Nevada will consider three-stage process to join bar. [ABA Journal]
Jewish student, represented by Sigal Chattah and Joey Gilbert, files federal lawsuit alleging antisemitism at UNLV, inaction by Whitfield, Regents. [RJ]
Judge Joanna Kishner to hear Nevada’s case against Meta. [RJ]
Some voters, including a local blogger, received multiple mail-in ballots. [New to Las Vegas]
Residents pledge to fight gas station construction behind Southwest Las Vegas neighborhood. [KTNV]
Man accused of threatening ex-wife’s Las Vegas attorney. [8NewsNow]
Who is funding negative campaign mail? Legal loophole helps some groups avoid disclosure. [TNI]
He and Craig Mueller owe something like $160,000 in fees in his last case. Mueller owes over $90,000 in attorneys fees in the Cliven Bundy case. He needs to be a little more selective with his cases.
The Court previously granted Mr. Lombardo’s Motion for Sanctions on September 23, 2022 and imposed sanctions in the form of attorney’s fees on Gilbert and his counsel, Mr. Mueller,
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED 24| that i. Lombardo is awarded attorney’s fees in the total amount of One Hundred Sixty-One Thousand 25| Four Hundred Forty-Five Dollars ($161,445.00).
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May 29, 2024 10:38 am
My condolences to all parties involved in that Meta case.
Family Court Update: Two pro se litigants, not married. Dad files a custody complaint using the self-help forms. Dad clearly checks the box on the form that paternity is NOT in dispute, he is on the birth certificate and has acknowledged paternity. Family court clerk’s office files the matter as a paternity case. Why? Because P cases are “super sealed” so that no one can see them. If you log into the portal and type in a P case number, you cannot see it even exits. Nothing shows up. Why would the clerk’s office be engaging in this kind of behavior? Why would a straight forward custody case be filed as a P case? Why is the clerk’s office bowing to the family court cabal? What is the family court trying to hide?
Not sure I’d include LACSN – they sided with ONJ and public access. Definitely agree the cabal includes OBC and high profile divorce attorneys. Making money off the misery.
Yeah? Talk to the many thousands of Nevada plaintiffs who had unnecessary spine surgeries for no other reason than to line the pockets of their contingency-fee lawyers.
Once a family law case is over, most litigants are eventually able to move on with their lives. But no one is ever the same after a 3-level Kabins fusion.
Solid family law attorneys have no shortage of business and candidly do not need to convince litigants to hire them (or at least this one does not). Maybe I am in the minority, but I give candid/honest advice and analysis on their case and potential outcomes. Then the ball is in their court.
This is a lie. “Solid” family law attorneys routinely milk their clients for every dime they can. I’ve practiced in this hell hole for too long. I’ve seen it way too many times. Litigants will go bankrupt fighting over used furniture because their attorney convinces them they have to.
The rules say 200 feet. They obtained a variance, if that is the correct term, in order to build 40 feet away. If it was being built 200 feet away, then I would agree with you, but changing it to 40 in order to make some deep-pockets developer or investor happy stinks to high heaven and raises suspicions in my mind about whether someone is on the take. 200 feet means 200 feet.
When they had every expectation that they would be able to live in a safe, healthy environment, that’s at what point. If a carcinogen-generating pollutant moved in next to me and I developed cancer, I might be terminally mad at them. Get it? Ha ha ha! So says the atheist.
If their cancer-causing chemicals invade your property, that’s a violation of your property rights, so I agree. I don’t agree that you have the right to stop other people from putting their property to good use because of evidence-free health fears or because it might cause “traffic.” You live in one of the biggest cities in the country, move to Ely if you don’t want to deal with traffic.
Or immediately preserved all the ballots and contacted law enforcement/registrar/FBI/Tom Cruise to document the problem instead of just posting about it online.
