances is too long to air. I'm just happy I get to see my nieces and nephews for the holidays. Eff the rest of it.
Fedoras, I love it. Maybe I can bust out my V-neck sweater where I place my corn cob pipe, and we can rock out to Frosty the Snowman. I play a mean harmonica!
See?!?!?!?! He gets it! Well sort of, trade the v-neck for a crew neck cable knit sweater, the corn cob pipe for a few bottles of AquaDeco, and the harmonica for a Steinway, but you're headed in the right direction. But Frosty's welcome, he prepped at PE…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0
Hey the year's almost over, I think we've run out of serious stuff to talk about. Go with it.
What is AquaDeco?
OMG what ARE you drinking?
http://www.aquamaestro.com/innerview.asp?catid=60
Obviously not AquaDeco
Obviously…
Support staff near my office who do nothing but talk loudly on personal calls all day forcing me, against my will, to hear all about their medical and personal problems.
THIS.
What's worse is when it involves personal medical problems. Uncool on so many levels.
How about lazy time wasting support staff in general. You know, just pure drainage on profits altogether. Always chatting and whining, hardly contributing their fair share. Out the door at 4:45.
Attorneys who loudly support their good fortune and pop the cork on champagne bottles while staff is getting let go on Dec 31 with no insurance or severance.
Assuming you are referring to LSC, they did name five new "partners" on December 18, 2014:
http://www.lionelsawyer.com/2014/12/lionel-sawyer-collins-names-new-partners/. I'm not sure what that really counts for since the firm had already voted to dissolve.
Maybe the firm could get their partnership buys-in from them before the dissolution.
My guess is that those 5 were up for partnership at the end of the year, and that LSC wanted to grant them that in hopes of assisting them in their new job search/salary negotiations. That is all I can think of.
Well, they were named as partners and not shareholders, so it would not appear there was any buy-in involved. It does seem strange to do something to help out some of the attorneys considering what apparently is happening to the support staff. Maybe this was so these favored ones would be higher up at FC.
Well, one of the "new partners" was already leaving to head up the Gaming Division at the AG's office. Mind you, this was announced before the "Effective date" of the partnership, so I'm not sure what they're trying to pull here. Maybe FC agreed to pay some sort of severance to "partners" who were not joining FC?
My buddy and I are going to start a law firm for a week so we can put "partner" on our resumes when we look for jobs after we dissolve.
Can someone explain the activities of the new appeals court legal clerks, and who they are, and what is their experience
New clerks? The CoA was sold on the basis that it would use existing staff and facilities.
You believed the tripe that the CoA would use existing resources and should have no financial impact or, at worst, very little? That's so Cute!