To all members of the State Bar of Nevada:
The views expressed in the President’s Column in the May 2014 issue of the Nevada Lawyer do not represent those of the Board of Governors, its individual members, or the State Bar of Nevada as a whole.
The State Bar of Nevada and the Board of Governors embrace and welcome viewpoints of every kind and the Board assures all of our members that diversity and tolerance are valued and respected by the State Bar.
The Board of Governors assures all members of the Bar and the public that the State Bar of Nevada does not support any use of the President’s Column for political statements. The Board has a policy that requires the State Bar President to refrain from using the Nevada Lawyer to advance personal political viewpoints.
The Board of Governors assures all members that we will be diligent in representing you in an unbiased manner.
The State Bar's email may be in response to the letter from Boyd faculty and staff that came out yesterday: http://unlvlawblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/response-to-alan-lefebvres-message-from_22.html?m=1
As a totally random aside, what does it mean in the letter when the person is identified as the "Gordon Silver Professor" or "Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor?" I did not go to Boyd, so just curious. Any information would be great. Thanks in advance.
Professorships are often named in honor of great members of the profession, or, more and more commonly, people or organizations who donate large sums of money to the university. I guess universities ran out of buildings, auditoriums, etc. to name, so they started naming professorships. When the So-and-So Professor leaves or retires, his or her predecessor will still be the So-and-So Professor.
^^^ Pretty much this. As an example, at Notre Dame, the cost for a named professorship for a new, young professor is $1.5 million, and the cost to put your name on a professorship for a big-name senior professor is a cool $5 million.
Thanks 11:34 and 12:10. I probably should have known that, but I went to a lowly school that just called the professors "professor." Now, I really feel like I got cheated for my $120K in student loan debt.
I didn't read the president's column, what did it say about marriage?
It didn't say anything about marriage. It said that the AG abdicated her role as the State's AG and took a more politically correct path by withdrawing her brief because of the fear of losing. Was the article over the top? Yeah. Was the sentiment right? IMHO – yes.
Was it a waste of bar funds and an improper use of his position? Absolutely.
This guy is the biggest jackass. He makes the entire bar look silly.
He's free to express any opinion he wants to – just not in a publication supported by my involuntary dues.
Beyond the screeching political rhetoric of the last two columns which made the President sound tone deaf to representing the BOG and entire Bar, they were terribly written columns. Could not SOMEONE on the Nevada Lawyer Editorial Board have at least proofread them?
No matter what else one might say about Robert Eglet, 1 loss in 11 years for the type of high-profile cases he does is pretty impressive.
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Anyone who has the ability to cherry pick cases better only lose 1 in 11 years. Not that impressive.
I guess one could argue that him having the ability to cherry pick billion dollar cases is the most impressive. I wish I had that problem.
Just my opinion and I was there for the whole thing. Mr. Eglet made some serious errors. He was too sure of himself and seemed to be motivated by greed. He tried to get loss of consortium for a plaintiff's husband who appeared to be suffering from dementia and had no idea what was happening in the courtroom. Both plaintiffs were already elderly when they were diagnosed with bladder cancer. He failed to put enough emphasis on the destruction of evidence by Takeda. If he would have asked for a reasonable amount for the plaintiffs and dropped the loss of consortium he would have gotten the punitive damages he wanted. Somehow he failed to read the jury was completely turned off by his numbers. But if I ever needed a PI lawyer, Eglet would still be on my short list. This was not his best performance.
It was an idiot column. I've never even heard of him anyway. Who elects these schmucks?
you do
Amazing that Bob Eglet lost a case before Judge Eglet, oops I mean Judge Early.