CCSD is going lean more on expulsions and single points of entry on campus to combat rising school violence. [TNI]
A Las Vegas woman, represented by a California attorney, filed a federal class-action suit against Tik Tok for exposure to graphic videos while working as a content moderator. [RJ]
A Las Vegas man is charged in a complex bitcoin scam that swindled a novice crypto trader. [RJ]
Unrelated but Bruce Willis just retired due to medical condition, probably my age but I had a lot of good times at his movies, sad to see. As a divorce lawyer I respect how he has kept a blended family that seems to work for them mostly
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March 30, 2022 4:55 pm
Yea. My law school (USD) did better than UNLV, barely.
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March 30, 2022 5:34 pm
Uh, law.dawg, I'd hide that link about the class action from poor ol' Quick Draw. 'cause I'm sure QDML has seen a thing or two trying to keep this blog clean. That lawsuit might provide some ideas.
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March 30, 2022 5:37 pm
Boyd sucks. I said it.
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March 30, 2022 5:50 pm
These law school rankings are something else. I am sorry but are they kididng me. Boyd is top 1/3?? Don't get me wrong–UNLV has done a great job in its first 20 years but to leap frog over so many others in the rankings??
Boyd has been ranked 60-80 or so for at least the last 15 years. I think the highest ranking they ever got was 58 in 2019.
It doesn't matter. You've got the rich, prestigious schools (Harvard, Yale). Then you've got really good schools in the next 25. Then you've got a bunch of also-rans, like Boyd. Then you've got 50 layers of unranked crap.
UNLV's bar passage rate is about 76%, yet the data specifically omits the passage rate for 1st time bar takers. Is that deliberate? All ABA school passage rate, which includes the likes of Cooley, is about 71%. How in the world did UNLV get a ranking in the 60s?
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March 30, 2022 5:55 pm
Client tells me they were pulled over recently for speeding (justified, they were speeding). After the officer writes the ticket, he tells client
"You can pay the fine, or call [Specific Lawyer's Office] and they'll handle it for you. Tell them you know my wife who works there and they'll take care of it"
That seems like an ethics violation brah. Not cool. Police and shitty lawyers involved in corruption, wish I could say this was even slightly shocking. Better yet, watch nothing happen to anyone involved.
I used to be down with the ACLU – that was until they decided to abandon their core values of "free speech". Now they will only advocate for free speech so long as it does not offend someone's feelings (how arbitrary btw)
What do you expect from the ACLU? Robert Langford is the president. Remember, he is in charge of the Las Vegas Justice Court. He personally offered tours of the justice court.
It's not just CCSD. Look at any large school district in the country. Go look at the school board meetings over the last 2 years. Crazy people show up with signs and guns, screaming and threatening people over CRT and masks. How do you think those people's kids are going to act when their parents run around acting like Karens on meth? So lil Jr shows up to school after his mommy and daddy led an armed protest at a school board member's house the weekend before and now lil Jr thinks he can intimidate everyone to get his way too.
12:26 is wrong and incredibly misinformed. As someone who watches the CCSD board meetings Thursday nights (mostly dreaming of a world where we actually have competent school leadership), I can tell you the attendees at the meetings are the same individuals every week and generally represent outliers in the community. As for how CCSD became so lax to violence, circa-2016 CCSD implemented its Progressive Discipline Plan ("PDP") in response to criticisms from within that it was expelling and suspending 6x as many African-American students as white students (note: there was also data released at the time that the discipline was proportional to violations).
The PDP promulgated a state-wide discipline procedure for all administrators – effectively categorizing rule violations into Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 offenses. Where the PDP failed, however, was how it fundamentally changed the way discipline was administered at schools. Previously, a student may have been caught cheating his freshman year, bringing cigarettes his sophomore year, and fighting his junior year. The school's administration could weigh all the violations and determine whether expulsion was warranted, or a lengthy suspension. Now, under the PDP, each "type" of violation is reviewed in a vacuum. That is to say, if the same student was caught cheating his freshman year and later caught bringing cigarettes – when the administration looks to PDP for the warranted discipline – the cheating is not considered under the PDP and possession of cigarettes is considered a "first offense" (until the student brings cigarettes again).
