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- According to one source, UNLV’s Boyd Law has the top small law job placement rate in the country. [preLaw p. 26]
- Henderson City Attorney Nicholas Vaskov got a bonus. [RJ]
- Things are heating up between teachers and the CCSD school board. [TNI]
- Nevada is among the top states for holders of “fiance visas.” [Las Vegas Sun]
"Join us as we discuss the topic of reciprocity in Nevada with State Bar of Nevada’s Past President Rick Pocker. This engaging seminar will feature a video of a recent Lincoln-Douglas style debate on reciprocity and explore the responses the state bar received to its statewide survey, and ask you to form your own opinions as well."
In other words, "We heard your opinions loud and clear but we would ask you to form your opinions again because we are going to shove this down your throats. So this time, make your opinions in line with what we want because we are going to do it anyway."
The Horror! an actual discussion of an issue that most don't have a clue about! Why would I want to be informed?
Bing against reciprocity means we do have a clue! I don't need toe Bar to explain it to me in the NSC narrative! You people cannot even handle your own cases properly!
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I agree that it is ok to being opposed to reciprocity, but I also do not think people understand what is actually being discussed. I actually took the time to look at it. I am still opposed but it was not at all what I thought it was.
…What did you think it was?
I read it. I understood exactly what was being proposed. This narrative from the State Bar of "(1) here is what we propose; (2) people read it; (3) people say that they do not want it; (4) well you must not have read it because if you did you will want what we are going to do anyway" is getting old. We read it. We do not like it. We told you that we did not like it. No means no.
Fuck this shit. Thanks NSC. We are in the business of obliterating small law firms. Good ales.
We want to thank Andrew Craner for fulfilling his promises, and for the being the Price Waterhouse for ballots on reciprocity. Thank you for alphabetizing them.
Wtf, were they really alphabetized? Get a life.
Alternatively, the Bar is trying to get a feel for what people actually think about reciprocity because the survey was too vague to be of any real value..
The vagueness is purposeful. Dean Dan Hamilton and others not engaged in private practice are trying to fuck us over and sell us up the river.
Dean Dean meet Mr. Fist.
Being sold up the river would be an improvement. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/27/265421504/what-does-sold-down-the-river-really-mean-the-answer-isnt-pretty
1:32, thank you for the laugh.
I like Dean Dean better than Dean Dan
Dan
No offense to anyone, please. But my experience has been that Boyd Law graduates are not superstars and pretty much the same caliber as those of third tier law schools. Of course, I haven't worked with all third tier law school graduates nor all Boyd grads.
@6:59, respectfully, you're full of shit. My experience is that most Boyd have skills and talent that put them on the right side of a bell curve. Most are excellent writers too.
So a Boyd grad thinks they are great.
As a longtime LV lawyer, who practiced before Boyd, let me assure you 6:59 is spot on.
Boyd grads are way to the left of the curve in skill, knowledge and ability.
However, in the category of a**hole lawyers, whose only skill is yelling, unreasonable and spurious litigation, and whining, they are on the far right edge.
Well said.
Here we go with the Boyd wars again. I went to Boyd, and some of the Boyd lawyers suck. Seems to be fine with flat out lies to the court.
11:32 am "Most are excellent writers too."
Exactly my point 11:32, you are apparently a Boyd alum and do not recognize cogent on point writing as opposed to throw everything against the wall and let's see what sticks. The latter approach seems to be the one that Boyd grads favor.
There some very good Boyd lawyers, and more that are very bad. As I pointed out, most fall in the middle, about the average of tier three schools. BTW – I am a tier 3 grad and there is no knock here on that basis. It's just that the political side of Boyd, including the Dean, way over rate the quality of the Boyd education.
I went to a much better school than Boyd and IME Boyd grads are just about where you would expect them to be. On average, I think they are better than the typical TTT/TTTT grads, about on par with the USD/Loyola types, a little worse than the UofA/ASU/Utah St./BYU grads, and a lot worse than the USC/UCLA grads. I only know a handful of grads in Nevada from schools better than USC/UCLA(basically H/S/B grads) and they are all very good attorneys.
I don't get the Boyd hate though, especially when we have so many bad lawyers from truly awful schools.
And just to clarify, I am speaking about median talent coming from these schools. I know some very, very good lawyers from TT/TTT schools, but I imagine the ones I am thinking of are all from the right tail of their respective schools' talent pools.
Who gives a shit? It is Sunday. Why would you cars where a lawyer went to lawshool???
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Where did Alexis Plunkett go to school? She's a good lawyer.
Not Boyd
I went to Southwestern Law School, and I discuss other attorneys on here to make them look bad.
Utah State has a law school?
No.
But Utah State is a better school than UNLV. Thank you for the chuckle.
My bad. Meant Utah.
2:13PM, I appreciate your comments, and generally agree. I think the Boyd hate stems from two areas. Those of us who interact with a large sample of Boyd grads speak from our unpleasant experiences–their lack of legal knowledge coupled with a high degree of arrogance and pretentiousness. Add to that an annual influx of hundreds of unqualified lawyers squeezing an already saturated market and you begin to understand the animus.
There is a third reason: Dean Dan Hamilton's campaign to force reciprocity on us so that he can climb in the US News & World Report law school rankings. That's the main reason I hold contempt for UNLV Law.
Here is the other reason: Boyd Grads shove it in your face as if it should be a source of pride. This is common in any metropolitan area where grads of the local school(s) wear it as a badge of civic pride. The truth is that there are some pretty good lawyers that have come out of Boyd; the majority are lackluster hacks. I will also say that the quality of the grads seem to ebb and flow.
My former law clerk went to UNLV. She wss smart and a good writer. It just depends on the person, not the law school.
2013, BEEYATCH.