- Quickdraw McLaw
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- An inmate plead guilty to threatening to kill Judge Miranda Du. [KOLO]
- Developers and trial lawyers faced off yesterday over the AB421 construction defects bill. [TNI]
- The AG filed a motion to dismiss the suit that seeks to end legal brothels in Nevada. [TNI]
- Nevada lawmakers are looking to regulate shareable scooters before they take off here. [Las Vegas Sun]
I am not hardly a member of the NJA; but I cannot help but see its efforts in this construction defect legislative battle as heroic. NJA members are putting in time, effort, and a lot of money to crank up CD machine again. Yes, they'll benefit greatly once the old "Chapter 40" system is restored; but look at all the others who will benefit: donut-eating insurance defense lawyers, court reporters, claims adjusters, construction "experts", document management companies, mediators, special masters, paralegals, and on and on. And none of these derivative beneficiaries are contributing to the effort to bring back the old system. Trial lawyers are not heroes for the pretextual reasons they say they are; but they're heroes nonetheless.
And if you think CD isn't great for the legal industry, just wait until some out-of-work insurance defense lawyer comes looking to take YOUR job!
Couple of points you got wrong or mischaracterize–
donut-eating insurance defense lawyers- Those plaintiffs' counsel ate donuts too. And it is a little disingenuous to say that the insurance defense lawyers are not lobbying to bring back the old system to the detriment of their clients and their carriers. The construction industry is lobbying and is using lawyers. Both sides are using lawyers.
claims adjusters– Yes absolutely why wouldn't claims adjusters be up there advocating for more insurance money to have to be spent? How "unheroic" of them.
mediators– Mediators of course. Their neutrality would never be questioned if they lobbied the Legislature for more money floating to be given to Plaintiffs.
What you have just described is not heroic; it is self-interested pablum. Heroic is if you said trial lawyers were standing up for the little guy and trying to write the wrongs and get justice. Everything you just said represented what was wrong with the old system– Scott Canepa got rich, Nancy Quon suffered and builders went broke.
And if you think CD isn't great for the legal industry, just wait until some out-of-work insurance defense lawyer comes looking to take YOUR job!
Ya know, I was a CD lawyer for a few years, and I don't recall eating that many donuts. Cookies, yes. Taco Tuesday at Esquire, sure. Whatever mystery meat was the alternative to the vegetarian meal at Lit Services, absolutely. Occasionally, if we were lucky, Panda Express. But donuts? Maybe that was just before my time.
There's a specific Assembly member they are referring to regarding the donuts.
Donuts, like cookies, are delicious.
I for one am shocked, shocked I say at the demeaning and hostile hate speech being used in this thread to degrade and humiliate an entire class.
Hmmm… wait a minute…
What the hell?!?! Doughnuts aren't a protected class?!?!
Country's going to heck…
Donuts are wonderful, but they are stale by the next day. Perhaps twinkies, and other Hostess products, are the protected class as they are so saturated with preservatives that you can enjoy them months after purchase. Well…your mouth and taste buds may enjoy them…but your heart, arteries and other organs? That's a different matter altogether. But Twinkies are the true protected class among pastries.
Remember when they were going to be discontinued a few years back? But the public hue and cry saved the Twinkies form their pending execution date.
There were some abuses by the plaintiff's bar under the old law, but the 2015 revision was a wish list for builders that went way too far in the other direction. They need to bring it back to the middle somewhere, and I say this as one who has eaten many cookies on both sides of the table.
It is not important which side of the table one eats cookies, only that cookies are eaten. Also, life is suffering. -His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Amazing how court of appeals does not review the record. Do not even attempt to hide it.
We have one person, will net mention names, who is filing things over again that is not supposed to. Real idiot. Amazed the other party has maintained composure.
Is Resnick and Louis a good firm to work for? Any insight is appreciated..
Never heard of it, which is usually a good sign.
I've been opposite them on a few cases. A couple of people were decent to deal with, a couple of others were real assholes (one of whom is well-known as such around town). My guess is they're probably no better or worse than many of the other multi-office ID sweatshops that have sprouted in the last several years.
They cycle through lawyers like it is going out of style. Randy Tindall managed to survive there. Now that I think about it, those 2 statements may be more than just coincidence.
What's wrong with randy?
1:46 here – you guys keep saying the quiet part loud.
I just thought of a great analogy to State Bar, but I cannot. I just cannot.
Don't tease us like that, 1:53.
Cracker Barrel
Deliverance.
The Office.
Where is Shelley Young going? Seems like she is besties with Paola.
What is going on with Night Ranger, I mean the Gamages.
Shelley Young is gone. Hooge brought in one of is buddies from the rurals who also does not know how to practice law. It is like having 1Ls oversee the practice of law. We are doomed.
Shelley Young gone, at least there is a little karma there.
I've got the milk money ready, whose turn is it take the red wagon to go pick up the warm milk for a nap for this kindercare class. Wait, I mean for the State Bar. We need a good hall monitor…
BOG elections are coming up. Who is throwing their hat in the ring?
I would like warm chocolate milk and a blue nap mat, thanks. Sorry, thank you for the laugh.
9:39, you should.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/entertainment/kim-kardashian-west-bar-exam-trnd/index.html
She will fit right in…..in California.
for all you who eat cookies and not donuts, yall must be ID lawyers because donuts > cookies, and thus yall have low standards and expectations….just like your work environment. (haha im kidding…kinda)