No you are completely wrong. You want to proceed through the litigation process, I have no issue. You threaten physical violence against anyone in any setting, and you are going to prison. You bleed over to threats of physical violence against law partners who have nothing to do with the case, you are going to prison. Based upon the reports in the story, the attorney put up with it for long enough. The more frightening thing is that these were acts of violence for months and it took MONTHS for anyone to take action.
You can read the criminal complaint in Justice Court before the grand jury indictment came back. It is really not a close call on why this guy was charged.
Not the commenter, but I believe he is referring to the bindover packet that is filed in District Court that includes the Justice Court files or the Grand Jury Indictment. Those packets contain all the good stuff.
No I was referring if you have an account on Justice Court Portal that you can see and pull down all civil (and quite a bit of criminal) pleadings in Justice Court. Works very similar to Attorney Portal on the District Court side. Just search the bad guy’s name in Justice Court and the viewable pleadings pop up
Being that I personally know the attorney at the heart of the case, I can assure you that having too small of a backbone is not an issue. None of us attorneys, no matter how contentious the case is, deserves to be threatened like this.
Yes. It’s slowly turning to indentured servitude to the larger firms who will train like cpa firms. Always against the smaller firms bc larger firm partners control governing boards ie NSB, OBC, etc.
I’m all for adding an experiential component to bar passage, but to be honest 40-60 hours of practical experience seems way too low. A judicial extern can spend the better part of a week drafting a brief on a tricky legal issue (tricky for them that is; no judgement, we were all there once), and completing a handful of such real-world assignments can hardly serve as a stand-in for anything. Besides, who goes all the way through law school without getting any practical experience over 1L and 2L summers at minimum, to say nothing of externships during the academic year? Between summers, clinics, and a semester-long full-time externship plus contract clerk work while studying for the bar I probably had about a year of real-world experience by the time I graduated law school, and it wasn’t nearly enough to prepare me for what awaited. Any experiential requirement should be orders of magnitude longer than 40-60 hours.
Yes, the new bar 3 step process pretty much mirrors what it takes to get a real estate broker license. Take some classes, take a multiple guess test, and a short time in practice.
The new approach is so wrong. If you can stand a pun, it really lowers the bar for entry… and diminishes my license turning a profession into an occupation.
40 to 60 hours of supervised practice – absurd
I was lucky enough to get hired by a 50 plus attorney firm in downtown Los Angeles, occupying two floors of a high rise.
I was assigned to a mid-level attorney, whom I saw maybe 3 times in a week. I had 80 hours on the books before I knew where the copy machine, coffee machine and bath rooms were located. My first OJT was an assignment were to copy my attorney’s motion from another case for one of his cases. Oh, yes, I probably spent most of the first two weeks drafting interrogatories.
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May 29, 2024 2:50 pm
I’m very glad I’m past the halfway point of my legal career. The “fake it til you make it” path to admission will open the floodgates. I could start a business charging terrible law students to gain their experience working for me.
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May 29, 2024 3:32 pm
Glad there is a post about this new Next Gen bar exam for Nevada. What happened to one exam and your done? A 100 question multiple choice seems too easy. Suppose that is the point. Let’s pass everyone and make it easier. The premise of this new bar exam is troublesome. Professor Joan Howarth believes the bar exam is a discriminatory gate keeper against women and minorities. Has she seen that the majority of new lawyers, law grads and judges are women. So how is it discriminatory against them.. It is discriminatory–discriminatory against those who don’t know the law, can’t write and can’t analyze. The bar exam is the only mechanism that does that.
CPA’s have to do audit hours under firms. This gives them 100% total power over those who want to be CPA’s. That’s exactly what this is doing – it will be a short step to say it’s not 40 hrs or whatever but u have to work on large cases. If u don’t see the correlation ONLY large cpa firms do audits n coa candidates have to do bout a years worth of coa work n audit roughly. Same thing with student teaching. Fight the power, the nsb n the Obc.