Alas, since this system has been implemented, students have caught on. As reported by various teachers and administrators, students are aware they can fight once or twice before receiving major discipline. The same student can also verbally assault a teacher, because that is considered a separate offense.
All of this is a much-too-long answer just to say CCSD messed up when it implemented the Progressive Discipline Plan and took the disciplinary authority out of its administrators' hands (ya know, the people that are actually in the schools and see/work with these kids every day).
I have a friend who is a middle school teacher. Student with special needs reported to someone in the office that there was a gun in the trash can in the girl's restroom. The administration did nothing. The Student disclosed this to my friend. She went to the girl's restroom. Sure enough, a loaded firearm was in the trash can.
I have no idea what the answer is. However, some schools in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles have metal detectors and require students to carry clear bags and backpacks only.
I am glad I have school aged children. They make my day better when I get home from work. Might be forced to retire the minute my school aged children leave the nest.
Wow. For a law blog, folks sure don't read. 12:26 here. Not only was my comment specifically NOT about just CCSD, but I didn't even reference the CCSD school board meetings. My comment was about how badly the behavior has gotten generally. How can we expect children to behave and not be violent when their parents act like maniacs? It's not just a CCSD problem. It is a nationwide problem. CRT and masks were just examples…not the sole issues. Before that it was immigrants and school shootings and police brutality and children being trafficked in a pizza shop. There is always an issue for people to act like jerks over. My whole point was when our population is so divided and you have grown ass adults acting like wild animals, you can't really expect their children to act any better.
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March 30, 2022 9:27 pm
So, according to 1226, violence in CCSD only started in the last 2 years due to CRT and masks. He/she/they/ze is either truly misinformed or trying to make a very unconvincing political statement.
2:27 where did 12:26 say violence in CCSD "only started in the last 2 years"? While I certainly haven't researched any statistics, it does seem to have ratcheted up a notch in the past couple of years, which coincides with the increase in behaviors by adults across the country (not just at CCSD) behaving like idiots at public meetings, harassing politicians at their homes, plotting to kidnap a governor, etc.
The post specifically attempts to correlate violence and school board meetings. The poster said 2 years. Zero mention of the fact schools have gone downhill long, long before that, yet the poster desperately tries to turn it into a right wing political issue.
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March 30, 2022 10:52 pm
Sean Tanko is the new Probate Commissioner. Clearly the right choice. He's going to do a good job. He's got a lot of work ahead of him with the backlog.
Good, maybe he can start knocking some heads together in administration to realize that they need more funding so they can catch up on the backlog. The backlog is presently about 11 weeks before filing and hearing, but that needs to be cut AT LEAST in half to be anywhere near reasonable.
The last probate commissioner (and Judge Sturman) simply ignored the backlog or acted handicapped when it came to maturely dealing with it. Let's hope that changes.
The last probate commissioner was a eunuch when it came to Court Administration and nasty to counsel who he did not consider part of the club. Not sure why he was lauded on the way out of the door for doing such a crummy job other than that probate firms like the backlog because it keeps cases open longer for more billing.
How does a backlog equate to more billing? A backlog just means longer waits for a hearing, not additional items to do before the probate case is finished. My clients aren't thrilled when I tell that there's a 2-3 month wait for a hearing for final distribution, but they understand there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm certainly not going to do anything during that wait that I wouldn't have done anyway to wrap up the case, so I don't understand the claim for "more billing."
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March 30, 2022 11:02 pm
Recommendations for transactional/tax firms in town?
Is this for estate stuff? Selling the company? Normal operational stuff? High dollar or low dollar client (important either way, but complexity and stuff shifts the recommendations)
Unrelated but Bruce Willis just retired due to medical condition, probably my age but I had a lot of good times at his movies, sad to see. As a divorce lawyer I respect how he has kept a blended family that seems to work for them mostly
Yea. My law school (USD) did better than UNLV, barely.
