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- Wynn lawsuit accuses Fontainebleau of poaching employees. [VItalVegas; RJ]
- Wild horse panel convened “to keep the search for a solution alive.” [TNI]
- Man convicted as teen in triple-fatal crash put in treatment court in DUI case. [RJ]
- Group’s report takes aim at political contributions by personal injury firms. [RJ]
- Opinion: Legal strategy poses threat to direct democracy. [TNI]
- What else is happening out there today?
Lousy Smarch weather
The RJ publishing a story about the plaintiff’s bar’s political contributions is rich. Now do the Adelsons. What sucks is that the uneducated electorate will buy whatever they’re told and not bother to spend a single solitary brain cell considering the rank hypocrisy of that article.
Agreed, let’s look at “tort reform” funding first
All you have to do is look up the recordings from the hearings on raising the med mal cap. All the paid interest groups and talking heads that yap about tort reforms “successes” without citing a single peer review article on the matter. It’s all hot air, buzz words, and political platitudes. The Med Mal argument is especially rich, because all the pro-KODIN knuckleheads that screamed for reform 20 years ago have nothing to show for it. We still have a physician shortage, insurance rates are still sky high, and we still have objectively the worst healthcare industry in the entire nation by multiple different metrics.
These financiers and interest groups truly couldn’t care less about the people they claim to protect. Tort reform, bail reform, et al. is a big a failure as the war on drugs.
How exactly would you suggest one prove that NV’s physician shortage wouldn’t be significantly worse if the Med Mal caps weren’t enacted 20 years ago?
Uhh, maybe because doctors weren’t leaving to begin with lmao?
Show me peer reviewed evidence that significant levels of physicians were leaving the state en masse in 2004. You won’t, because you can’t.
Now do AIPAC
Said the PI lawyer. . . . .
$4.5 million since 2017? Let’s see… that works out to about $650,000.00 per year. Big deal. How much do you suppose insurance company/business PACs have given to their favored candidates during that time period. It isn’t journalism when you mindlessly reprint the press release of someone with an agenda and then try to pass it off as “news.”
$4.5m is heavily understated. Some names not included in that list – the Eglets, Ben Cloward, Dimopoulos, etc.. Bob/Tracy Eglet contributed over $1.8m since 2017. Cloward donated almost $350k. Dimopoulos gave over $115k. The real number is actually much, much higher. Money from the plaintiffs’ bar dwarfs anything from insurance companies/business PACs. If you have any evidence to support otherwise, I’d love to see it…
That’s chump change compared to what the Adelsons (the owners of the RJ) donated. Go ask your google machine.
Just look up what the chamber gives. Look up what casinos give.
During billing day, I like to look at other jobs in Vegas and see what they pay. Today, I have questions: Why are all the job listings offering such low pay right now? NV Energy is offering more than most firms.
Also, shout out to the firm offering an attorney position at $60,000 to $75,000/year. At least the listing doesn’t require more than one year of experience . . .
Is anyone actually applying to these jobs? If so, why? Why not become a Wendy’s store manager and make $120,000 a year instead?
$60k? I wouldn’t even apply. What a joke.
I didn’t see that but i remember coming out of school during the recession in mid 2000s people were fighting over those positions. Nowadays, i think it is still an employee’s market and i can’t imagine anyone applying unless it is some sort of non profit situation and they are fighting for the cause.
Because Wendy’s does not let you start at “Store Manager” with a J.D.
Exactly! Don’t look down your nose at new/young attorneys when you “can’t find good help”… We’ll pass on being paid $75k a year to be the firm whipping boy that spends half our time in traffic court fighting you and your badass kids’ traffic tickets.
Anyone else read the Musk complaint against Altman, et al? Gripping read.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24452272-muskaltman
Lawyers seek $5.6B in Tesla stock as contingency fee. Where are your Brunzell factors now?
https://apnews.com/article/musk-tesla-legal-fees-pay-package-f23bd43fa831f65386320360484cf6f3
They saved the company $55 billion. I mean, as “the result” goes, that’s not too shabby.
Colorado Election SCOTUS case out. 9-0 that Colorado Supreme Court is reversed. 5-4 per curiam that only Congress can decide the issue by passing legislation determining who is, or is not, an “oathbreaking insurrectionist.” Four justices – Barrett, Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson all agree that the majority should STFU about matters not properly before it, but still agree that the decision needed to be overturned because the state can’t enforce Section 3 of 14.
The 3-justice quote of Roberts’ concurrence in Dobbs to point out that Roberts majority went too far here was just.. chef’s kiss.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf