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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 since that’s Monday in what is ostensibly a holiday week, we are going to get the festivities started today! 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 (meaning work appropriate and slander free) whine and complain about your salary, your job, your boss, the courts, nepotism, the Board of Governors, bar counsel, UNLV Boyd Class of 2013, this blog, etc. It’s also your chance to provide some feedback about the way things are done in the Las Vegas legal community. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who read this blog and see your comments and suggestions (including administrators, judges, and other lawyers). If you want a refresher on what types of things you were disappointed in or complained about last year, use the search box and enter “airing.”
By and large, Clark County has a lazy, underperforming, bought-and-paid-for trial court bench. There are exceptions; but incompetence is the general rule. And it has one tall blonde judge whose zany and violent personal life is an impediment to taking that judge seriously.
I have a small penis
Guys, I am not 9:46, but I have a small penis and have complained about it in this post in prior years. That means there are at least two of us.
To paraphrase the late, great George Carlin, think about how small the average penis is and realize half are smaller than that.
That would be the median penis.
Hey, I didn't write the joke, I just adapted it.
Pretty sure median penis will get you picked up for indecent exposure and possibly panhandling.
You merely adopted the micropenis. I was born with it, molded by it. I didn't see a median wang until I was a man, and by then it was nothing but horrifying.
Our crony-cuck judges rewards their friends and trusted colleagues. What a load of crap.
PS to 9:41, you can't write "eat a bowl of dicks" and "Hooge" in the same sentence. It's a violation of RPC 8.4.
Hardesty can eat a salad bowl of richards.
Is cuck really still a thing?
11:43 gets the post of the day!
A, singular, "bowl of dicks?" What makes you think a single bowl of dicks will be enough… you need a "last supper" level bowl of dicks for those big mouth, chode smoking, unethical shit bags. It should be a flaming dumpster full of dicks… I too nominate Closeted Caleb to receive said dicks.
Judges that take it upon themselves to terrorize everyone in a courtroom
I'm so annoyed by people who do one thing and then say another. Mostly politicians, but i see it with lawyers too. Opposing counsel who complain about something, but then when the time comes they do the same thing they complain about. It's a bit two faced. I wish more people would stand up and say something instead of being sheep. Like the House of Reps voting on impeachment virtually party-line. No one had the guts to vote their conscience–instead it was all political.
I'm also irritated by CLE requirements. What is the point of this stupid affirmation thing we have to do now? It serves no useful purpose. Even worse is the requirement that we have to keep the materials from these pointless classes like substance abuse.
Finally, fuck the billable hour. I see some of you stressing about it and feel your pain, but it is the biggest waste of time and energy.
Trump and McConnell
Elizabeth Gonzalez
Working at Akerman. The working environmemt there, and the people.
I've never heard a single good thing about that place. Even the worst ID sweatshops have a few folks who are decent.
Reading some of their pleadings in another case, nastiest and accusatory I have seen in a long time. I am shocked the attorney do not move for sanctions.
Clients who don't pay their bill.
Clients.
Insurance adjustors
The Captcha thing on this blog, or "I DID click all the fucking sidewalks!"
Wet signatures.
Moist signatures.
Moist.
Non-searchable scanned pdfs.
This. A million times this.
Government attorneys and their stupid pleasant dispositions.
That is a direct result of no billable hours.
State courts not being able to file orders internally or accept proposed orders electronically.
The State Bar of Nevada, President Matteoni, and the BOG that's about to get NSC approval abolishing the longtime exemption of CLE requirements for attorneys 70 years of age and older.
The SBN (not the CLE Board) wants to keep getting its Boomer CLE money no matter how old they are.
So O.K. Boomers!
Merry Christmas from your state bar.
BOGs have gotten a lot wrong, but why do you think you need to stop getting CLEs after 70? The law doesn't change anymore? You don't need to update your knowledge anymore? The exemption doesn't make sense. No, I'm not a BOG.
Also, Matteoni is a great guy.
OK Boomer. For the most part, you don't need CLEs before you are 70. When was the last time you attended a meaningful CLE where you learned something?
I'm not @2:24 or @2:41 – I'm an Inns of Courts member and I learn a lot from the monthly group presentations and when my group puts on our group presentation for the year.
I don’t have a problem with CLE at whatever age, only with the quantity and makeup of it. Everyone should have to attend a one-day session once per year dealing with rule changes, significant NSC decisions, and legislative updates. That’s it. Ditch all the ethics and substance abuse nonsense.
Regardless of age, there's never been any empirical proof that mandatory CLE has made any lawyer more ethical, more professional or more competent. It's simply a money-making public relations dodge imposed on lawyers by state bar associations. If lawyers of any age feel they need to learn a new practice area or they want to stay abreast of changes in the law, they should take a course but that decision should be elective not forced on them by a state bar association driven principally by self-serving economic motives.
I disagree 8:11. We're a self-policing profession. We have an incentive to make sure our fellow lawyers aren't out there committing malpractice. I do think there are too many mandatory hours and the new SU hour is unnecessary, but the idea that the bar shouldn't mandate SOME CLE is dangerous.
Also, don't call me Boomer, 4:00. It's Mr. Xennial to you.
9:57, you are making quite the leap implying that attending CLE safeguards lawyers from malpractice. What proof?
Let me know how well that defense works next time in front of the Office of Bar Counsel. As for "self-policing"? That's just pabulum the state bars like to promote. See, for example,Fred Zacharias' reality-check, "Myth of Self-Regulation" at https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Zacharias_MLR.pdf
anyone see this
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/biglaw-partner-who-said-she-worked-3173-billable-hours-is-suspended-for-overbilling
I have heard of some attorneys that bill this way and it's shocking to me. 90% of the time I record it contemporaneously using a timer. At worst, I record it in the evening. I cannot not imagine letting my assistant put together the first drafts of my time.
Nevada Supreme Court and that damn stare decisis.
OMG! Who screwed up a perfectly good website worse? The State Bar when they "upgraded" or the absolute nightmare that now is the Nevada Secretary of State website?
The Secretary of State, hands down. Silverflume is much more important than the State Bar website, yet it was down for – what was it? Six weeks? A couple months? An utter disaster, and with no backup plan to restore the old site, or to stage the new one before shutting off the old one.
Seriously, when is the State going to sue these contractors who can't deliver while making millions?
I agree that it is unacceptable how botched the rollout of the new SoS website was. However, litigation might not be the answer. The state will point their fingers at the contractors for not delivering, the contractors will point their fingers at the state for not giving enough direction or for slow-rolling necessary design and functionality approvals, and it would be mired in litigation for years (all at taxpayer expense, mind you).
Is someone currently experiencing difficulties navigating the State Bar's website?
No but it is 5 years or so after the "upgrade" so it only took 5 years to get it back to the point of being as functional as it was previously. Thanks Kim Farmer.