Results are trickling in and remember that it could take a few days before they are finalized, but here is the link to Clark County election results and statewide election results. What are you seeing? Anything surprising to you?
Judge Boulware denied a church’s request for an injunction regarding the 50-person cap on attendance. [Las Vegas Sun]
The State of Washington is sunsetting its limited license program for non lawyers. [ABA Journal]
Time to sign up if you’re interested in being a Las Vegas Justice Court pro-tempore judge. [Clark County Bar]
Or if you want to be a Muni Court alternate judge. [Clark County Bar]
I am delighted that William "Bill" Kephart did not break 50%. Pleasantly surprised, actually. I fully expected him to blow past 60% given that he is an incumbent, had more money, is well-liked and has name recognition.
I don't want to get my hopes up, but perhaps the mood of the country coupled with his sordid history will cause him to lose. I wish he had a stronger opponent than Crystal Eller. Still, I am going to give her money and encourage everyone I know to vote for her.
Reforming the criminal justice system means removing people like Bill Kephart from power.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 5:11 pm
Family Court Judge Rena Hughes might not survive the primary election for her race to keep her seat in Department J. I hope she does but who knows.
You hope that Rena Hughes survives the primary election and stays judge? Have you ever actually had her in any of your client's cases? Holy crap – one of the worst judges I've ever been in front of.
I've been in front of her many times. She is not anywhere near one of the worst judges. She's well prepared and knows the law. It is unfortunate, but it looks like she will not survive the primary. Chalk one up to our uneducated electorate and he who shall not be named and his band of merry idiots.
I had one case before Rena Hughes. It was not particularly hostile, and I did not witness anything improper by Judge Hughes. I found her to be a decent judge.
She has substantial family law experience but, because she isn't doing much, you rarely hear her pedigree. Maybe that will change with the race results.
Maybe she's doing what a lot of other perennial candidates are doing – using other people's donated money to advertise acting as if she had a chance becoming a judge, with the sole reason to increase her name recognition.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 6:03 pm
Pleasant surprise: Carli looked good, great position to be in.
Unpleasant surprise: Caesar man what happened??
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 6:08 pm
So if Voy doesn't reach 50%, he'll be running against his sister-in-law?
No dropping out. She is stuck there till the end. She can then decline the position if she wins. Should she be elected and then declines, then someone will be appointed.
No she will not drop out. But she will run zero campaign, raise $0 and put forth $0 effort. She will roll over. And that is all that Voy wanted. Few people may remember that Voy ran for the District Court Department 10 when Jessie Walsh got elected.
That was the family plan all along. Voy was tipped off he was getting an opponent (a la court employee) and his wife and or him had Cheryl waiting in the wings (ha ha Wingate). Sure would be nice if one or the other of them was honest. Cheryl has refused all interviews and failed to return calls from reporters. Both of them should be made accountable.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 7:05 pm
Voy is surely going to be getting some ethics complaints as well as his sister-in-law. I cannot imagine that everybody is going to look the other way. Judges have a duty to report other judges and lawyers.
The public needs to know that if they pay off Voy’s campaign debt, he could use the money to defend himself against any ethics compliant. Seems backwards, but unethical judiciary get to use campaign money to defend their bad and unethical deeds.
It is unfathomable a person that did nothing but put a name on a ballot gets a decent showing. Goes to show how uninformed the average voter is in Clark County, especially in judicial races.
Voy isn’t going to be happy in his position for long. Chief Bell is keeping an eye on him, and she has assigned him to a part docket of abuse and neglect. In other words, he cannot just be missing from the courthouse and profess that he is working on “outside” needs that take him away from the bench. Being in the juvenile arena has allowed him to remain unseen by the other judges, attorneys and public. The confidentiality of juvenile cases was a shield for him. If anybody remembers when he used to do a regular domestic docket, he would make people stay late at court in hopes of the cases being settled.
There is so much more to the Voy/Wingate story, but the press was uninterested because, in my opinion, Dave Thomas got to almost everybody, including the Republican Club. Voy is a Dem, at least temporarily. Somebody represented to the Republican Club that there were no Republicans in the race, which is not true. The Republican Club acknowledged its mistake, but too far into the process to make any changes. Somebody needs to do an investigative piece on Thomas and see how far his influence goes. Until there are fair and transparent campaign rules, it seems that one can buy his or her way onto the Eighth Judicial District Court.
