The Supreme Court of Nevada heard oral argument yesterday on whether CCSD email addresses are private or public. [RJ]
A clerical error resulted in the Supreme Court issuing a reversal order in the Citizen’s Outreach case that came to the opposite conclusion of what they released on Monday. Huh? [RJ]
The Las Vegas City Council may have another sneaky way to get the proposed soccer stadium funded. [RJ]
As pointed out in the comments yesterday, this industry roundtable on attorneys is an interesting read. [Nevada Business]
There were several comments about the futures of Gordon & Silver and Half-Price Lawyers, but no one is spilling the details. What will become of the construction defects bar if AB125 passes and completely changes chapter 40? Anyone else have some good rumors or gossip about the Las Vegas legal industry?
The construction defect bar has had its day. Things have been really really really good since the mid 90's. If you played in that playground and weren't able to sock away a big package, shame on you. All good things must come to an end. The only surprising thing has been that it's taken this long. Cry not for the M&M-eating "lawyers", adjusters, mediators, and court-reporters who will lose work as the result of sanity's return. They've had their opportunity.
You know, the CD bar is likely 20% of the overall bar. If CD goes down, then that's a lot of people looking for work. I wouldn't cheer for the death of CD.
The cookie-eating subcontractor attorneys (such as the Helmosaurus) who once freely roamed the earth began going extinct a few years ago when "wrap" policies started becoming the norm. I'm guessing most of the major plaintiff firms have enough inventory to keep them going for another couple of years — until the next legislative session when everything will be back on the table again.
1:27, how would you know? Even if you are Helmosaurus, you don't know who 12:58 is (neither do I; I don't do CD), so we don't know if he gives a f*ck or not. Seems a little oversensitive. BTW, who is Helmosaurus?
I cry for the legal profession. LSC is gone. GS is in trouble. CD attorneys who once made a fabulous living getting paid to stuff donuts down their gullets are facing the end (psst, a good time to short donut stock if CD goes…not ever gonna be enough cops to make up that down slope in demand). Even Half Price Attorneys is going the way of the dodo. The sky is falling. We are doomed. It all started when we allowed UNLV to open a law school.
The path to recovery is clear. Close Boyd. Re-test all Nevada Bar members and cull those who fall left down slope of the 50th percentile mark (oh, don't worry Judges, we'll grandfather/mother you in). We can do this!
By itself UNLV Boyd is not the only cause of the problem. Before Boyd, Western State (a/k/a Thomas Jefferson) was going to open a shop that would have flooded the place with JD's. They don't even require the LSAT. The Boyd law school seemed to be a respectable alternative. Then their grads could not pass the bar exam so it offered twice a year. Then the lowered the pass rate on the bar (changed the formula and made it easier). The Nevada Bar was modeled after the California Bar but is graded easier now. If it was graded the same, the pass rate would be much much lower. The cause of the lawyer glut is the bar exam being given twice a year. You have to consider that Boyd simply took away students from McGeorge, California Western, and places like Southwestern. The difference is that these schools have standards and flunk substandard students. At Boyd everybody is a star and a "B". The bar exam is required to wash out the losers who can't read and write. So in a sense Boyd is the culprit. They need to stop the huge taxpayer subsidy to graduate 150 or so JDs that we don't need. Boyd would not make it and close. Furthermore, our bar dues are used to license freshly minted JDs because the fees don't cover it all. So we lawyers are paying for more JDs. Having a JD is like having a college degree or graduating from the community college. Sorry, that is the worth of JD in this market.
Anon @ 4:36 – Lets address the facts. Where is proof on the grading change? Also, proof that fees don't cover the administration of the bar exam? Further it makes no sense that the lawyer glut is due to a twice yearly bar exam.
Recent Boyd grad here… there is a curve that is consistent with the vast majority of top 100 law schools, and yes, they do ask that certain individuals not meeting grade requirements not return for the second year.
And on the bar exam issue, last I checked, Boyd had a 80-90% pass rate. The bar's overall pass rate is generally in the 50-60%, and wasn't it in the 40's this last go round? And, the NV bar is still known as the third toughest in the country.
