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It is a time for remembrance about Grant Sawyer (building). Can we share our fondest memories? I will start who could forget the fresh smell of the ocean that greeted you when using the restrooms.
My favorite memory of it was when it was called Fantasy Park and I used to climb on the locomotive and the rocket ship shaped jungle gym.
Why did they shut it down and move all the offices? The building is older but not super old, correct?
Shit like this is why Vegas continues to not have a decent, central core of a downtown
There have been reports for years of construction defects, mold and a host of other problems.
Besides, its the State. They have unlimited funds with which to implode and rebuild or renovate and become a landlord. There is no such thing as Money.
Monday’s conversation about student loans was compelling.
Or, . . . . naaaah.
That “conversation” was like dialogue written by David Mamet.
Folks have strong opinions.
Is the State Bar sniffing glue? Are they making the Bar exam easier? Did I read this correctly? With the crop we’ve got now? Really? This is shocking. Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy.
Exactly. No more difficult than getting a real estate license.
The OJT portion is foolish. A firm will put the guy/gal in an out of the way cubical and occasionally invite him or her to shadow a hearing or go to lunch. The present “mentoring” requirement is a joke, and the expansion by the new rule is just plain dumb.
Do you have to graduate from an accredited professional school to sit for the real estate exam?
I don’t really get why people keep making that comparison.
Actually RED approves schools for you to attend, so I guess you could say that they are accredited. Which after 150 hours, you get a certificate of completion of the hours and take the test. Then you apply to the RED for a license.
(FYI for others, RED is the Nevada Real Estate Division)
@ 3:12 “I don’t really get why people keep making that comparison.”
There are two answers to your question. Law schools are trending to admit less qualified students. The curriculum is being dumbed down and less rigorous, in part to show a statistic of high graduation rates and fewer wash outs. (Sorry Boyd, your guilty too).
The bar exam, like the RE exam, is about licensing, not prior education. Granted, a JD is a prerequisite. An easier bar exam may result in more admittees. However the goal should not be quantity over quality. Saying that there are already poorly represented clients in Nevada should not be an excuse to increasing the pool of marginal attorneys in practice.
As to the number of attorneys per capita. Consider, Nevada is one of the fastest growing states in terms of population. We can expect the per capita number of attorneys, CPA’s and doctors to lag a few years behind the population curve.
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Sorry dudes. Nevada’s prohibitive bar has done little other than limit the services of lawyers for people who need them. Nevada has one of the lowest ratios of lawyers to population in the nation.(https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/news/2023/potlp-2023.pdf).
And let’s get real real. The quality of the bar here has never been that high. Despite the exclusionary bar exam, about 20% of the lawyers here in town are decent, and I imagine the ratio will stay the same even if the bar let’s in a few more lawyers.
Very few people outside the state think of Nevada as high-level legal practice state, and very few lawyers from Nevada have gained significant distinction in other state and federal courts. The need for lawyer services outweighs the risk of having a few more less than stellar attorneys.
Most of the complaints about new admittees are not really about quality, they are more likely about competition for those who have trouble competing.
Sorry Babs or Babs minion. You want people to have greater access to more shitty lawyers? The complaints this time are about lowering the standards and forcing us to deal with incompetents as opposing counsel and as judges. And the advocating about lowering the standards is really about providing more staffing for LACSN, as your statement indicates. The “prohibitive bar” “the exclusionary bar exam”. It’s too hard! Lol. What was the phrase Law Dawg used the other day? Oh yeah: Cry Baby.
Also, more lawyers (as has been mentioned) means more dues. More shitty lawyers means more targets for OBC, more investigations and more proceedings. All in all a win for bullshit big bureaucracy that is the SBN.
One of the lowest? I guess, in that they are in the lowest quartile.
But Look at surrounding states, and see we are right there.
New Mexico 2.6 per thousand
Utah 2.5 per thousand
Nevada 2.4 per thousand
Idaho and Arizona 2.1 per thousand.
The median is 3 per thousand. so not that far off.
It’s not really about ratios and certainly not about adequately serving the public, my dude. It’s about diversifying (allowing people to get licenses on the first try who really shouldn’t) and so that a bunch of them can join the publicly-funded payroll of LACSN.
None of this is accurate or true.
That’s like saying the requirement that doctors understand anatomy is inhibiting the public from receiving medical services.
Benchmarks are in place to protect the public and the profession. Incompetent counsel cannot provide services to anyone and allowing incompetent counsel to practice does nothing to benefit the public.
Please, someone more intelligent that I am, write a nice letter to the Court commenting on the proposed rule. If anything, the exam should be more difficult. It is a knowledge test and it should be rigorous.
More members = More dues; More dues = More money; More money = More power for the people at OSB. Also, The academics and academic administrators love it when the barriers to entry are removed. It’s definitely an ongoing slouch.
Lowering the barrier to entry – helps those who can’t, hurts the public whom they will serve.
The dumbshit attorneys will then wind up becoming dumbshit judges. Fun times.
Y’all are hilarious. The work is largely meritocratic. Anyone unfit to the job is not likely to keep it for long.
I’ve worked with a few attorneys who I didn’t like or was not impressed by, but I’ve never seen anyone hold down a job who was incompetent.
Old people always think every new generation is worse than them in every way. You can set your clock by these takes.
OK Zoomer
>Old people always think every new generation is worse than them in every way. You can set your clock by these takes.
100%
>“Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt…”
– Letter in Town and Country magazine republished in Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, 1771
>“They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
– Rhetoric, Aristotle, 4th Century BC
>“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.”
– Rhetoric, Aristotle, 4th Century BC
Every time I check this page it reeks of a balding, still-doing-doc-review ass senior associate who just witnessed a gen z attorney have a good point in front of a partner. Cope <3
I have yet to meet a gen z attorney making a point, let alone a good point in front of a partner. Reach into your backpack between hearings and grab a swallow from your Stanley cup and a tissue to wipe those tears.
How does one get a copy of the ADKT Order inviting public comment for the State Bar’s proposal to change exam rules? The download link on the Supreme Court’s website is not working and states that you must contact the Clerk’s Office. Does anyone have a copy that can be posted on this blog site?
I just downloaded it. Go to the case search site. Enter “ADKT 0594” in the Case number.
Or use this link: https://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/public/caseView.do?csIID=63512
Download the Order from the case docket.
Get as high as you can with your preferred style of indica before reading so that you will be mellow, instead of writing an angry letter.
So I get an ad today that states it can help you steal Dimopolous and Naqvi’s web traffic. This might be relevant to the guy yesterday who decided that he would just like his slice of the PI market.
“Online advertising platforms like Meta, Google, Bing, Tiktok, etc. NOW PRIORITIZE ads that are MOST RELEVANT to a user’s online search queries and online behaviors.
So all those Personal Injury giants like Dimopoulos & Naqvi who have MONSTER budgets CAN’T COMPETE with the smaller Nevada firms who ACTUALLY know what they’re doing with online ads.”
https://injury.fizzimedia.com/
Go away
I was actually ridiculing this garbage, Napoleon. Right over your head.
You got the unsolicited spam too? You should use them.