That’s all fine and good except that it costs roughly $1000 a pop (took it twice, paid ~$1300 the first time and ~$950 the second time, so this is a rough estimate don’t you dare nitpick me). Hard for me to separate the self-righteous gatekeeping of NV law licenses from that small detail, especially when [insert generic gripe about the SBN annual conference being in New York City last year].
SBN needs to answer for that above all else. Go ahead and make me pass all the tests you want, but at least do me the courtesy of not charging me $150 to use my own computer (each time) while pretending the bar exam is about merit.
edit: this is in response to 3:32, to be clear. But yes fight the power!
I did a full year clerkship and a full year at a large firm in addition to a court internship. I think that was about right for me – 2.5 years of real world experience. Not 40 hours. I’ve crapped motions longer than that.
Experience
The ABA/SBN are talking about 40 – 60 hours of mentored training as sufficient, similar to what the medical profession requires. Really?
Total BS. After med school traditionally there is a 1 year internship, which is hands on. After that most MDs are residents under the supervision of an experience physician for anywhere from 2, 3 or 4 years.
I WANT to see a bar exam. I believe in setting an intellectual bar that keeps out those who are intellectually deficient. Discriminatory? HAH! I say. Every field is discriminatory. I’m a 5″ 4′ male. Guess what? I’m not going to play basketball professionally. Is that discriminatory? Different people have different talents and interests. Hopefully, their interests align with their talents. If you’re not intellectually talented enough to pass the exam, find something else to do with your life. You’ll be doing everybody a favor, most of all yourself. A difficult bar protects you from yourself. Remember that.
copy/paste what I said above because it bears repeating: That’s all fine and good except that it costs roughly $1000 a pop (took it twice, paid ~$1300 the first time and ~$950 the second time, so this is a rough estimate don’t you dare nitpick me). Hard for me to separate the self-righteous gatekeeping of NV law licenses from that small detail, especially when [insert generic gripe about the SBN annual conference being in New York City last year].
SBN needs to answer for that above all else. Go ahead and make me pass all the tests you want, but at least do me the courtesy of not charging me $150 to use my own computer (each time) while pretending the bar exam is about merit.
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May 29, 2024 6:44 pm
Can someone explain what the political slogan “offset the offseason” means?
I have no idea where that quote comes from, but to me it seems like a slogan designed to find ways to drive economic opportunities during traditionally slow or low revenue periods.
His website says he wants to diversify the economy for the slow parts of the year. Unfortunately he has no specific ideas and his signs make his look like an H.R Pufnstuf character.
“Yearly, Las Vegas Experiences an Offseason(June-August, and November-February). Las Vegas economy has become almost seasonal and unpredictable. Whenever inflation strikes, during and after any world financial or economical meltdown(2007) during and after a pandemic, Las Vegas always experiences more suffering than any other city in the nation.”
Nice to see ol’ Joey G taking some time off from scamming Douglas County to make a run at finally getting rid of that troublesome First Amendment.
He and Craig Mueller owe something like $160,000 in fees in his last case. Mueller owes over $90,000 in attorneys fees in the Cliven Bundy case. He needs to be a little more selective with his cases.
The Court previously granted Mr. Lombardo’s Motion for Sanctions on September 23, 2022 and imposed sanctions in the form of attorney’s fees on Gilbert and his counsel, Mr. Mueller,
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED 24| that i. Lombardo is awarded attorney’s fees in the total amount of One Hundred Sixty-One Thousand 25| Four Hundred Forty-Five Dollars ($161,445.00).
My condolences to all parties involved in that Meta case.
why? what’s going on that we should mourn?
Family Court Update: Two pro se litigants, not married. Dad files a custody complaint using the self-help forms. Dad clearly checks the box on the form that paternity is NOT in dispute, he is on the birth certificate and has acknowledged paternity. Family court clerk’s office files the matter as a paternity case. Why? Because P cases are “super sealed” so that no one can see them. If you log into the portal and type in a P case number, you cannot see it even exits. Nothing shows up. Why would the clerk’s office be engaging in this kind of behavior? Why would a straight forward custody case be filed as a P case? Why is the clerk’s office bowing to the family court cabal? What is the family court trying to hide?
