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- Pencil it in on your calendar: some Clark County teachers may strike on September 10. [RJ]
- A complaint suggests that the CCSD superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara expensed a $2500 exercise bike. [RJ]
- Recession jitters are rising. Are you doing anything different just in case? [Las Vegas Sun]
What kind of tomf***ery is the City of Henderson doing? Basic speeding violation: $245 fine.
Attorney Offer of Negotiation: $305 fine and amend to parking. We are INCREASING fines for attorney sessions?
You must not practice much criminal law out there, tomf***ery abounds!!! On a 'minor' domestic violence case the city's investigators will hound/threaten/harass the 'victim' to the ends of the earth. I'm just waiting for the right case for a potential Marcy's Law violation…
I agree with @10:27, you must have done this as a favor and you're not a criminal attorney. The theory is that the defendant would have to pay the fine PLUS pay for and complete a 5-hour (usually) traffic school to get the same reduction to a parking citation. If the attorney does it, some courts will up the fine to "replace" the traffic school, therefore they make more money, and then the defendant gets the same reduction to parking. This has been the practice in a lot of courts for so many years.
@9:05a – the extra $50 is a 'buyout' of the traffic school obligation. LVJC calls it something like a 'level 2 convenience fee' or some BS. Same concept.
9:05 here…..You are right. I do no criminal law and was asked to do an attorney appt for a corporate client. Going back to them and saying "Hey I turned your $245 ticket into a $305 ticket" will not work. Thanks for all of your help.
Wow. I'm up north and in my experience Washoe jurisdictions don't do this. Go Pack!
1:10 – you didn't turn a $245 ticket into $305. You turned $245 + multiple hours of the client's time into $305. All of your clients value their time at more than $10/hr. It's a win.
1:10– I disagree with 2:17. You are faced with the prospect of turning a $245 ticket+ points into a $305 ticket with no points. If the client pays the $245, they don't have to go to traffic school for hours; they just have to take the points.
I used to think Henderson was a little oasis of sanity in crazy corrupt Clark County. Not so much today. It's a clown show, ass clown show, and crazy ass clown show. Where can a sane family live around here?
And POINTS = Insurance increases well in excess of $50
Is it just me or is Delaney late EVERYDAY? Seriously 20-40 minutes late for every hearing
It is just you. She has never been late since taking the bench years ago.
This is like saying the judge is never late because she takes the bench precisely when she means to, right?
@9:33, I'm obviously assuming this is sarcasm and therefore I'm dead right now. LOL. @9:10, yeah Delaney is consistently late anywhere from 20-60 minutes, you must have been practicing for like a minute to ask this.
I like Judge Delaney as a person, but she is late and slow. I haven't had many cases before her lately, but a few years back, she had a backlog of like 9 months on some decisions she needed to get out.
Delaney is one of the few I would vote for again.
A recession is possible, but I'm not changing anything yet. I see all the construction going on and it does remind me of 2006/2007 time period. Wondering which of these projects are going to end up mothballed (again–looking at you Fontainebleau).
I was in law school at the time of the last recession, and therefore relatively shielded from much of the fall out (at least until it was time to get a job after graduation). Because I was in law school, I also didn't have any assets that I needed to worry about. Thankfully my financial situation is drastically different this time. But I'm wondering, assuming a recession is coming, what would you do to protect you from it as much as possible?
I'd take some money out of the stock market and keep more money in cash or in high-yield savings accounts. They basically cover inflation with pretty much no risk.
Recessions are just part of a market economy. Historically, about once every ten years are so. The people who are hurt most by economic down turns and stock market crashes are elderly people who are living off the retirement accounts, IRAs and savings accounts. It's devastating watching your investment accounts drop by half or more when you rely on them to live. If you are younger and don't expect to be retiring for 20 years or more, just wait it out. Pulling out now would be a big mistake. During the last big recession, my retirement accounts drop in half but I kept paying into my 401K every month and was able to pick up shares on the cheap. I am now whole plus have had nice returns during this bull run.
2:29 hit the nail on the head.
I disagree with 2:29 because you assume the person is selling after the stock market crashes. Nobody recommended waiting for the stock market to tank then taking money out. If you really think a recession is looming (like OP said) and are trying to time the market, taking some (not all) of your money out of the stock market (from standard accounts, not 401k where you'll get pounded by penalties) and putting it in low-risk accounts BEFORE the market tanks, then that's a viable strategy. Then you can take that money from your high-value sales, hold it, and buy up stocks cheap once the recession hits. I know CNBC experts claim you can't time the market, but many swings seem awful predictable. You're obviously taking risk that the market won't tank and you'll be stuck with a bunch of cash that you'll have to put somewhere a year or two later, but that's what OP was asking.
Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio and every other top investor says you can’t time the market, but I am sure the guy giving advice or receiving advice on this blog can time the market.
You bet your butt I can.
Blow it up and BK it all. That's what I did last time.
Stockpiling as much cash as I can (mostly by selling a piece of property I bought a couple years ago that has appreciated) so when the recession hits I can buy more property and/or stocks at a nice discount.
The sky is falling! Cash out all of your retirement accounts, stocks and bonds. Buy gold and bury it next to your Casita.
There you go, make fun of someone worried about their
family. You probably live in CarsonCity.
No way. Carson City folk are the Ron Swanson gold bullion types. This is a city comment.
STRIKE! Please, strike. Strike. Strike. Strike. Strike!!!!