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You’ll see there are two posts today, this one with the usual variety of news and a separate one dedicated to judicial election news. One of the new features we’re going to try with WordPress is putting the judicial election news in a separate category so that it will be easy to find and the conversation can stay focused on a single topic. We appreciate your understanding as we continue to try and improve the blog.
- ACLU sues Metro over treatment of deaf people at county jail. [Nevada Current]
- Mentally ill inmate starved to death at Las Vegas jail, lawsuit (brought by Peter Goldstein on behalf of the man’s mother) alleges. [RJ]
- Lawsuit filed by parents represented by Dennis Prince claims CCSD, teachers union protect teachers accused of sexual misconduct. [RJ]
- Settlement reached between former CEO, Nye County sheriff’s captain. [RJ]
- AG’s office fails to fulfill records request. [TNI]
- Meanwhile, several other top elected officials’ calendars show A’s meetings, film tax discussion, and travel. [TNI]
- Street performers question new Clark County pedestrian bridge ordinance. [Fox5Vegas]
Um, it’s a CALENDAR, lol:
“For our office, almost every single communication is potentially privileged,” Nino Piro said. “We have a very detailed review process. It goes through at least a two-step review by two separate attorneys, reviewing for hundreds of confidentiality statutes, and many other privileges.”
Don’t get me wrong, it seems too long for me. But calendar invites can absolutely have confidential info/communications in them. I always include them in requests for “communications.”
Seems like a bad practice to routinely put confidential communications in an otherwise public record.
G lawyer here – not for the state. Different agency heads always put stupid stuff in emails and calendar invites to their G lawyer. I agree it’s bad practice, but the last thing these people think about is dealing with a later public records request. They don’t have to deal with it, the lawyers do. So while it may be bad practice, that doesn’t mean the lawyer can just dump a bunch of records without reviewing for confidentiality/privilege.
True. But taking months to do a privilege review of calendar entries sounds more like stonewalling rather than conducting a timely, diligent review.
As we are renewing our Annual Dues, the SBN website remains an untenable disaster of locking up and inaccessibility.
Won’t work at all on normal browser. May or may not work on phone, barely works on an incognito tab.
Embarrassing how much that website has regressed over the years.
Operator error. Clear your cookies.
Incorrect. Cookies were cleared. SBN website went nowhere. Back up now.
Gotta make way for EMPIRE BUILDING!
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/should-a-former-bank-building-in-downtown-las-vegas-be-saved-2982382/?
The article implies that LACSN is planning to build another building for it’s downtown campus?
Really? LACSN is really building an empire, and if true, will be the largest law firm in the state.
How much is too much?
Article said SBN added 189,000 new clients. If your law firm added 189,000 new clients, you might expand also.
With that said, I do have concerns that LACSN is bearing too much of the load and that diversification of services would be well founded. The problem is that no one else is stepping into the breach to pick up those services. And I have had a fair number of cases where I am pretty certain LACSN has a conflict because it is taking in so many people that their intakes necessarily have conflicts.
Sorry, anyone who steps up is crushed
You are absolutely correct. Barbara Buckley wants to control everything. She affirmatively seeks to crush anyone who attempts to “compete” with her outfit. But Legal Aid of Southern Nevada is a lousy provider of services, and most of their lawyers are flat-out incompetent.
If my law firm didn’t charge clients anything, then my law firm could add 189,000 new clients too. LACSN doesn’t play by the same rules as all other law firms, and that’s a problem.
It’s probably already the largest non-govt law firm in the state. Anybody check numbers of attorneys lately? Seems like they’re always hiring
The irony is that LACSN accomplishes very little. Most of their lawyers do not know how to do much of anything. But they are EXCELLENT at getting grant money. I think we would be a healthier legal community if there were several different legal aid entities operating under different managements. Barbara Buckley is obsessed with controlling everything, and the fact is, her empire doesn’t do much.
Courtesy of taxpayers, bar dues, court fees.
Hold on. What percentages or amount of bar dues do you believe is given to LACSN?
It is not merely a “belief.” Look at the “programs” that are funded with bar dues, and you’ll see LACSN. It includes their pipeline project for hiring and indoctrinating newbies over there, for starters. That’s just the direct aspect of it. There’s also the indirect, e.g., the money that is spent on encouraging pro bono work on LACSN’s behalf?
Find and review the list of the bar’s Idea Grant recipients, for example. LACSN’s a frequent flier.
Fans of DEI especially love those “Idea Grants.” They’re all about that.
The Nevada Bar Foundation funds LACSN and other legal service providers; however that is with IOLTA monies. Where is the report that says bar dues are actually funding LACSN? https://www.nevadabarfoundation.org/grants/past-iolta-grant-recipients/
Already told you. IDEA GRANTS.
The acronym stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, btw. Clever, right? Your bar dues at work there too, coming up with such a catchy acronym.
Wait a minute. The topic above is capital improvements being made by LACSN, for which the assertion was made that it was funded by bar dues. IDEA Grants do not go to capital improvements. So once again how many dollars of bar dues (as opposed to NBF monies) were paid to LACSN for any purpose, let alone capital improvements?
NBF is IOLTA Grants, not Idea Grants, right? You avoided stating the source of the funding for the Idea Grants. You appear to be an insider, so is the source of the funding for Idea Grants bar dues or not? If not, what is the source of the funding? You should also kindly tell us what the grand total is rather than asking us to give you a total. We run-of-the-mill bar members aren’t as easily informed by the bar as LACSN is by its advocates on the board. The topic in these comments was the Empire and its sources of funding, and the fact that LACSN doesn’t have to play by the same rules or even live in the same world as other law firms. The proverbial uneven playing field. There was no limiting of the discussion to or assertion made that capital improvements were being funded by bar dues. Obviously, LACSN doesn’t need bar dues for capital improvements when it can get tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for that, right?
How many lawyers employed at LACSN actually practice law? How many are actually admitted to practice and authorized to appear in court? How many have “C” numbers. How many actually handle clients? How many are real lawyers?????
Almost zero. Buckley is into numbers, not the quality representation of real clients. They seek numbers, always numbers. And who has the energy or motivation to challenge any of this? Nobody.
Is anyone watching the US Sup. Ct on Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Commerce?
How do you watch when they don’t allow cameras?
Can’t watch as far as I know, but they do post the audio recordings the same day usually.
If you search on YouTube for “Supreme Court livestream” you’ll find a couple news services providing live audio feeds. No video, of course.
You an also listen to the live audio on the Court’s website; scroll down to the Oral Arguments heading on the front page, there’s a link at the bottom of the weekly oral argument calendar.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
Watching as in monitoring the cases?
I wonder if the SBN had anything to do with it, or is LVMPD doing SBN’s UPL job? https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/metro-arrests-woman-for-impersonating-attorney-2982748
Unlikely that SBN had anything to do with it. Much more likely that the person who is currently suing her for loan fraud and a bounced $15k check in EJDC turned everything over to Metro like they threatened to.
What, you expected OBC to do their job going after UPL, a practice that actually hurts the public?
Given that the UPL under NRS 7.285 isn’t directly charged, I’d doubt SBN had little, if anything, to do with this.