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- Justice Hardesty on training judges to hear water cases. [TNI]
- A proposed law to break up CCSD is one step closer to reality. [Nevada Current]
- The pause on student loan repayments will pause while legal battles play out over forgiveness. [Nevada Current]
- 5 years prison, $2.5 million restitution for Las Vegas covid fraud. [RJ]
- What else is happening out there today?
How many days until Justice Hardesty retires?
Too fkg many.
CCSD
Anyone know the ratio of administrators to teachers? I suspect the admin side is top heavy both in numbers and salaries.
As the effort to break up CCSD moves forward, you'll see administrators like Jesus Jara making arguments that a break up will harm the most disadvantaged students. This is an incredibly disingenous argument. These administrators argue from a place of self interest, using the plight of disadvantaged as a pretext. If you go look at the numbers, in terms of graduation rates, nobody is harmed more by CCSD's status quo that poor and minority students. Their graduation rates are abysmal. We do not, we cannot tolerate and continue that status quo.
I learned just recently that CCSD admin has a separate union than CCSD teachers. I'm very unknowledgeable about unions, but this also seems like a potential issue.
Is this why teachers get shafted but admins get paid well?
There are some jurisdictions that defeated police unions by ending their current police department and then establishing a new one that every officer had to apply to as a new hire. I wonder if that would be the same effect here. I don't believe a new district would have any obligations to either the teachers union or the administrators union. This might be why administrators will fight so hard to stop the CCSD breakup. Personally, I would prefer my new smaller district to hire ZERO administrators from CCSD. The newer, smaller districts should hire administrators from the outside who can bring in fresh perspective and culture.
Teachers and admins have separate unions because their interests are not aligned. Admins get paid well and teachers get shafted because admins decide who much to pay whom, and admins determine that admins have harder and more important jobs so they deserve more pay than teachers.
Who does everyone recommend for estate planning for high worth individuals? Expertise with Nevada Asset Protection Trusts would be required. I understand that there are pros and cons with Nevada Asset Protection Trusts. Thanks in advance.
Jeff Cooper at Michaelson Law. CPA in addition to being top-notch estate planning attorney. Has handled a lot of high worth clients extremely well.
Tim Riley at Aguirre Riley
Find a firm that has attorneys who either also have a tax LLM or who are also CPAs. The higher value the estate, the more benefit the person gets from tax planning.
Good advice. I agree. I just looked and Michaelson Law apparently has not yet added Cooper's bio to their website, but I know that he previously worked for a tax law firm, in Washington, D.C.-area I believe. I presume he has a LinkedIn profile where you can verify that if you want. Happy hunting!
Andy Cox at Gerrard Cox Larsen
What are the best books you've read on leadership? Particularly those books that helped you better manage people and cases in a law firm?
The subtle art of not giving a f***.
"Letting Your Purple-Helmeted Soldier of Love Make Decisions" by Lou B. Herup
Go with jocko willick
So, the NSC submitted a Bill Draft Request for SB 55. It does a number of things, like closes Justice and Muni Courts on holidays, and other stuff I just can't care about. It does, however, insert a $5 charge per term for searching on an electronic case management system. Now, maybe that means if you send in a request for the poor JC clerk to research "Jones, Jim" they get to collect their fee. I fear it will be interpreted to impose a fee for searches using Odyssey.
Utah charges per search and it's absurd. Keep Nevada open and free.
Agree – this is rotten and it will turn into a nickel and dime operation that makes public access to docket information too costly for normal people.
That is absurd. With all the fees and taxes I pay just to keep the doors open, you'd think they would not monetize basic public information. Information should flow as freely as possible — emphasis on FREE
Concur that it is absurd to charge for access like this.
The student loan payment pause hasn't been paused. The pause has been continued.
I'm old enough to remember when I predicted the student loan pause would keep being extended.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/las-vegas-lawyer-and-former-deputy-attorney-general-ordered-disbarred-2681837/