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I watched the Gragson video. Looks like he's going to do about 6 years.
I'm not a criminal defense attorney; but I'm interested to know how much someone pays Schoenfeld and Chesnoff to get to that point in the case. I'm also interested to know whether the deal Gragson got with Chesnoff is substantially better than a deal he could have gotten with an average competent criminal defense attorney.
Gragson is not likley to do even 1 year in prison. In Nevada when someone goes to prison for DUI they have to be housed separately from violent offenders. Simply put there's very little room for non-violent DUI offenders, so those people are given parole and sometimes released to a halfway house.
The deal Gragson got was good for him considering the number of people who were injured, but not that hard to achieve for someone who practices DUI law, as I do. On a DUI trial I've seen a jury come back with 'guilty' and the judge sentence the defendant to 8-20 years and the prison let him go after about 8 months.
As for the cost of Chesnoff & Schoenfeld, no idea…
Nevada has a massive shortage of prison space. DUI's are strictly a source of revenue for the state. The minute Gragson enters prison he goes from the income side to the expense side. No one gives a damn about the young lady who died.
The sleepiest public defender probably could have gotten that same deal.
Is Theat really true that Gragson will do less than a year?
Thoughts on Lewis Brisbois? Insight is appreciated.
I have seen some awful work product from their Las Vegas office over the years, but not enough to form an impression of the firm as a whole. I also had a horrifically awkward interview experience with them five years back or so (which soured my opinion a bit), but I have colleagues who stayed at LBBS for years without issue. Hopefully other replies have more specifics than I…
More details re awkward interview experience please (understanding the need to be be generic).
3:26 PM here. About what you could imagine: inconsistent representations from interviewers, partnership, and staff about expectations, needs, and timing; inflexibility, condescension, and impatience following an underwhelming offer; etc.
Not bad enough of an experience for me to think poorly of the entire firm or local office, but enough for me (as a newer attorney) to immediately realize that it was not going to work. Every firm has their quirks, right?
LBBS used to be a really good firm. And then they just got busy enough that they would hire anyone it seemed. There are good lawyers over there and then people who you wondered how in the world did they hire them.
Depends on who you are dealing with, for instance, Keith Weaver, is one of the biggest assholes in town. I have seen similar behavior from a few others there as well. But I have had perfectly normal encounters with them as well. So it really depends. They burn through associates. I have had a few cases that started with one associate, only for me to get an email that they were no longer with the firm. Seems to happen there more than most places.
I'm licensed in Nevada but now live in Phoenix. I want to do a little work semi retired. Can I get iolta here or d ok es have to be nevada? Thank you.
Your renewal application for your Nevada license requires listing the address of a Nevada bank branch for your trust account. It can be a national bank, but there must be a physical Nevada branch location, as I read it.
4:19 here. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I appreciate it.
Be careful about rules about having an office presence for in person service if you are taking cases.
@835am
Kinda like the rules regarding working out of your home?? Talk about NOT enforced. I know several practitioners (mostly family law) that work from home 100% of the time and do consults at Starbucks.
After trying to figure out the multi-state firm rules in 7.5A for the firm where I was an associate, I got the impression that the bar regulated law firms not just lawyers. Then I went solo in 2018 and was surprised that there was no where to register a firm that was solely in Nevada.
But the reason for that musing was to keep an eye on not being considered a multi-jurisdictional firm as much for the reporting trap as the extra $500 a year.
Law student in real estate. That poor family. Woah. I was told in a real estate CE class that inspectors are only liable up to the few hundred dollars charged for the inspection if they miss something. That's brutal…
Yep, the contracts with home inspectors limit their liability to the cost of the inspection. And those same contracts entirely exclude tons of stuff from the scope of the inspection, effectively rendering home inspections a joke.
That poor family? The one who pocketed the insurance money. The one who knew that they were buying a mid-century house from a Flipping Company and who apparently had no comprehensive inspections done? Yeah maybe they should have had a better realtor.