While the familial ticket seem shady to me. I disagree with your analysis that "[I]t is unfathomable a person that did nothing but put a name on a ballot gets a decent showing. Goes to show how uninformed the average voter is in Clark County, especially in judicial races." Informed voters in Nevada would have looked and seen that Nathan already was on the bench and had a checkered, unfavorable tenure. People who voted for Wingate effectively cast a "None of the Above" vote.
12:05. I don't think it can result in a successful ethics complaint as it is an off-beat type of unique situation that would be difficult to pigeon hole into any specific rule violations. It is not some conflict of interest with attorneys or parties, not ex parte, it is not taking money, it is not acting out in public in some very inappropriate way such as getting arrested, etc.
They would have to charge it under some catch-all,general rule, such as undignified conduct unbecoming to the judiciary or something like that.
And, even then, the dots would need to be directly connected to him. It cannot be "come one, everyone with common sense knows he must have recruited his sister-in-law."
It will just be very, very difficult, even though at first blush it might appear to be something that merits investigation.
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"The Gipper"
June 10, 2020 7:20 pm
New name for Las Vegas:
1. North Brownsville
2. West Albuquerque
3. East Riverside
Who ya got?
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 7:32 pm
I don't get it. 'Splain
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anonymous
June 10, 2020 7:51 pm
Candidates who I thought would have had a stronger showing (not necessarily finishing first, just doing better than apparently will be the case):
I was really surprised Ozzie Fumo did not have a stronger showing. I thought that his political career would have provided for more exposure/name recognition.
12:51. I'll give you at least three out of four. I may not have necessarily expected Blair Parker to do dramatically better than the results,but perhaps most people did, so you could possibly be four out of four.
As for Fumo, I expected him to be a bit closer to Herndon, but still expected that he would be trailing.
But I am just as stunned as you about Bohn and Almase. It went well-beyond them performing below expectations. They performed abysmally.
And even more surprising considering both made a real effort–decent fundraising, a lot of signage, participating in all available endorsement interviews, etc.
If I am Mickey, I would be pissed at my campaign manager for telling me to switch parties from Republican to Democrat, therefore costing me the Republican endorsements in a party with five Democrats splitting the Democrat vote.
My underperformers:
–> Scotti in 2 (although I suspect he comes back in the General)
–> Aurbach not blowing away the field in 4
–> Coffing not blowing away the field in 4
–> All Non-Incumbents in 15
–> Sweetin in 23 (DA's flopped while PD's outperformed)
–> Bohn boning it. Seriously you finished 4th to Erika Ballou? This was the biggest one where someone should get their money back from their campaign manager.
–> Jack Fleeman really underperforming in Dept V
The general public, for the most part, votes blindly in these judicial races.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 7:52 pm
Crystal Eller, From on or around 2015 to 2016, was involved with a company called Prodigy Fulfillment Center, a mortgage rescue service ("Prodigy"), that illegally and fraudulently induced people that were in foreclosure to buy "forensic Loan audits" aka "securitization Audits" for $6,000 to $8,000. Prodigy promised these desperate people they could get their homes for free via quiet title if the title / paper trail showed anomalies in the title such as the deed separate from the note or some other BS violation regarding asset backed securites, which occurred frequently since the crash of 2008 due to the asset backed securities and MERS/Robosigning.
However courts in all states have overturned any quiet titles granted since 2009 to present because basically as the banks appealed and argued if the title is compromised the homeowner does not have standing and cannot get the house for free. Prodigy was able to fraudulently induce these upfront fees from the victims because they circumvented the law and sold this audit under the loophole "legal services" which is exempt from the restriction of obtaining upfront fees. This is fraud and illegal according the Dodd Frank MARS rule – Class D Felony. Prodigy sold as part of this illegal package "legal review" of the audits. Crystal Eller was the "Legal Review". Crystal knew this was fraud and the people were victims and even elderly people were defrauded. She allowed her legal services to be sold by non attorneys and because these securitization audits were fraud they had no evidentiary value nor served any evidentiary or remedial purpose in a court or the existing homeowner/victim's foreclosure. So Crystal gave the victims BS story that the courts allowed the foreclosing lender to "cure" any defects in this fraudulent securitization audit. Crystal then directly solicited to the victims her services for loan mods and asked for more upfront fees, even to clients that were out of state – where she is not licensed as an attorney. Another class D felony. Prodigy Fulfillment was then contracted Crystal Eller Law as the "paralegals" to facilitate these loan mods and Crystal split the fees. Crystal did NOT tell her new "clients" they were defrauded by Prodigy. This is all documented and was given to the attorney general in 2016 but the amount of fraud / damages was small in comparison to other large consumer fraud cases the AG deals with and many of the victims were from other states. The attorney general cannot take every case which comes to them. There is a bar complaint that is being filed. Crystal Eller is no way qualified to be a judge.