Always remember the cabal includes OBC, LACSN, and high profile divorce lawyers.
Not sure I’d include LACSN – they sided with ONJ and public access. Definitely agree the cabal includes OBC and high profile divorce attorneys. Making money off the misery.
Most lawyers make money off misery, not just divorce lawyers.
11:00 here. That’s arguably true, but family court is a special kind of hell. IYKYK.
Yeah? Talk to the many thousands of Nevada plaintiffs who had unnecessary spine surgeries for no other reason than to line the pockets of their contingency-fee lawyers.
Once a family law case is over, most litigants are eventually able to move on with their lives. But no one is ever the same after a 3-level Kabins fusion.
Fair enough. But you’re mistaken if you think you can get out of family court. It never ends. Your ex can take you back over and over again.
Yeah, but that’s not because of The Cabal™ or the court.
It’s because you have minor children with your ex.
Disagree. Greedy family law attorneys will convince a litigant to go to court over the smallest thing just so they can bill their file.
Solid family law attorneys have no shortage of business and candidly do not need to convince litigants to hire them (or at least this one does not). Maybe I am in the minority, but I give candid/honest advice and analysis on their case and potential outcomes. Then the ball is in their court.
Yes, it’s not the attorneys most of time. New girlfriend/boyfriend gets territorial and fees get generated.
This is a lie. “Solid” family law attorneys routinely milk their clients for every dime they can. I’ve practiced in this hell hole for too long. I’ve seen it way too many times. Litigants will go bankrupt fighting over used furniture because their attorney convinces them they have to.
That’s how they become “solid.”
Exactly. That’s also how they obtain the funds to donate to campaigns to keep the cabal in place.
Do you have an example?
I have many examples. If I name names my comments get thwacked so you’ll just have to take it on faith.
Not op but I’d love to have a day we could name names n cite cases etc. I’ve tried too but get thwacked
At what point did people decide that since they own a house, they have the right to dictate what other property owners can do with their land?
The name Karen became popular in the English speaking world in 1940 so I’m guessing shortly thereafter.
The rules say 200 feet. They obtained a variance, if that is the correct term, in order to build 40 feet away. If it was being built 200 feet away, then I would agree with you, but changing it to 40 in order to make some deep-pockets developer or investor happy stinks to high heaven and raises suspicions in my mind about whether someone is on the take. 200 feet means 200 feet.
When they had every expectation that they would be able to live in a safe, healthy environment, that’s at what point. If a carcinogen-generating pollutant moved in next to me and I developed cancer, I might be terminally mad at them. Get it? Ha ha ha! So says the atheist.
If their cancer-causing chemicals invade your property, that’s a violation of your property rights, so I agree. I don’t agree that you have the right to stop other people from putting their property to good use because of evidence-free health fears or because it might cause “traffic.” You live in one of the biggest cities in the country, move to Ely if you don’t want to deal with traffic.
Vegas isn’t even in the top 10 so slow your roll there fella
My mom called me last week about getting a bunch of ballots at her house for a bunch of people that don’t live there and never lived there.
Sure.
And I’m sure she dutifully returned them all to sender through the USPS rather than throw them away.
Or immediately preserved all the ballots and contacted law enforcement/registrar/FBI/Tom Cruise to document the problem instead of just posting about it online.
Sure, Jan.
Stuff that for sure definitely happened for $500, Alex.
An attorney was threatened through email and this resulted in felony charges? Seems like the attorney probably needs to have more a backbone.
It was a series of violent threats against the lawyer and witnesses over a period of months. I’m fine with this application of FAFO doctrine.
