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- There’s another Badlands lawsuit–this time against the county for taxes. [RJ; 8NewsNow; KTNV]
- Trial opens in death of NLV girl mistakenly targeted. [RJ]
- AG Ford responds to call to investigate fatal police shooting of Brandon Durham. [8NewsNow]
- 2 Nevada prison deaths, 10 days apart, now murder investigations. [8NewsNow]
- Video showing federal agents allegedly detaining local man near the Strip causes outrage. [News3LV]
- Family of man shot to death accuses Boulder City Police of negligence, incompetence. [KTNV]
- There were 2 shootings yesterday with Nevada connections. We are a legal community that knows all too well the impact of such events. Here’s your friendly reminder that violence is not the answer. If you need help, please reach out to someone.
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I’m always surprised there isn’t more discussion on Badlands regarding the fact that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the owner who just happened to be the guy who built the Hardesty Taco Bell Supreme Court for them in Vegas.
The Taj Ma-Hardesty is a black mark on the courts of this state.
There is not a more hideous building in this City.
For some odd reason, I feel like I should bring lots of $1.00 bills with me in there. I don’t know why.
The bar exam starts today.
Maybe the guy who accuses other people of not being lawyers will finally pass!
I think its a dame, not a guy.
Seems too snobbish and pretentious to be a girl but who knows
I know, right? Calling people out when they make patently incorrect statements about the law is so snobbish and pretentious.
Cry harder sis.
Woman or Smart Boi gamma for sure.
state bar finally going after attorneys who are capping
What have you heard? Dish.
state bar filed a complaint against a PI atty specifically for capping, (paying money for getting cases, some of which occurred directly at scene of crash)
I have colleagues who have reported this type of activity several times, and the Bar has never done diddley about it. Who is involved?
ask your PI colleagues. its open knowledge at this point. i will not name names on here out of courtesy
They will go after minnows because the sharks are too big for them which will drive the bait to the sharks.
They all do it basically. If you are an ID attorney conducting depositions, delve into how they came to find out about their attorney. Focus on interactions with tow truck drivers, EMTs, and ER personnel. Their attorneys undoubtedly and impermissibly coached them not to say anything, but maybe you can catch one of them or at least get them to commit perjury.
Agree. They all do it. The only ones up in arms about it now are the sharks/big firms/billboard firms. Every single one of them got where they are by capping and now they want to shut down the little guys trying to do the same thing.
I’m a PI atty and you can believe me or not but we do NOT all do it, not even close. The majority of PI attorneys hate cappers. We would LOVE to see the state bar come down hard on attorneys who engage in this.
You are definitely projecting some big feelings on attorneys who help injured people.
This is BS. It was literally a “billboard” lawyer who dropped the dime on KG when he was approached by her capper at a scene where he was a party to the crash.
Facts or Cap?
got a link?
Seconded
Link please
State Bar does not have the resources to tackle something like this. Too much money at stake. And there are too many well-connected and powerful stakeholders that employ this practice. It’ll get squashed. This is, after all, Nevada.
Do like the DOJ or IRS does and go after a big fish, make the penalties high enough to silence the little fish, rinse and repeat. That’s what the bar should be doing instead of going after little fish all the time.
The DOJ and the IRS do the same thing. Make no mistake.
The State of Local Journalism: This line appeared in the lede of both the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Las Vegas Sun (both newspapers published DUPLICATE articles on this Nevada story):
“Near the California border and just northeast of Lake Tahoe, the town [Reno] is a popular summer tourist destination.”
Anybody else disappointed or shocked about how bad local news is reported?
What happens in Reno is “local news”?
A Reno local station is owned by the same corp as a local Las Vegas station. I have seen the same video of stories on both stations, often with LV anchors.
Cope nobody cares about the third world shanty town of reno
Reno’s a great place. F off
Is it, though?
Quite the indictment on the expected geographic literacy of their Vegas readers.
Re: Video showing federal agents allegedly detaining local man near the Strip causes outrage.
Martha alleges on her GoFundMe Sunday morning around 10 while he was heading to drop her off at work. I love how these people always set up a gofundme page. It’s comical at this point.
Who are “these people?”
Parasites looking for a quick buck I presume
Who you people!?!?
GoFundMe. I need a new Mercedes.
I took a look at the unpublished NSC orders that have come out over the last two weeks or so. Saw a raft of resignations that included some pretty well-known (at least to me) names. I guess time marches on and we aren’t getting any younger.
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF JAMES M. BIXLER (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF MARIA-NICOLLE BERINGER (BAR MATTER
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF OLESYA SIDORKINA (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF BRANDON J. ROBISON (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF JEROME M. POLAHA (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF MICHAEL LEE (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF STUART J. HOEGNER (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF CHRISTOPHER GRIVAKES (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF LIONEL Z. GLANCY (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF AMANDA WILEY DEWICK (BAR MATTER)
IN RE: RESIGNATION OF ANDREW S. BRIGNONE (BAR MATTER)
Had Bixler on a hearing and then shortly after that on a settlement conference. He is a very nice man; however he had lost substantial faculties that made it appropriate for him to be sitting in. He has a double pension.