An iteration of 12:52's comment has popped up on this blog whenever William "Bill" Kephart's history is mentioned or discussed. It would be mighty interesting to find out who is authoring these comments. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm………
12:52–that type of info. will only hurt her if Judge Kephart, who has a comfortable lead, suddenly gets real stupid and rather than just spending money to continue to support his lead and maintain his name recognition, decides to put that money into going negative against an opponent who is trailing him badly.
It's certainly not something that will attract much free media attention. It's too compact, detailed, has too many moving parts, an too much built-in plausible deniability(e.g., something like"I was just trying to help desperate consumers in a time of need, It didn't always work out."), and has resulted in no clear finding of wrong doing, and has not even apparently been approved for any investigation and/or prosecution.
So, 12:52 may think this was a bad situation(and perhaps it was), but it is just way too premature to make an issue out of it.
Kephart has good political instincts(he is a much better candidate/politician than he is a judge, IMO).
He is not going to say "even though I have a very large 20% or 25% lead over this person, I think I'll waste my campaign money trashing her over something totally confusing to voters that she may never become officially accountable for."
No, he will instead use the money to continue to promote his name and protect his lead.
Very good point the bar complaint will be filed for the ethical reasons that Crystal Eller does not have the character of fitness to be an attorney let alone a judge. How the chips fall is not really in the objective. Rule 8.3 of the professional rules mandate that an attorney SHALL report a crime that is being committed by another attorney. This matter was given to the attorney general in late 2015. The AG office cannot investigate everything so no digs against them at all. Nevada Bar allows 7 years to report a complaint/ file a bar complaint. They will investigate it and to your point of the details and moving parts, you are very correct. Media and public attention span is very short. But our profession does have to police our own. Whatever happens happens. Also I know this is abstract but there is no such thing as plausible deniability in this case. Compare Stealing from one person to feed a hungry family. Crystal Eller knew the securitization audits were fraud and she knew her clients were victims. There is evidence of her admissions of that. And even if she did not, she should have known. Attorneys are held to a higher standard and we have to zealously advocate for our clients. Knowing your own client was a victim of a fraud and you use that fraud as a pretext to solicit to them and not tell them or give them an opportunity to report a crime is not zealously advocating. These acts that Crystal Eller are alleged to have done consist of professional misconduct and criminal acts. there is much overlap.
I read what 12:52 and 3:56 wrote and I'm afraid I have to agree with 3:24 in that it may be really bad, but it is not an effective political issue unless it results in discipline or a conviction. That way the theme can be: this candidate was convicted of this crime and/or disciplined for this or that.
That would be something short and effective that voters can get a grip on. But arguing, instead, that these agencies had the complaints for years, and should have acted because all this was bad, and then a discussion really getting into the weeds and the minutae, would just confuse and bore the voters.
Now, 3:56 says that the legacy of something like this goes well beyond an individual election, and perhaps. We will see. We do need to discipline our own when merited, but such is not always the case. Some escape discipline that they deserved, while others get punished disproportionately and too harshly.
4:27 point very well stated. We will see how the Nevada Bar and Florida Bar investigate. We cannot allow ourselves to be suppressed or inhibited from speaking the truth because the "system" is not perfect.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 8:06 pm
I'm not real familiar with the local republican party but I was really surprised by the Rodimer/Schwartz result. I thought Schwartz was decently respected from his Treasurer run.