Fuck that guy. He needs to go to prison. You don’t get to terrorize people because life didn’t turn out the way you wanted.
No you are completely wrong. You want to proceed through the litigation process, I have no issue. You threaten physical violence against anyone in any setting, and you are going to prison. You bleed over to threats of physical violence against law partners who have nothing to do with the case, you are going to prison. Based upon the reports in the story, the attorney put up with it for long enough. The more frightening thing is that these were acts of violence for months and it took MONTHS for anyone to take action.
We just saw what can happen when this type of behavior goes unchecked in a family case. I get it, not the same set of facts, but way too close for me.
Given that you, and the rest of us, have no knowledge of the facts, your opinion means very little.
I know the attorney, and that attorney has plenty of backbone, so eff off 11:57 a.m. commenter.
Have you read the emails? They are frightening.
@2:12 – Is there a way to read the emails? This type of behavior is becoming all too common in family law cases.
You can read the criminal complaint in Justice Court before the grand jury indictment came back. It is really not a close call on why this guy was charged.
How does one get online access to justice court criminal pleadings/filings like the EJDC portal?
Not the commenter, but I believe he is referring to the bindover packet that is filed in District Court that includes the Justice Court files or the Grand Jury Indictment. Those packets contain all the good stuff.
No I was referring if you have an account on Justice Court Portal that you can see and pull down all civil (and quite a bit of criminal) pleadings in Justice Court. Works very similar to Attorney Portal on the District Court side. Just search the bad guy’s name in Justice Court and the viewable pleadings pop up
Being that I personally know the attorney at the heart of the case, I can assure you that having too small of a backbone is not an issue. None of us attorneys, no matter how contentious the case is, deserves to be threatened like this.
If you really feel this strongly, include your name and email address next time you post.
Pretty soon you’ll just need to give a couple people a nice pat on the back and that’ll be enough to become a licensed attorney
Yes. It’s slowly turning to indentured servitude to the larger firms who will train like cpa firms. Always against the smaller firms bc larger firm partners control governing boards ie NSB, OBC, etc.
I’m all for adding an experiential component to bar passage, but to be honest 40-60 hours of practical experience seems way too low. A judicial extern can spend the better part of a week drafting a brief on a tricky legal issue (tricky for them that is; no judgement, we were all there once), and completing a handful of such real-world assignments can hardly serve as a stand-in for anything. Besides, who goes all the way through law school without getting any practical experience over 1L and 2L summers at minimum, to say nothing of externships during the academic year? Between summers, clinics, and a semester-long full-time externship plus contract clerk work while studying for the bar I probably had about a year of real-world experience by the time I graduated law school, and it wasn’t nearly enough to prepare me for what awaited. Any experiential requirement should be orders of magnitude longer than 40-60 hours.
Yes, the new bar 3 step process pretty much mirrors what it takes to get a real estate broker license. Take some classes, take a multiple guess test, and a short time in practice.
The new approach is so wrong. If you can stand a pun, it really lowers the bar for entry… and diminishes my license turning a profession into an occupation.
40 to 60 hours of supervised practice – absurd
I was lucky enough to get hired by a 50 plus attorney firm in downtown Los Angeles, occupying two floors of a high rise.
I was assigned to a mid-level attorney, whom I saw maybe 3 times in a week. I had 80 hours on the books before I knew where the copy machine, coffee machine and bath rooms were located. My first OJT was an assignment were to copy my attorney’s motion from another case for one of his cases. Oh, yes, I probably spent most of the first two weeks drafting interrogatories.
I’m very glad I’m past the halfway point of my legal career. The “fake it til you make it” path to admission will open the floodgates. I could start a business charging terrible law students to gain their experience working for me.