Maybe the problem is that the vast majority of law schools ought to realize that bullshit inflated grad school grade curves shouldn't be used? Maybe the focus shouldn't be on making sure the majority of the special snowflakes get grades within a B+ range. Maybe the focus ought to be on raising the standards and culling the herd, which means people who can't hack the demands of a rigorous law school ought to be flunked the fuck out, instead of given a C- and asked not to return?
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February 12, 2015 6:13 pm
The non-responsive answers to the gender gap question is indicative of the enormity of the gender gap. While there may be some valid reasons for the gender gap, in addition to the undeniable discrimination, there can be no dispute that there is indeed a gender gap, yet, several of the attorneys refused to acknowledge it. If you aren't even willing to acknowledge there is a problem, how exactly are you going address it?
Worked for an attorney who would only hire woman because they were cheaper. He actually admitted this. Also told me during the interview he was a clergy member, that should have been a sign right there.
"You didn't make me a woman. I'm just a man with a mutilated penis."
– Mr. Garrison
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February 13, 2015 12:02 am
Douglas and Saitta are wrong to say "magic words" shouldn't count. What then, every time I post something criticizing, say, a brainless AG or sellout Governor, I have to disclose who I am and who pays my bills? The first step to getting rid of something is registration…then regulation…then taxation….then you crush them, or at least pick winners and losers at whim.
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February 13, 2015 12:40 am
On the topic of firms going down, has anybody heard what is going at Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP? I don't think anything has been posted on here, but the number is no longer good, their website is offline, and I got third hand info they had some creditor issues.
So, I get this email yesterday from Robert Eglet for something called "Jury Analyst." I had to laugh, because at the top of the email was a quote attributed to Robert Eglet – "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." However, as almost anyone knows, that quote is properly attributable to Benjamin Franklin.
I guess Bob thinks he is interchangeable with the guy who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Pretty ballsy …
"You wrote that?"
"Yesterday, as a matter of fact."
"It was written by an Earth man named [Franklin] a long time ago!"
"Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!"
Bob has so much money his next goal is to be featured on the hundred dollar bill. Some of the Eighth Judicial, and Supremes already honor tokens from the Bank of Eglet Wall, so his preparation has paid off for him.
The construction defect bar has had its day. Things have been really really really good since the mid 90's. If you played in that playground and weren't able to sock away a big package, shame on you. All good things must come to an end. The only surprising thing has been that it's taken this long. Cry not for the M&M-eating "lawyers", adjusters, mediators, and court-reporters who will lose work as the result of sanity's return. They've had their opportunity.
Woops, forgot "special masters".
You know, the CD bar is likely 20% of the overall bar. If CD goes down, then that's a lot of people looking for work. I wouldn't cheer for the death of CD.
The cookie-eating subcontractor attorneys (such as the Helmosaurus) who once freely roamed the earth began going extinct a few years ago when "wrap" policies started becoming the norm. I'm guessing most of the major plaintiff firms have enough inventory to keep them going for another couple of years — until the next legislative session when everything will be back on the table again.
8:54 a.m. Easier said than done. I spent my cash as fast as it came in.
Helmosaurus….LOL!
He is a douche bag. I love how he thinks that he is the best attorney on the face of the planet.
12:58,
I seriously doubt that Helmosaurus has even heard your name or ever given a single f*ck about you.
1:27, how would you know? Even if you are Helmosaurus, you don't know who 12:58 is (neither do I; I don't do CD), so we don't know if he gives a f*ck or not. Seems a little oversensitive. BTW, who is Helmosaurus?
I cry for the legal profession. LSC is gone. GS is in trouble. CD attorneys who once made a fabulous living getting paid to stuff donuts down their gullets are facing the end (psst, a good time to short donut stock if CD goes…not ever gonna be enough cops to make up that down slope in demand). Even Half Price Attorneys is going the way of the dodo. The sky is falling. We are doomed. It all started when we allowed UNLV to open a law school.
The path to recovery is clear. Close Boyd. Re-test all Nevada Bar members and cull those who fall left down slope of the 50th percentile mark (oh, don't worry Judges, we'll grandfather/mother you in). We can do this!
Helm, Kevin, Helm. Bar examiner, hater of Boyd Law School. He is an ass.
Hi, Kevin.
What ever happened to Charles Pollock? Is he still partnered with Pamela McKay?