Uh, law.dawg, I'd hide that link about the class action from poor ol' Quick Draw. 'cause I'm sure QDML has seen a thing or two trying to keep this blog clean. That lawsuit might provide some ideas.
Boyd sucks. I said it.
These law school rankings are something else. I am sorry but are they kididng me. Boyd is top 1/3?? Don't get me wrong–UNLV has done a great job in its first 20 years but to leap frog over so many others in the rankings??
Does anyone know the bar passage rate for UNLV grads?
https://law.unlv.edu/about/accreditation
Most recent available report:
https://law.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/BarPassage.pdf
Boyd has been ranked 60-80 or so for at least the last 15 years. I think the highest ranking they ever got was 58 in 2019.
It doesn't matter. You've got the rich, prestigious schools (Harvard, Yale). Then you've got really good schools in the next 25. Then you've got a bunch of also-rans, like Boyd. Then you've got 50 layers of unranked crap.
And then you've got Cooley.
UNLV's bar passage rate is about 76%, yet the data specifically omits the passage rate for 1st time bar takers. Is that deliberate? All ABA school passage rate, which includes the likes of Cooley, is about 71%. How in the world did UNLV get a ranking in the 60s?
Client tells me they were pulled over recently for speeding (justified, they were speeding). After the officer writes the ticket, he tells client
"You can pay the fine, or call [Specific Lawyer's Office] and they'll handle it for you. Tell them you know my wife who works there and they'll take care of it"
Doesn't smell right!
That seems like an ethics violation brah. Not cool. Police and shitty lawyers involved in corruption, wish I could say this was even slightly shocking. Better yet, watch nothing happen to anyone involved.
ACLU has an app that automatically records as soon as it's opened. Everyone should just record the cops…every single time.
@ 12:26 very based. Did not know about that but will download.
I used to be down with the ACLU – that was until they decided to abandon their core values of "free speech". Now they will only advocate for free speech so long as it does not offend someone's feelings (how arbitrary btw)
ACLU is a joke. All they care about is what cases Lisa Rasmussen wants to take, voter rights and CCSD beatings. Shameful.
What do you expect from the ACLU? Robert Langford is the president. Remember, he is in charge of the Las Vegas Justice Court. He personally offered tours of the justice court.
Your client may wish to consider filing a complaint on that officer with LVMPD Internal Affairs and/or the Citizen Review Board.
Bill board lawyer?
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
What is the history on how CCSD became so lax as to violence? I hear rumors, but I haven't seen anything from a reputable media outlet.
It's not just CCSD. Look at any large school district in the country. Go look at the school board meetings over the last 2 years. Crazy people show up with signs and guns, screaming and threatening people over CRT and masks. How do you think those people's kids are going to act when their parents run around acting like Karens on meth? So lil Jr shows up to school after his mommy and daddy led an armed protest at a school board member's house the weekend before and now lil Jr thinks he can intimidate everyone to get his way too.
12:26 is wrong and incredibly misinformed. As someone who watches the CCSD board meetings Thursday nights (mostly dreaming of a world where we actually have competent school leadership), I can tell you the attendees at the meetings are the same individuals every week and generally represent outliers in the community. As for how CCSD became so lax to violence, circa-2016 CCSD implemented its Progressive Discipline Plan ("PDP") in response to criticisms from within that it was expelling and suspending 6x as many African-American students as white students (note: there was also data released at the time that the discipline was proportional to violations).
The PDP promulgated a state-wide discipline procedure for all administrators – effectively categorizing rule violations into Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 offenses. Where the PDP failed, however, was how it fundamentally changed the way discipline was administered at schools. Previously, a student may have been caught cheating his freshman year, bringing cigarettes his sophomore year, and fighting his junior year. The school's administration could weigh all the violations and determine whether expulsion was warranted, or a lengthy suspension. Now, under the PDP, each "type" of violation is reviewed in a vacuum. That is to say, if the same student was caught cheating his freshman year and later caught bringing cigarettes – when the administration looks to PDP for the warranted discipline – the cheating is not considered under the PDP and possession of cigarettes is considered a "first offense" (until the student brings cigarettes again).
