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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
Happy Festivus! (Technically, it is tomorrow, but we can’t wait so we’re going to start the festivities now!) Gather your family, friends, co-workers, enemies, judges, opposing counsel, etc. because it’s time to kick off the holiday fun with a tradition that some of you do on the blog all year long, 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, billable hours, the courts, nepotism, sexism, the Board of Governors, bar counsel, UNLV Boyd Class of 2013, the annual boondoggle (which is in Maui next year), this blog, all the thwacking, and/or anything else that 2025 threw at you this year. 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 in years past, use the search box and enter “airing.”
Here’s my list:
*Email – email is putting me in an early grave. Email has trained people to expect an immediate response. Gone are the days when you receive something, have a chance to take it in, have some time to draft a response to the person within 24/48 hours.
*The American System of fees and costs – we need an overhaul of the policy against legal fees for prevailing parties. The frivolous suits are killing me and Plaintiffs know that a carrier will write a check to make a crappy case disappear.
*Political correctness – Example for this time of year – I hate that I hesitate to write “Merry Christmas” in an email -when I am a Christian and that is my holiday. Christmas is a Christian holiday. Yes, many non-Christians celebrate and appreciate the presents, santa and all the joy that comes with the holiday outside the birth of my lord and savior Jesus Christ – but fundamentally, Christmas is a Christian holiday and it should not be politically incorrect for a Christian to wish someone a Merry Christmas. I wish all of my Jewish friends and neighbors Happy Hanukkah without hesitation. And, I do say happy holidays because there are so many around this time of year. But lets stop with the Christmas shaming or offense if someone tells you “Merry Christmas.”
*Pronouns in emails – just stop it already. We all passed 2nd grade. That’s a massive red flag for most of us – you should be aware of that if you’re putting pronouns in your emails or bios (we all make fun of you and avoid you at all costs).
I’ll come back later wtih more. Merry Christmas.
Maybe you should put that you’re a Christian in your signature line and bio so people can be more sensitive to your needs.
You sound like a they/them.
You cite “The American System of fees and costs”. I am not certain that I understand your comment. Of course that means each side bears their own fees and costs which can be circumvented by early and often offers of judgment which would give the mechanism to fees in the frivolous cases that you eschew.
Looks like you do understand the comment, but you do not understand offers of judgment and their teeth (or lack thereof).
I agree with 8:46. The comment was written in a confusing manner. A “loser pays” system will be far worse for Defendants than the American Rule.
I practice in an area of law in which fees are recoverable by the prevailing party. In practice, this means courts award fees to prevailing individual plaintiffs and deny fees to prevailing corporate defendants. Plaintiffs thus use fees to inflate their settlement demands, but don’t acknowledge having to pay fees as a risk to proceeding (because, in the overwhelming majority of cases, it’s not).
Amen and Merry Christmas! I’m so sick of woke Karens and Chads who think they get a say in what words we choose to speak. Self-righteous leftist morons have worn out their welcome.
Here’s my list:
(1) Once again, I remain my own worst enemy. 80% of my problems are created entirely by me. I gotta lot of problems with myself, and now I’m gonna hear about it!
(2) The State Bar convention. I would actually like to be more involved and attend. But this is deliberately designed to keep thousands of attorneys out, and a couple hundred (at most) in. That said, this is never going to change and it’s not worth being angry over. Acceptance is the answer.
(3) The amount of time this takes away from my family. This morning, my son said, “When I own a business, I’m not making my employees work from December 22 on,” as I left the house. Oof.
(4) Dishonest lawyers.
(5) The traffic on the 215 through Summerlin. This used to be a breeze commute.
(6) The cops who give tickets on the 215 through Summerlin. You are gumming up an already bad situation and making things less safe.
(7) The absence of a decent restaurant in or around the RJC.
(8) Ingratitude of some clients. I’m EASY to manipulate. Give me just an ounce of gratitude and I’ll go bonkers on your behalf. It’s not hard. Or is it?