By itself UNLV Boyd is not the only cause of the problem. Before Boyd, Western State (a/k/a Thomas Jefferson) was going to open a shop that would have flooded the place with JD's. They don't even require the LSAT. The Boyd law school seemed to be a respectable alternative. Then their grads could not pass the bar exam so it offered twice a year. Then the lowered the pass rate on the bar (changed the formula and made it easier). The Nevada Bar was modeled after the California Bar but is graded easier now. If it was graded the same, the pass rate would be much much lower. The cause of the lawyer glut is the bar exam being given twice a year. You have to consider that Boyd simply took away students from McGeorge, California Western, and places like Southwestern. The difference is that these schools have standards and flunk substandard students. At Boyd everybody is a star and a "B". The bar exam is required to wash out the losers who can't read and write. So in a sense Boyd is the culprit. They need to stop the huge taxpayer subsidy to graduate 150 or so JDs that we don't need. Boyd would not make it and close. Furthermore, our bar dues are used to license freshly minted JDs because the fees don't cover it all. So we lawyers are paying for more JDs. Having a JD is like having a college degree or graduating from the community college. Sorry, that is the worth of JD in this market.
Really? Boyd lets everyone graduate? No curve? Oh my, it is worse than I thought.
Boyd had a curve when I went, and they flunked people out.
Anon @ 4:36 – Lets address the facts. Where is proof on the grading change? Also, proof that fees don't cover the administration of the bar exam? Further it makes no sense that the lawyer glut is due to a twice yearly bar exam.
@4:36 well said. The State Bar of Nevada needs to address this crisis. Bar exam once per year only will do that.
Recent Boyd grad here… there is a curve that is consistent with the vast majority of top 100 law schools, and yes, they do ask that certain individuals not meeting grade requirements not return for the second year.
And on the bar exam issue, last I checked, Boyd had a 80-90% pass rate. The bar's overall pass rate is generally in the 50-60%, and wasn't it in the 40's this last go round? And, the NV bar is still known as the third toughest in the country.
Maybe the problem is that the vast majority of law schools ought to realize that bullshit inflated grad school grade curves shouldn't be used? Maybe the focus shouldn't be on making sure the majority of the special snowflakes get grades within a B+ range. Maybe the focus ought to be on raising the standards and culling the herd, which means people who can't hack the demands of a rigorous law school ought to be flunked the fuck out, instead of given a C- and asked not to return?
The non-responsive answers to the gender gap question is indicative of the enormity of the gender gap. While there may be some valid reasons for the gender gap, in addition to the undeniable discrimination, there can be no dispute that there is indeed a gender gap, yet, several of the attorneys refused to acknowledge it. If you aren't even willing to acknowledge there is a problem, how exactly are you going address it?
Worked for an attorney who would only hire woman because they were cheaper. He actually admitted this. Also told me during the interview he was a clergy member, that should have been a sign right there.
women
What are you babbling about?
Excuse me, I am talking about you!
I prefer to use the traditionally correct term of sex not gender.
"You didn't make me a woman. I'm just a man with a mutilated penis."
– Mr. Garrison
Douglas and Saitta are wrong to say "magic words" shouldn't count. What then, every time I post something criticizing, say, a brainless AG or sellout Governor, I have to disclose who I am and who pays my bills? The first step to getting rid of something is registration…then regulation…then taxation….then you crush them, or at least pick winners and losers at whim.
On the topic of firms going down, has anybody heard what is going at Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP? I don't think anything has been posted on here, but the number is no longer good, their website is offline, and I got third hand info they had some creditor issues.
It is dead.
So, I get this email yesterday from Robert Eglet for something called "Jury Analyst." I had to laugh, because at the top of the email was a quote attributed to Robert Eglet – "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." However, as almost anyone knows, that quote is properly attributable to Benjamin Franklin.
I guess Bob thinks he is interchangeable with the guy who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Pretty ballsy …
Ben Franklin: "….the guy who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States."
Did you pick up that nugget of history in Con Law I at Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, sir? Interesting!
He's just channeling his inner Trekkie:
"You wrote that?"
"Yesterday, as a matter of fact."
"It was written by an Earth man named [Franklin] a long time ago!"
"Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!"
Bob has so much money his next goal is to be featured on the hundred dollar bill. Some of the Eighth Judicial, and Supremes already honor tokens from the Bank of Eglet Wall, so his preparation has paid off for him.