Alas, since this system has been implemented, students have caught on. As reported by various teachers and administrators, students are aware they can fight once or twice before receiving major discipline. The same student can also verbally assault a teacher, because that is considered a separate offense.
All of this is a much-too-long answer just to say CCSD messed up when it implemented the Progressive Discipline Plan and took the disciplinary authority out of its administrators' hands (ya know, the people that are actually in the schools and see/work with these kids every day).
I have a friend who is a middle school teacher. Student with special needs reported to someone in the office that there was a gun in the trash can in the girl's restroom. The administration did nothing. The Student disclosed this to my friend. She went to the girl's restroom. Sure enough, a loaded firearm was in the trash can.
I have no idea what the answer is. However, some schools in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles have metal detectors and require students to carry clear bags and backpacks only.
So glad I do not have school aged children.
I am glad I have school aged children. They make my day better when I get home from work. Might be forced to retire the minute my school aged children leave the nest.
Wow. For a law blog, folks sure don't read. 12:26 here. Not only was my comment specifically NOT about just CCSD, but I didn't even reference the CCSD school board meetings. My comment was about how badly the behavior has gotten generally. How can we expect children to behave and not be violent when their parents act like maniacs? It's not just a CCSD problem. It is a nationwide problem. CRT and masks were just examples…not the sole issues. Before that it was immigrants and school shootings and police brutality and children being trafficked in a pizza shop. There is always an issue for people to act like jerks over. My whole point was when our population is so divided and you have grown ass adults acting like wild animals, you can't really expect their children to act any better.
So, according to 1226, violence in CCSD only started in the last 2 years due to CRT and masks. He/she/they/ze is either truly misinformed or trying to make a very unconvincing political statement.
2:27 where did 12:26 say violence in CCSD "only started in the last 2 years"? While I certainly haven't researched any statistics, it does seem to have ratcheted up a notch in the past couple of years, which coincides with the increase in behaviors by adults across the country (not just at CCSD) behaving like idiots at public meetings, harassing politicians at their homes, plotting to kidnap a governor, etc.
The post specifically attempts to correlate violence and school board meetings. The poster said 2 years. Zero mention of the fact schools have gone downhill long, long before that, yet the poster desperately tries to turn it into a right wing political issue.
Sean Tanko is the new Probate Commissioner. Clearly the right choice. He's going to do a good job. He's got a lot of work ahead of him with the backlog.
Good, maybe he can start knocking some heads together in administration to realize that they need more funding so they can catch up on the backlog. The backlog is presently about 11 weeks before filing and hearing, but that needs to be cut AT LEAST in half to be anywhere near reasonable.
The last probate commissioner (and Judge Sturman) simply ignored the backlog or acted handicapped when it came to maturely dealing with it. Let's hope that changes.
The last probate commissioner was a eunuch when it came to Court Administration and nasty to counsel who he did not consider part of the club. Not sure why he was lauded on the way out of the door for doing such a crummy job other than that probate firms like the backlog because it keeps cases open longer for more billing.
How does a backlog equate to more billing? A backlog just means longer waits for a hearing, not additional items to do before the probate case is finished. My clients aren't thrilled when I tell that there's a 2-3 month wait for a hearing for final distribution, but they understand there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm certainly not going to do anything during that wait that I wouldn't have done anyway to wrap up the case, so I don't understand the claim for "more billing."
Recommendations for transactional/tax firms in town?
Is this for estate stuff? Selling the company? Normal operational stuff? High dollar or low dollar client (important either way, but complexity and stuff shifts the recommendations)
Higher dollar, tech/software, formation/ongoing operational stuff (thank you!)
Not Snell Wilmer
Jeffrey Burr?
Holley Driggs.
Alan Sklar's firm.