Schwartz made the mistake once of talking about raising taxes. Rodimer is a fresh face, Trumper, who is likeable. He went to law school in Florida and wrestled briefly in the WWE. He actually called me on my home phone as part of his campaigning and talked to me for like 20 minutes. He's a good politician. And he also was going by Big Dan to differentiate his 6/7 self from "little" Dan Schwartz. So, not a surprise to me he did well. Going against Susie Lee is a different story…
What 1:34 said – Rodimer reached out to me personally and I began to research him and quickly became a supporter. I listened to the negative campaign against him by Schwartz and then did some research and it wasn't supported at all – sleezy smear campaign but Susie Lee will turn it up so he's going to have to be prepared. I'm going all in this election – for a first time – donating as much money as we can to Dan and will be campaigning for him. Susie has to go. District 3 might be an easier flip.
Dan Schwarz was in political no-mans land. A Republican despised by the party as being beyond a RINO, sleezy attack ads that were run against him and also someone who tangled mightily inside of the Party. Schwartz would have been a more formidable candidate against Susie Lee. Being a "Trumper" in that district is like being the patsy in WWE. Rodimer will get eaten alive.
I always thought Schwartz was a pretty far right R. Funny how the fiscal realities of actually being in the position of running the gov can change a person's views.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2020 8:22 pm
Off topic, but where are those of us looking for attorney jobs checking for postings? My firm is hiring, and, as a new firm, we are evaluating where we should post a job description. It costs a chunk of change to post jobs on some of these sites (looking at you, NVBar), which is fine if it is one that is actually visited by qualified folks.
I am delighted that William "Bill" Kephart did not break 50%. Pleasantly surprised, actually. I fully expected him to blow past 60% given that he is an incumbent, had more money, is well-liked and has name recognition.
I don't want to get my hopes up, but perhaps the mood of the country coupled with his sordid history will cause him to lose. I wish he had a stronger opponent than Crystal Eller. Still, I am going to give her money and encourage everyone I know to vote for her.
Reforming the criminal justice system means removing people like Bill Kephart from power.
Family Court Judge Rena Hughes might not survive the primary election for her race to keep her seat in Department J. I hope she does but who knows.
You hope that Rena Hughes survives the primary election and stays judge? Have you ever actually had her in any of your client's cases? Holy crap – one of the worst judges I've ever been in front of.
I've been in front of her many times. She is not anywhere near one of the worst judges. She's well prepared and knows the law. It is unfortunate, but it looks like she will not survive the primary. Chalk one up to our uneducated electorate and he who shall not be named and his band of merry idiots.
10:39 is right. By no means a bad judge. But there was a perfect storm against her which she did not survive.
First, that controversy with the Judicial Commission did her no good.
Secondly, two fairly strong opponents, attracted to the race in no
small part based on the controversy, signed up against her.
And third, she apparently read the writing on the wall and decided it was best not to spend much money or make a great effort.
to 10:39: I have read other oblique references to Sansome on this blog. Is there a reason why he can't be named?
I had one case before Rena Hughes. It was not particularly hostile, and I did not witness anything improper by Judge Hughes. I found her to be a decent judge.
3:29: because he has a tracker and when he's mentioned, we get wacky posts from him.
Mentioning him give his credence and more power. He starts more nonsense at the expense of his “donors.”
Who is Michelle Tobler? Does she even handle family law matters?
No. She doesn't. I have no idea why she is even running.
She has substantial family law experience but, because she isn't doing much, you rarely hear her pedigree. Maybe that will change with the race results.
Michelle Tobler has little to zero family law experience. You should not deceive voters.
Maybe she's doing what a lot of other perennial candidates are doing – using other people's donated money to advertise acting as if she had a chance becoming a judge, with the sole reason to increase her name recognition.
Pleasant surprise: Carli looked good, great position to be in.
Unpleasant surprise: Caesar man what happened??
So if Voy doesn't reach 50%, he'll be running against his sister-in-law?
Hilarious. Someone should start a PAC and campaign for her so she beats him and wins. lol
Wingate is mysteriously drop out and Voy walks through.
No dropping out. She is stuck there till the end. She can then decline the position if she wins. Should she be elected and then declines, then someone will be appointed.
No she will not drop out. But she will run zero campaign, raise $0 and put forth $0 effort. She will roll over. And that is all that Voy wanted. Few people may remember that Voy ran for the District Court Department 10 when Jessie Walsh got elected.