Polaha was admitted to the Bar in 1968 so he is over 80 years old also.
Question. Why resign, why not just go inactive?
Inactive members still have to pay membership dues, albeit at a reduced rate.
How do you handle this? Opposing Party files Notice of Appeal but does not do anything after that. NSC gives them deadlines to fix it; they dont fix it. Do you bring the missed deadlines to the NSC’s attention or just sit mute waiting for the Court to enforce its own deadlines?
Up to you, but if opposing counsel hasn’t filed a case appeal statement and notice of transcript request within the first deadline, the Court gives them another chance, then the Court issues conditional sanctions, and then if opposing counsel fails to comply again, the Court may dismiss the appeal and/or remove counsel. The Court will then refer it to the State Bar for investigation.
Ask Craig Mueller.
Also true. The Court is not afraid to refer these to OBC. Pretty clear failure to follow the rules.
Ask Craig Mueller.
It has to be REALLY bad for NVSC to do anything though. They always find a way to give more extensions than are warranted. We had one where a lawyer threw a lawyer who just left their firm under the bus without their knowledge and NVSC still gave them another 30 days.
Boomers, we need to talk. I don’t know what it is about your generation and PDFs, but your behavior cannot continue. Your PDF illiteracy is harming the legal profession in the following ways.
1. When you print off your motion, wet ink sign it, and scan it before filing, you are just creating more work for everyone. You, your poor paralegal, and my office when we have to undo your unnecessary steps via OCR. I know you don’t know what OCR is. Ask your beleaguered paralegal. Or one of your grandkids.
2. There’s no reason why your motion, including exhibits, should be 30 MB. MB have been a common storage metric since Bill Clinton was President, so your age and generation is no excuse here. I don’t know how you people consistently create PDFs so large they consistently risk shutting down the western power grid, but you do. Please stop.
Follow your bliss, you are special, peace, love, endless deficit spending, obesity and whatever else it is your generations digs. In the name of Oprah Winfrey, Amen.
OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is a technology that converts images of text into machine-readable text. It allows you to extract text from scanned documents, images, or PDFs and edit, search, and analyze that text. Essentially, it transforms pictures of words into editable text data.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
How it works:
OCR software analyzes an image of text, identifies the individual characters, and then converts them into a digital text format.
Key benefits:
Editability: Enables editing of scanned documents or images of text.
Searchability: Allows for searching within the text of scanned documents or images.
Data Extraction: Facilitates the extraction of data from documents for further processing.
Accessibility: Helps create accessible documents for people with visual impairments.
Applications:
Document digitization: Converting paper documents into digital formats for easier storage and retrieval.
Data entry automation: Automating the process of extracting information from documents.
I intentionally do this to my more obnoxious opposing counsel to create problems for them.
There’s a method to Boomer madness.
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill
“When you print off your motion, wet ink sign it, and scan it before filing”
Be specific. Do you object to scanning to pdf or scanning one of the image formats?
OP here. There’s ZERO reason anyone in the 8th should be printing off a filing, wet ink signing it, scanning it and then filing. NONE. I object to all that unnecessary work AND the subsequent size of the files. These are two separate and distinct, but related, offenses.
Agreed. In a jurisdiction where e-filing is mandatory for attorneys, there’s no reason to not be using e-signatures and native PDF files. In some jurisdictions, the print, wet-ink sign, and scan regime violates court rules which demand natively generated PDF files whenever possible. Only luddites and jerks insist on continuing to do it that way.
What does “natively generated” mean.
That means the document was digitally created as a pdf. i.e. on a word doc, you go to file and convert to pdf. This is a native pdf file and it is generally searchable as is.
Alternatively, someone can take that same word document and print it, then scan it. Rather than creating a pdf of the actual digital document, this creates a pdf (or other format) of an IMAGE of the document. These documents are not generally searchable, and additional work needs to be done like OCR to make it searchable. Even after and OCR is done, it is a much less reliable than a native pdf.
Hope this helps.
Next, let’s convince the Supreme Court to learn these lessons
Their stuff is always OCR’d, so if they are doing unnecessary busy work by printing, signing and scanning, I really don’t care.
Job security . . . .
” ‘Follow your bliss.’ It reads on my chest.
I knew I got it tattooed for a reason.”
I hate this even worse with discovery requests. Now we gotta OCR it, copy the requests and compare the copy/paste, or retype the darn things. If you do family law, there are attorneys in town (who have been around a very long time) who print & scan proposed decrees. Then when you send back revisions, they do the same thing – so you have to OCR it to do a PDF comparison, or read the whole thing again.
Why do I care if you can OCR my document? Short answer: I don’t.
Sorry. Just wanted you to be able to read my footnotes.