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- Eighth Judicial District issues Order Adopting Changes to Rules of Practice. [NV Bar]
- A’s consider hiring investment firm to help secure LV ballpark financing. [RJ]
- Jailed YouTuber calls judge “obvious tyrant” in video asking for release. [RJ]
- In a poorly worded headline that doesn’t mean what you think, “Man accused of murdering girlfriend’s 4-year-old to get new defense attorney.” [8NewsNow]
As often happens with litigants, I admire his bravado while shaking my head at his stupidity. Fight smarter rather than harder.
So, . . . . ya think Zimm will release him?
I dont think Zimmerman or Leavitt will release him.
Fellow Practitioners what do you do? I have hit a wall with Las Vegas Justice Court on an Application for Default Judgment. The department is demanding an SCRA printout to show that the Defendant is not active duty military. Defendant is a senior citizen retiree. However to get an SCRA printout you have to have a DOB or SSN. I don’t have that information and would suspect many plaintiffs would not have that information for a defendant. How do you handle this situation?
If you have a name and address, some googling might get you a DOB (those background info sites, or something like that) (no opinion on the ethics/legality of this)
File a declaration that, on information, belief, and investigation, defendant isn’t a member of the military, and then argue that you’ve met the preponderance standard.
File petition for writ of mandamus to tell the judge, duh, this super old person isn’t active duty military.
This kind of stuff drives me crazy.
File a writ to the DC
The filed Order/ADKT (pdf) is here: https://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/document/view.do?csNameID=67716&csIID=67716&deLinkID=944250&onBaseDocumentNumber=24-14622
Anyone got the sparknotes?
Interesting. The District Court recommended these rule changes without consulting bar committees and sections. Then the Supreme Court adopted the proposed rule changes without asking for public comment.
I know for a fact that the probate section was consulted and submitted recommendations, many of which were incorporated
Why do we have to change the rules every 3 years?!
Rule 2.35 changes it so that stips or motions to extend any discovery scheduling order date must be filed no later than 21 days before the earliest discovery deadline for which an extension is sought (instead of 21 days before the cutoff). I get that they want to avoid last second extensions, but I’d say 98% of the time we need extensions it is a decision we make or something we figure out within a week of a deadline. I don’t see any way for this rule to work in real practice.
How do you not realize you need an extension on experts more than a week before the deadline?
Easy. You have pending discovery not recieved, or they need a bit more time to produce an expert report.
I just had 5,000 pages of documents dumped on us 9 days before the Expert Deadline for which reports would be due.
Murdering a kid just to get a new defense attorney?
Cool motive, still murder.
Semi-serious question: has anyone ever brainstormed if/how it’s possible to take action against SBN for the excessive dues and fees we pay in relation to their out of state conference-cation? I’ve just got a bee in my bonnet over it today and was curious if anyone’s ever tried.
I would start by Googling other lawsuits against state bars for the same thing. There are surprisingly quite a few.
To clarify, there are many suits against bars but I don’t remember if or how many are related to dues. Are a ton on freedom speech.
Very unique approach by Sue the Bar guy to buy an extension of our attention in this way.
U r one weird cat haha
Is anyone actually sweating the bar dues? Or is this just venting?
My brother in christ, yes. Believe it or not, those of us who were recently barred are still part of the working class that isn’t exactly thriving, and we are sweating the bar dues/TIP fee/sting of how expensive the NV bar exam was/setback of not making money full-time for the past three years while cost of living in Vegas rose significantly…
… and not all of you throwing these little jabs around are paying your associates for that shit! Pay up or shut up! <33 quit worrying about me and remember who the real enemy is!
$250?
I’m rooting for you, really. But you’re getting more than $250 in value out of the bar, whether you know it or not.
But, yeah, if you’re working for someone they should be footing that fee, anyway.
$300 🙁
Sky high bar fees and costs are one thing, but using my money to push an anti-human, anti-freedom, pro-communist DEI initiatives that mandate disregarding the constitution and US employment laws is egregious. If the SBN wants to push that agenda, have Soros or someone like that stroke the check and cut our fees and costs.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/Soros
Our bar dues directly goes to support the affinity bars and specialty ones. It also helps support Legal Services- Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. It goes through the Nevada Bar Foundation. It is a disgrace. We need an audit and an explanation. They run the place like a fiefdom and we are the serfs. Legal Aid attorneys don’t have to take the bar exam-they get a “C” number. Then they pushed for automatic admission of rural attorneys to have a permanent bar license without taking the exam. I think it is pending before the Nevada Supreme Court. Don’t know if discussed here. It was crickets about it.
They provide financials and you can look at them. Stop whining and review them and point out the issues. Whining on a blog that “we need an audit…” is pointless. Take action. Take the lead.
The board of governors has been claiming for a while (as they roam in their mobile oppression palace) that dues are too low and other states charge more. I haven’t gotten far arguing with them.
Every time someone new tries to run for BoG, they lose because everyone complaining about bar dues is too lazy to click the link and vote. So we have the same old sycophants doing the same old thing. If the small and solo attorneys would all get behind one or two candidates, we could replace them with people who can actually relate to our practice and look out for our interests.
Bar Fees for CA attorneys may go up over 90%