Glad there is a post about this new Next Gen bar exam for Nevada. What happened to one exam and your done? A 100 question multiple choice seems too easy. Suppose that is the point. Let’s pass everyone and make it easier. The premise of this new bar exam is troublesome. Professor Joan Howarth believes the bar exam is a discriminatory gate keeper against women and minorities. Has she seen that the majority of new lawyers, law grads and judges are women. So how is it discriminatory against them.. It is discriminatory–discriminatory against those who don’t know the law, can’t write and can’t analyze. The bar exam is the only mechanism that does that.
CPA’s have to do audit hours under firms. This gives them 100% total power over those who want to be CPA’s. That’s exactly what this is doing – it will be a short step to say it’s not 40 hrs or whatever but u have to work on large cases. If u don’t see the correlation ONLY large cpa firms do audits n coa candidates have to do bout a years worth of coa work n audit roughly. Same thing with student teaching. Fight the power, the nsb n the Obc.
That’s all fine and good except that it costs roughly $1000 a pop (took it twice, paid ~$1300 the first time and ~$950 the second time, so this is a rough estimate don’t you dare nitpick me). Hard for me to separate the self-righteous gatekeeping of NV law licenses from that small detail, especially when [insert generic gripe about the SBN annual conference being in New York City last year].
SBN needs to answer for that above all else. Go ahead and make me pass all the tests you want, but at least do me the courtesy of not charging me $150 to use my own computer (each time) while pretending the bar exam is about merit.
edit: this is in response to 3:32, to be clear. But yes fight the power!
I did a full year clerkship and a full year at a large firm in addition to a court internship. I think that was about right for me – 2.5 years of real world experience. Not 40 hours. I’ve crapped motions longer than that.
Experience
The ABA/SBN are talking about 40 – 60 hours of mentored training as sufficient, similar to what the medical profession requires. Really?
Total BS. After med school traditionally there is a 1 year internship, which is hands on. After that most MDs are residents under the supervision of an experience physician for anywhere from 2, 3 or 4 years.
I WANT to see a bar exam. I believe in setting an intellectual bar that keeps out those who are intellectually deficient. Discriminatory? HAH! I say. Every field is discriminatory. I’m a 5″ 4′ male. Guess what? I’m not going to play basketball professionally. Is that discriminatory? Different people have different talents and interests. Hopefully, their interests align with their talents. If you’re not intellectually talented enough to pass the exam, find something else to do with your life. You’ll be doing everybody a favor, most of all yourself. A difficult bar protects you from yourself. Remember that.
copy/paste what I said above because it bears repeating: That’s all fine and good except that it costs roughly $1000 a pop (took it twice, paid ~$1300 the first time and ~$950 the second time, so this is a rough estimate don’t you dare nitpick me). Hard for me to separate the self-righteous gatekeeping of NV law licenses from that small detail, especially when [insert generic gripe about the SBN annual conference being in New York City last year].
SBN needs to answer for that above all else. Go ahead and make me pass all the tests you want, but at least do me the courtesy of not charging me $150 to use my own computer (each time) while pretending the bar exam is about merit.
Can someone explain what the political slogan “offset the offseason” means?
I have no idea where that quote comes from, but to me it seems like a slogan designed to find ways to drive economic opportunities during traditionally slow or low revenue periods.
His website says he wants to diversify the economy for the slow parts of the year. Unfortunately he has no specific ideas and his signs make his look like an H.R Pufnstuf character.
“Yearly, Las Vegas Experiences an Offseason(June-August, and November-February). Las Vegas economy has become almost seasonal and unpredictable. Whenever inflation strikes, during and after any world financial or economical meltdown(2007) during and after a pandemic, Las Vegas always experiences more suffering than any other city in the nation.”
https://lasvegas.citycast.fm/mayoral-mondays/kola-akingbade-s-2024-city-cast-las-vegas-mayoral-questionnaire
US District Court Judge Larry Hicks dead. No condolences here. Just reporting the news.
Killed after being hit by a car one block from the courthouse. https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2024/05/29/us-district-court-judge-larry-hicks-killed-in-crash-in-reno/73902081007/