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- It’s the last day of school, Memorial Day Weekend, and the unofficial start of summer! Time to celebrate! Are any of you getting out of town? Staycation? Working long weekend hours on a completely unnecessary brief? Please don’t drive if you’ve been drinking and we’ll see you back here next week!
- The Nevada Legislature is still hard at working passing bills (like voting rights restoration) in advance of tomorrow’s deadline for bills to pass the second house. [TNI]
- The mayor of Henderson, Debra March, paid back some campaign expenses, but what she breaking campaign finance laws? [I-Team]
- From a news release:
The Nevada Guardianship Compliance Office of the Nevada Supreme Court urges individuals involved with or considering guardianship to take part in a new online course.
The training called, Finding the Right Fit: Decision-Making Supports and Guardianship is offered free-of-charge from the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). Individuals can find the course at https://eji.courtlms.org/. If you do not have access to a computer, your local library probably has one that you could use.
Finding the Right Fit provides a broad overview of decision-making help and the role of guardians. The goal of the training is to provide information and guidance on finding the right supports for someone’s needs, including:
• Supporting someone in making choices about health, money, and lifestyle.
• Discovering ways to allow someone to exercise independence.
• Deciding whether to become a guardian, and how to support a person’s self-determination and decision-making as a guardian.In particular, the training offers tips on how to identify and understand the risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation that comes with any of the above options.
To help report guardianship abuse, the Nevada Guardianship Compliance Office has established a toll-free guardianship fraud hotline at (833) 421-7711.
The NCSC offers the course with support of the U.S. Department of Justice Elder Justice Initiative and the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging.
There was a post late in the evening yesterday from a lawyer about being mediocre, an absent parent and lazy spouse. Most lawyers including me are fucked up like this person. We expect and demand that we perform at 100+% all of the time on everything in our lives. We tell ourselves that we can be the BEST: lawyer, father, spouse, friend, etc. It's not possible to be the best at everything all of the time. It's not possible to be the BEST at everything. Don't drive yourself crazy thinking it possible to always be the BEST. You're allowed to "just" be adequate as a lawyer. You're allowed to devote an honest effort and fail.
First things first is take care of yourself. Talk to someone if you're really struggling and can't get out of this "must win" mindset. Despite the State Bar's failings in most areas, there is an effort to proactively help attorneys with substance, mental health and other issues. Confidential assesment and free counseling are available. This is a great place to start: https://www.nvbar.org/member-services-3895/wellness/nlap/ This isn't just for substance abuse.
1-800-273-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
Anyone else get email from the bar saying their name was missing from the people registered for the annual bar meeting? Seems like they're getting desperate?
Did you see the sponsor list? How is it that the bar needs to charge member so much to attend? Is any of the CLE useful to the average practitioner? Why does the annual meeting have to be out of state? (Nevada has great resorts). It all seems rather self congratulatory instead of a service to the members.
No, but I received an email from Lackman about the election. That guy supports lowering bar dues. Got my vote and my associate's vote too.
I got that email from the Bar and immediately deleted it. I have no interest in their expensive and worthless junket. Never did, never will. Why would I want to hang out with those people???
I'll plan my vacations myself!
I booked a trip to Vail. Guess what? Does not cost a fraction of what the Kim Farmer-Memorial Pork Barrel Fest costs. Guess what else? Going somewhere that I am not financing Jim Hardesty to come on vacation with me is actually fun.
The state bar can pound sand if they think I am going to the overpriced annual meeting. They must be desperate to send out such an email. I'm not going to fund a Supreme Court vacation.
4:51-you make your associate sound like sheep. Yawn
Not just a Supreme Court vacation. Also a State Bar vacation. Although generally Annual Meeting week incapacitates the OBC for a week so we have that going for us.
I generally think the anti-Annual Meeting hatred on here gets a little overheated (I agree it doesn't really seem like an accessible service to the membership and shouldn't always be out of state, but wonder why people need to say they'd never been seen in public with THOOOOOOOSE people). But I wholeheartedly agree that was a god awful email. So spammy. So "this could be you" tacky.
I have plans for a staycation binge watching reruns of the Big Bang Theory trying desperately to pretend it hasn't been cancelled.
That show was fantastic for about 4 seasons. After…not so much.
8:31 – You must not have an associate. Have a nice holiday weekend and get some rest my friend.
Slightly off topic, but comments here sparked a couple of questions. Are the SBN financials available for member review? Just where does all the money go? Who has decision making authority for expenditures…and who has oversight responsibility?
Not off topic at all, go to the SBN website, under the "about us" tab select annual report. There is a great deal of information available if you look.
tbf, there is a great deal of information if you know where to look, but it's not a great deal of information about financials.
There is very little information about financials. However if this guy ever gets subpoenaed, he knows where every nickel goes.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-mersol-424774aa
What are you looking for that is not on the site? be specific. Have you been refused any request for info? I am no fan of the SBN or BOG but I really think most people make no effort to get answers to any question they have, thy just bitch. Also the comment about the finance guy is simply reprehensible. You are implying some type of criminal conduct that is completely baseless.
Bail reform possible. AB125 creates a “rebuttable presumption” that the vast majority of defendants arrested on suspicion of a crime should be released on their own recognizance (without conditions), and that monetary bail only be imposed if a judge determines other conditions of release are not adequate to ensure a person will return to court.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/bail-reform-efforts-going-down-to-the-wire-as-legislature-heads-to-finish-line
lol
It's insane that the government can deprive someone of his or her freedom without even doing what I have to do to get a preliminary injunction or TRO. It seems like throwing humans in cages should take more work than it takes to get a startup to stop infringing on a patent.