- Quickdraw McLaw
- 22 Comments
- 330 Views
- Sam Lionel at 100. [KNPR]
- Occupational boards and commissions spent more than $500,000 on lobbying in 2018. [TNI]
- A confidential legal memo made public reveals that a UNLV dental professor was overpaid by $460,000. [RJ]
- Remember the Boulder City crosswalk case? The man at the center of it, John Hunt, posted a link in the comments about a video he made for anyone interested.
- From a press release:
Chief Judge Gloria M. Navarro, of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, is pleased to announce that Brenda Weksler has been selected to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the Honorable Peggy A. Leen, United States Magistrate Judge in Las Vegas, Nevada. Judge Leen will be retiring April 30, 2019.
Ms. Weksler is presently an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Las Vegas, where she has worked since 2003. Prior to joining the Federal Public Defender’s Office, she worked as a law clerk at the Eighth Judicial District Court from 2002-2003. She received her law degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School; and her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ms. Weksler will assume the position of a United States Magistrate Judge on May 1, 2019. The term of appointment is eight years.
Mr. Hunt,
From the looks of it, you must have put a tremendous amount of time and possibly also money into that video. How much time did it take you to put that video together? And how much did it cost? Thanks.
That video is unintentionally hilarious. So earnest in an over-the-top way. Also, disclosing atty-client privileged documents and convos may not be a smart thing, but who am I to say?
Lionel looks great for 100. Kudos
Sam Lionel still working at a 100.
John Hunt is a student of the Shatner School of Speaking, I see.
Also – yield to pedestrians. It's not that hard. Hell, the UNLV PD used to run the same sting operation. They do it to remind people to not run down pedestrians who are just trying to cross the street.
Shatner School of Speaking '13.
FIFY.
Why is he just sitting in the desert in a bunch of weeds? Hilarious!
Weksler = No civil experience whatsoever, no real law firm/private practice experience. Uneventful, or underwhelming criminal law experience as far as I'm aware.
No better candidates out there? Hey, maybe she'll just get up to speed on civil practice in 30 days. How much could there be to learn?
She has decent criminal law experience. She has no civil experience. She has no business being an MJ at this point in her career.
There is a long line of MJs who had no criminal experience. Brenda has voluminous discovery experience from white collar cases and she is the reason the Bundy case got dismissed.
I agree it might be a little early for this appointment, but let's be real. There are very few judicial candidates who have meaningful experience in both civil and criminal fields (and who aren't the few hyper-successful examples of those who do – and who obviously make too much money to consider the appointment). I guess more people used to do it back in the day, but it just doesn't happen much nowadays. Demanding someone who has experience in both civil and criminal is, in my opinion, demanding someone who dabbled in a couple fields but probably didn't become an expert in either. Hey, maybe that's preferable, but it also could be a sign of someone who doesn't drill down to the details and nuance to the level you'd want in a MJ.
4:29– Fair point. I think the bigger point is that this is FAR premature in her career that has not been exemplary in any manner. We seem to have a lower bar for criminal attorneys than civil attorneys in this regard.
As long as her temperament on the bench steers well clear of Koppe territory, we'll be okay.
I wish we could expect this Koppe experiment to mercifully end at the end of her 8 year stint but I fear we are stuck with Koppe for eternal damnation.
How is becoming a magistrate after 17 years of practice far premature? Lots of magistrates take the bench with less experience. Hell, lots of federal district court judges do.
Agreed, 9:45. It's on the earlier end of the spectrum for the level of experience I'd like to see, but 17 years is reasonable.
I like Brenda. She is bright. She went Boyd with me. I think she will do a nice job.
I know Brenda. She is smart and has a great demeanor. She's also tried a lot of cases which is not common to folks with civil-only backgrounds. Many of the cases she's tried in federal court have been complex and voluminous. I heard that she took a lot of CLEs on civil practice in the last few years. Not a substitute for civil practice but it is likely that the civil practice applicants didn't bother to take a bunch of criminal CLEs. She is a good choice.
Brenda did not exactly tear it up at Boyd School of Law, either, so her getting a nice clerkship straight out of law school, then a plush federal public defender gig immediately thereafter, on to 17 years of smooth sailing there, and now an appointment to Federal Magistrate by the same Chief Judge whom made a splashy ruling on the Bundy case Weksler was handling…
Dear Incumbent BoG Candidates:
STOP THE PABLUM! "Having now served one term as a member of our Board of Governors, continuing to promote high ethical standards for our Bar is indeed essential to maintaining our independence as a legal profession and our continued self-governance. Such regulatory authority also must be fair, exercised in a fiscally responsible manner, accountable to the public, and responsive to its constituent members. I’m also concerned for the “little folks” in our profession; the solo, small firm, small town and rural practitioners whose independence are and should be one of the backbones of our profession, too. To those ends, I wish to continue my public service to the Nevada Bar as a member of its Board of Governors."
You know what you just told me you accomplished in your first term on the Board? NOTHING! You literally just told me that you accomplished nothing.
Where did you stand on bullshit out of state Bar Conventions? No clue. What is your position on the destruction of various bar programs that have been neglected? No idea. Tell me some program that you are behind and are responsible for its development. Tell me SOMETHING that the Bar is doing or proposing to do that you voted to halt. I know the BoG is just a vacuous group of supercilious mutual back scratchers but for once, just stand up and tell me SOMETHING that you want to get done or have gotten done.
Actually, these emails are quite helpful. They help me know who to NOT vote for.
I agree. You took the time to send an email to every member of the Bar to confirm that you have absolutely no ideas or policies.