(9) People that interrupt or prevent nooners. One of the few pleasures of this job is sneaking home at lunch with my wife to make whoopee.
(10) Fellow so-called Christians who get their tit in a wringer over whether other people are saying and accepting “Merry Christmas”. Do we belong to the same faith? Because it feels like we do not.
(11) Entering my time.
(12) All the emails and texts which have to be responded to almost immediately.
heavy on #7.
Number 11 is the bane of all ID lawyers
What’s ID lawyers? Insurance defense?
Number 10 – “fellow … Christians,” really?
OBC with virtually no practice experience.
I was involved in a case with a vexatious litigant who made a bar complaint against the lawyer. Bar Counsel’s investigator called me and so did the assistant b.c.. It was obvious they don’t understand the legal system and litigation. The attorney got sanctioned. Ridiculous.
Cabal of LACSN, no flat-fees, Bar Counsel pursuit of solos, and a few of the well know divorce lawyers, all leading to children being harmed every day. Don’t look past it. Take time out of your day today to become informed and live up to the what lawyers can be. Do something please.
Don’t get angry about the flat fee situation. Just do hourly and move on. It’s not worth getting upset over.
Heavy on cabal of LACSN
Don’t forget that children of the people you talk about here also read the blog and comments.
Why would they?
Off the grievance track for a second. I see Emily McFarling is running for Department H. I take it this means that Ritchie is taking his bad attitude off of the bench to have it replaced by Emily’s bad attitude?
I was under the impression that was a prerequisite for a family court judge.
this comment
Last time I was amazed at his rude demeanor.
At the beginning of his tenure, Ritchie was as good of a Family Court judge in experience, demeanor and practicality as I have ever experienced. However he has been nasty and bitter for far too long. Perhaps the experience soured him. Certainly I understand how it could have. But he is a decade too late is hanging it up.
Emily McFarling is going to be awesome! She cares about the community, is smart, and has a great temperament.
And hopefully can hear cases from Hungary.
Question for Law Dawg – if I try to access the blog from my phone it says my location is blocked by IP Location Block. I have never had a comment removed but it is okay if I am banned, I wanted to mention it from my desktop in case it was a glitch affecting others.
You are not alone in this. Doesn’t matter if my phone is in incognito mosquito mode, for the last few days, it’s been denied by IP Location block.
I am reading this very blog from out of town, killing time while my wife gets her Christmas Pedicure and I am on my Macbook being hotspotted in from my cell phone. Working fine today.
Me too. No more phone access.
Lawdog will you unban my IP if I make a new years resolution to behave myself?
Ditto on this one. I have to hotspot from my office when I want to comment.
I had to get a whole vpn
Click on all of the things that look like they might be a chair, or maybe that’s a bed, or maybe those are some curtains. Time limit exceeded.
I didn’t think I had trouble telling a purse from a mattress until this came into my life
or a bag from a bucket.
the only one I pass 100% of the time is the clocks one. Everything else is a bit iffy at times.
Hey, the best piece of advice from this blog was the poster who said it’s always 5 of whatever: beds, bags clocks–I thank that poster every day I have to login to effing Odyssey
I just told my new assistant that exact thing today, which I learned from that poster here. “Always 5 there are, no more, no less.”
That was a godsend. Ok I found four purses, now I guess I will click on whatever that vague and unrecognizable blob is. Oh, guess it was a purse.
