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I had no idea Shelley Berkley was an attorney.
Passed Bar in 1978.
Her bio page says “prior to serving in Congress” she was a practicing attorney. She served from 1999 – 2013. So, it’s been more than a quarter-century. With respect, I don’t consider her “just as much an attorney” as David Roger. Could be wrong.
Yeah, wasn’t there a scandal like 25 years ago about her serving as in-house counsel to Sheldon Adelson and she advised him he should donate to the campaigns for local officials so that if they got elected they might be more likely to do favors for the Venetian? She almost didn’t get elected to congress because of that.
Seems so quaint now that such a scandal could stop your election!
And Sheldon did not know that if he made donations to politicians they would be more likely to do favors for him? I wonder how his wife managed to get that Medal of Freedom after giving $100 million to Trump. (“Better than a Medal of Honor” claimed DJT). Yeah, blame the corruption on Berkley, who was long gone from the Adelson orbit.
Which practice areas do people love?
The one that pays well. Truly love it.
I’m partial to the practice putting and chipping greens myself.
Crim Law is absolutely fun. Emotionally draining, but always fun.
Hope a prosecutor didn’t write this!
Just filled out my RJ judging the judges survey. It felt cathartic to give Linda Marquis, Ron Israel and Joanna Kishner the poor ratings they so richly deserve.
Kishner and Israel, agreed. Esp Kish.
But Linda Marquis is pretty solid.
When I get intakes on cases with Linda Marquis, I level with them and tell them they need to go out and hire a very talented female attorney. I’ve actually had people call me back months later and thank me.
We’ve had male attorneys represent out clients before Judge Marquis, and her rulings were largely correct as to the law and its application to the facts. She also is one of the too few judges with the backbone to stand up to LACSN and call out its B.S.
As a man who appeared in front of Linda Marquis multiple times, I found her to be an excellent judge.
I respect your opinion, but Kishner is a smart judge who has a bad demeanor. Israel is a very poor judge with a poor demeanor.
I hit a paywall when trying to access the survey. I will continue to judge the judges silently to myself.
There is no paywall for the survey. Survey runs through secure UNLV site, not RJ news site. Need to access via invitation sent via email or postcard. Questions about the survey or access issues may be directed to the UNLV research center at createam@unlv.edu or 702-895-4196.
Survey-Not sure about an invite or email. How you sign up for the survey. I thought it was to be offered to all attorneys. Please let us know. I would like to participate. What does the email invite look like. I get 100 plus emails a day. Thanks.
Go department through department and dish here!!
I was happy to give Judge Kishner, Newberry and Williams negative ratings.
Kishner and Talim gots to go.
You’re half riight. Talim is legit. But we might lose her tk the governors mansion 5 years from now.
Barf @ Governor’s mansion LOL
What about Eric and Susan? Please retire.
They are both running again and rightly so.
Thanks Susan.
Talim started off arrogant.
Not surprising considering her background and her appointment.
Hottie judge gets a pass.
Ballous time is up. Gall, too. Mendoza is unpleasant as is Pieper and they’re both in over their heads in civil. Bluth doesn’t work. Four civil calendars a month.
Gall is a fabulous judge who probably does not stay at the state district court bench long. She has a bit of pomposity but is smart as a whip. Bluth works very hard and knows your record as well as you do. The remaining judges you named are not worth the wood their benches are made out of.
Fact – Bluth has calendar six days a month.
she clears it by deciding cases on the papers – like more judges should.
Family Court-FORSBERG GOTS TO GOoooooooo
Hardy is horrible. He throws major tantrums and is incredibly disrespectful.
And yet, back when he was a lawyer he was quite genial. Shame.
My issue with hardy is that he seems to have decided to just punt everything to trial. I had a SMJ that was black and white. Easy call. I know I am biased, but trust me. A no brainer. Opposing counsel and I were already talking about trial with the assumption it would be granted. Nope. Questions of fact. Seems like he has decided to avoid getting overturned, but just not making any decisions that realistically could be appealed.
Thank you for posting links today that don’t all go to RJ articles.