That was the family plan all along. Voy was tipped off he was getting an opponent (a la court employee) and his wife and or him had Cheryl waiting in the wings (ha ha Wingate). Sure would be nice if one or the other of them was honest. Cheryl has refused all interviews and failed to return calls from reporters. Both of them should be made accountable.
Voy is surely going to be getting some ethics complaints as well as his sister-in-law. I cannot imagine that everybody is going to look the other way. Judges have a duty to report other judges and lawyers.
The public needs to know that if they pay off Voy’s campaign debt, he could use the money to defend himself against any ethics compliant. Seems backwards, but unethical judiciary get to use campaign money to defend their bad and unethical deeds.
It is unfathomable a person that did nothing but put a name on a ballot gets a decent showing. Goes to show how uninformed the average voter is in Clark County, especially in judicial races.
Voy isn’t going to be happy in his position for long. Chief Bell is keeping an eye on him, and she has assigned him to a part docket of abuse and neglect. In other words, he cannot just be missing from the courthouse and profess that he is working on “outside” needs that take him away from the bench. Being in the juvenile arena has allowed him to remain unseen by the other judges, attorneys and public. The confidentiality of juvenile cases was a shield for him. If anybody remembers when he used to do a regular domestic docket, he would make people stay late at court in hopes of the cases being settled.
There is so much more to the Voy/Wingate story, but the press was uninterested because, in my opinion, Dave Thomas got to almost everybody, including the Republican Club. Voy is a Dem, at least temporarily. Somebody represented to the Republican Club that there were no Republicans in the race, which is not true. The Republican Club acknowledged its mistake, but too far into the process to make any changes. Somebody needs to do an investigative piece on Thomas and see how far his influence goes. Until there are fair and transparent campaign rules, it seems that one can buy his or her way onto the Eighth Judicial District Court.
While the familial ticket seem shady to me. I disagree with your analysis that "[I]t is unfathomable a person that did nothing but put a name on a ballot gets a decent showing. Goes to show how uninformed the average voter is in Clark County, especially in judicial races." Informed voters in Nevada would have looked and seen that Nathan already was on the bench and had a checkered, unfavorable tenure. People who voted for Wingate effectively cast a "None of the Above" vote.
12:05. I don't think it can result in a successful ethics complaint as it is an off-beat type of unique situation that would be difficult to pigeon hole into any specific rule violations. It is not some conflict of interest with attorneys or parties, not ex parte, it is not taking money, it is not acting out in public in some very inappropriate way such as getting arrested, etc.
They would have to charge it under some catch-all,general rule, such as undignified conduct unbecoming to the judiciary or something like that.
And, even then, the dots would need to be directly connected to him. It cannot be "come one, everyone with common sense knows he must have recruited his sister-in-law."
It will just be very, very difficult, even though at first blush it might appear to be something that merits investigation.
New name for Las Vegas:
1. North Brownsville
2. West Albuquerque
3. East Riverside
Who ya got?
I don't get it. 'Splain
Candidates who I thought would have had a stronger showing (not necessarily finishing first, just doing better than apparently will be the case):
Micky Bohn
Cesar Almase
Blair Parker
Ozzie Fumo
OK, come at me.
I was really surprised Ozzie Fumo did not have a stronger showing. I thought that his political career would have provided for more exposure/name recognition.
12:51. I'll give you at least three out of four. I may not have necessarily expected Blair Parker to do dramatically better than the results,but perhaps most people did, so you could possibly be four out of four.
As for Fumo, I expected him to be a bit closer to Herndon, but still expected that he would be trailing.
But I am just as stunned as you about Bohn and Almase. It went well-beyond them performing below expectations. They performed abysmally.
And even more surprising considering both made a real effort–decent fundraising, a lot of signage, participating in all available endorsement interviews, etc.
If I am Micky I would be pissed. I think that the Republican club flyer could have been a game changer.
If I am Mickey, I would be pissed at my campaign manager for telling me to switch parties from Republican to Democrat, therefore costing me the Republican endorsements in a party with five Democrats splitting the Democrat vote.
It was his God awful videos and always wearing those t-shirts in his videos. This what you do at "home depot" video.
My underperformers:
–> Scotti in 2 (although I suspect he comes back in the General)
–> Aurbach not blowing away the field in 4
–> Coffing not blowing away the field in 4
–> All Non-Incumbents in 15
–> Sweetin in 23 (DA's flopped while PD's outperformed)
–> Bohn boning it. Seriously you finished 4th to Erika Ballou? This was the biggest one where someone should get their money back from their campaign manager.
–> Jack Fleeman really underperforming in Dept V
The general public, for the most part, votes blindly in these judicial races.
Crystal Eller, From on or around 2015 to 2016, was involved with a company called Prodigy Fulfillment Center, a mortgage rescue service ("Prodigy"), that illegally and fraudulently induced people that were in foreclosure to buy "forensic Loan audits" aka "securitization Audits" for $6,000 to $8,000. Prodigy promised these desperate people they could get their homes for free via quiet title if the title / paper trail showed anomalies in the title such as the deed separate from the note or some other BS violation regarding asset backed securites, which occurred frequently since the crash of 2008 due to the asset backed securities and MERS/Robosigning.
However courts in all states have overturned any quiet titles granted since 2009 to present because basically as the banks appealed and argued if the title is compromised the homeowner does not have standing and cannot get the house for free. Prodigy was able to fraudulently induce these upfront fees from the victims because they circumvented the law and sold this audit under the loophole "legal services" which is exempt from the restriction of obtaining upfront fees. This is fraud and illegal according the Dodd Frank MARS rule – Class D Felony. Prodigy sold as part of this illegal package "legal review" of the audits. Crystal Eller was the "Legal Review". Crystal knew this was fraud and the people were victims and even elderly people were defrauded. She allowed her legal services to be sold by non attorneys and because these securitization audits were fraud they had no evidentiary value nor served any evidentiary or remedial purpose in a court or the existing homeowner/victim's foreclosure. So Crystal gave the victims BS story that the courts allowed the foreclosing lender to "cure" any defects in this fraudulent securitization audit. Crystal then directly solicited to the victims her services for loan mods and asked for more upfront fees, even to clients that were out of state – where she is not licensed as an attorney. Another class D felony. Prodigy Fulfillment was then contracted Crystal Eller Law as the "paralegals" to facilitate these loan mods and Crystal split the fees. Crystal did NOT tell her new "clients" they were defrauded by Prodigy. This is all documented and was given to the attorney general in 2016 but the amount of fraud / damages was small in comparison to other large consumer fraud cases the AG deals with and many of the victims were from other states. The attorney general cannot take every case which comes to them. There is a bar complaint that is being filed. Crystal Eller is no way qualified to be a judge.
Yeah, well, that's all interesting, but did she suppress evidence to keep an innocent man in prison for 28 years?
I understand your point. It should not be a lesser of two evils. We have to do better in the legal profession and judiciary.
An iteration of 12:52's comment has popped up on this blog whenever William "Bill" Kephart's history is mentioned or discussed. It would be mighty interesting to find out who is authoring these comments. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm………
12:52–that type of info. will only hurt her if Judge Kephart, who has a comfortable lead, suddenly gets real stupid and rather than just spending money to continue to support his lead and maintain his name recognition, decides to put that money into going negative against an opponent who is trailing him badly.
It's certainly not something that will attract much free media attention. It's too compact, detailed, has too many moving parts, an too much built-in plausible deniability(e.g., something like"I was just trying to help desperate consumers in a time of need, It didn't always work out."), and has resulted in no clear finding of wrong doing, and has not even apparently been approved for any investigation and/or prosecution.
So, 12:52 may think this was a bad situation(and perhaps it was), but it is just way too premature to make an issue out of it.
Kephart has good political instincts(he is a much better candidate/politician than he is a judge, IMO).
He is not going to say "even though I have a very large 20% or 25% lead over this person, I think I'll waste my campaign money trashing her over something totally confusing to voters that she may never become officially accountable for."
No, he will instead use the money to continue to promote his name and protect his lead.
Very good point the bar complaint will be filed for the ethical reasons that Crystal Eller does not have the character of fitness to be an attorney let alone a judge. How the chips fall is not really in the objective. Rule 8.3 of the professional rules mandate that an attorney SHALL report a crime that is being committed by another attorney. This matter was given to the attorney general in late 2015. The AG office cannot investigate everything so no digs against them at all. Nevada Bar allows 7 years to report a complaint/ file a bar complaint. They will investigate it and to your point of the details and moving parts, you are very correct. Media and public attention span is very short. But our profession does have to police our own. Whatever happens happens. Also I know this is abstract but there is no such thing as plausible deniability in this case. Compare Stealing from one person to feed a hungry family. Crystal Eller knew the securitization audits were fraud and she knew her clients were victims. There is evidence of her admissions of that. And even if she did not, she should have known. Attorneys are held to a higher standard and we have to zealously advocate for our clients. Knowing your own client was a victim of a fraud and you use that fraud as a pretext to solicit to them and not tell them or give them an opportunity to report a crime is not zealously advocating. These acts that Crystal Eller are alleged to have done consist of professional misconduct and criminal acts. there is much overlap.
Elssa Cadish allowed robosigning in her court.
I read what 12:52 and 3:56 wrote and I'm afraid I have to agree with 3:24 in that it may be really bad, but it is not an effective political issue unless it results in discipline or a conviction. That way the theme can be: this candidate was convicted of this crime and/or disciplined for this or that.
That would be something short and effective that voters can get a grip on. But arguing, instead, that these agencies had the complaints for years, and should have acted because all this was bad, and then a discussion really getting into the weeds and the minutae, would just confuse and bore the voters.
Now, 3:56 says that the legacy of something like this goes well beyond an individual election, and perhaps. We will see. We do need to discipline our own when merited, but such is not always the case. Some escape discipline that they deserved, while others get punished disproportionately and too harshly.
4:27 point very well stated. We will see how the Nevada Bar and Florida Bar investigate. We cannot allow ourselves to be suppressed or inhibited from speaking the truth because the "system" is not perfect.
I'm not real familiar with the local republican party but I was really surprised by the Rodimer/Schwartz result. I thought Schwartz was decently respected from his Treasurer run.
Schwartz made the mistake once of talking about raising taxes. Rodimer is a fresh face, Trumper, who is likeable. He went to law school in Florida and wrestled briefly in the WWE. He actually called me on my home phone as part of his campaigning and talked to me for like 20 minutes. He's a good politician. And he also was going by Big Dan to differentiate his 6/7 self from "little" Dan Schwartz. So, not a surprise to me he did well. Going against Susie Lee is a different story…
What 1:34 said – Rodimer reached out to me personally and I began to research him and quickly became a supporter. I listened to the negative campaign against him by Schwartz and then did some research and it wasn't supported at all – sleezy smear campaign but Susie Lee will turn it up so he's going to have to be prepared. I'm going all in this election – for a first time – donating as much money as we can to Dan and will be campaigning for him. Susie has to go. District 3 might be an easier flip.
I've read Chuck Muth's scathing comments about Dan Schwartz. I don't know how much influence Chuck has but he has nothing good to say about Schwartz.
Dan Schwarz was in political no-mans land. A Republican despised by the party as being beyond a RINO, sleezy attack ads that were run against him and also someone who tangled mightily inside of the Party. Schwartz would have been a more formidable candidate against Susie Lee. Being a "Trumper" in that district is like being the patsy in WWE. Rodimer will get eaten alive.
So you're saying, Susie Lee will put the smackdown on his candy ass?
I always thought Schwartz was a pretty far right R. Funny how the fiscal realities of actually being in the position of running the gov can change a person's views.
Off topic, but where are those of us looking for attorney jobs checking for postings? My firm is hiring, and, as a new firm, we are evaluating where we should post a job description. It costs a chunk of change to post jobs on some of these sites (looking at you, NVBar), which is fine if it is one that is actually visited by qualified folks.
We recently paid for the NVBar mailer for a job we're listing. We received 2 resumes.
Where are all these out of work attorneys?
post it here.
Here's where I look each day: Indeed and LinkedIn. From time to time I check craigslist, nvbar jobs, usajobs.
Indeed, Glassdoor, and Linkedin.
Indeed. Word of mouth.
call your attorney buddies and tell them to spread the word. every hire in my firm in the last 10 years has been word of mouth, including staff.
Spread the word amongst your buddies. I have out of work attorneys cold emailing me about jobs so they are out there.
When I see jobs in the bar magazine I assume they are old listings that have been filled already based on publishing lead times.
Thank you all for your comments. Going to give Indeed a shot.
Full results are not in. I will worry then, June 19, 2020.