Scam Phone Calls
Spam and Phishing Emails
Hackers and Identity Thieves
Sanctimonious Liberals
Blowhard Conservatives
Government Overreach and Inefficiency
The Cost of Registering My Cars
Paying Taxes to Support People Who Refuse to Work
Undocumented People Who Come Here Just for the Government Handouts
Anyone catch the RJ article on CERT court? It was sounding like a good thing til the last paragraph. Only two have been admitted into the program and both were removed. One for cutting off his ankle bracelet and the other for shooting someone in the face. I am shocked Bluth allowed this article to run. It started off well and made her look good but then turned into a hit piece. If these are the “kids” she’s trying to save, and not send to prison, God help us. No wonder Schwartz wasn’t in the photo op. “Kids are impulsive”. Really really bad choice of words and an even worse use of judicial resources. The “kid” that shot someone in the face should not have been in CeRT. he should have been in prison. This is on the judges hands.
I agree with the following:
1) Once again, I remain my own worst enemy. 80% of my problems are created entirely by me. I gotta lot of problems with myself, and now I’m gonna hear about it!
(7) The absence of a decent restaurant in or around the RJC
(10) Fellow so-called Christians who get their tit in a wringer over whether other people are saying and accepting “Merry Christmas”. Do we belong to the same faith? Because it feels like we do not.
Click on all of the things that look like they might be a chair, or maybe that’s a bed, or maybe those are some curtains. Time limit exceeded.
I choose to say Merry Christmas and dont GAF who has a problem with it.
I also don’t care if someone wishes me a Happy Holidays. . . . . Some people need to get over themselves.
I have no grievances this year. A wonderful surgeon named Kelly Kogut, M.D. just saved my grandson’s life.
The judicial candidates who have signs up already for next year when the judicial filing period hasn’t even opened yet deserve some kind of punishment.
They are simply trying to give the impression that they are sitting on a large war chest and not afraid to spend it in an attempt to scare off any potential challenger. In many cases it is either their last dollars they have saved, or it’s borrowed money. It is either coming from personal funds, or if they have run in a prior contested race it could be residual funds from that race. Remember, until they have an opponent they can’t do any fundraising (the Cherry rule)
It can also be a way of getting one’s name out without finally designating a race yet. There will be jockeying as people move around as to what seat they will finally end up running for.
1. The NJA lobby that every two years makes our community more unaffordable while rewarding themselves through PI-friendly legislation.
2. The ineffectual “ID Bar” that somehow can’t be bothered to cooperate and put up a reasonable opposition to #1.
3. Judges who don’t know the difference between a question of law and a question of fact.
4. Judges who do know the difference between questions of law and fact, but refuse to address questions of law anyway because they want to get re-elected and have sufficient funds in their campaign budget to do so.
5. Judges who don’t show up, don’t hold hearings, and issue vague and poorly worded minute orders through their clerks.
6. Notices of Entry of Order. What a monumental waste of time. You know what constitutes notice of a court’s order? Service of the order.
7. People who run for judge or JP three or four or five times and just don’t get the hint.
8. The RJ quoting legal filings and complaints verbatim without providing any context or understanding for what it means for laypeople, thereby needlessly confusing and enraging its readers.
9. The Law Blog making me think it doesn’t love me by blocking viewership from my cell phone IP address over the weekend.
Attorneys use #7 for name recognition and advertising, and ability to use donations to accomplish it. General public doesn’t think “hell, he’s run for judge so much but still lost, he must suck”
General public generally does not know who previously won and who lost. They pay attention at election time to (1) your position on the ballot; (2) your perceived gender relative to their preconceived notions of who would treat you nicer and (3) if they recognize your name.
Names are often more recognizable by people who run frequently and lose than people who run once and win. The difference is that the latter can put up signs using the title “Judge” while the former cannot.
Who ran for judge four times?
I would like to take this opportunity to thank God, my family and my teammates for that past year. With that said, I hereby announce that I am entering the transfer portal so feel free to send your NIL offers my way.
Hours steeped in shame
Regrets age unseen inside
Still, success goes on
Can anyone explain why the State Bar of Nevada can’t open their business and start answering their phone on time like every other business in the state?
Captive clientele; no competition.
The ridiculous layout of this website. It looks like it was put together by a 7th grader taking his first web design class. Honestly.
Your refund check is in the mail!