- Quickdraw McLaw
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We interrupt all of the election related posts to discuss a slightly lighter topic: wall art in the office. What do you have on the walls of your office? Is it all diplomas and law licenses? Is there art? A mixture of both? Are there any rules about what you should or shouldn’t have on your office walls? What have you seen that makes you cringe? Also related, what do you use for your Zoom background? A blank wall? A decorated wall? A bookcase full of law books?
Cannot get a hold of anyone at federal court clerk's office. Okay.
Some of the tackiest wall art can be found in the courtrooms of the RJC. (Looking at you, Judge Israel).
Judge Delaneys DAMN dog pictures!!!
Art, diplomas, and plants. Cringe-worthy office décor? All those cheesy "awards" you have to pay for. So dorky, but I guess clients like that garbage.
Off topic here and sort of related to the legal area:
I have a client who is an investor and wants to know about UCC filings with the Clark County Recorder.
The UCC forms used don't have a requirement that the lienholder actually type in the amount owed. Is there any way via public access to get the actual amount owed to a lienholder, short of calling the creditor itself?
Yes. Secretary of State.
The late, great Bucky Buchanan's "cheetah resting in a tree with its kill" is the GOAT.
https://www.buchanandefenselaw.com/about
Attorneys should be aware that certain décor might not impress certain types of clients.
For example, I had a colleague whose practice included Commercial Law and he had a couple somewhat stuffy, yet clearly high end,clients.
His office was completely engulfed with life size models of the various Star Trek characters. And most prominently featured(far more prominently than any of his diplomas) and something he always proudly boasted about and brought to the attention of all his clients, as well as co-counsel and opposing counsel,is that he had these two degrees from something called the Star Trek Institute, or something like that.
The degree he was most proud of, and that he waxed eloquently on to anyone who ever entered his office, was the degree he received from such Institute for mastering the Klingon language. For those who don't know, Klingons were a race of aggressive, warring alien beings who often served as foes to the Star Trek protagonists. So, the language of Klingon of course does not really exist, except within the fanciful realm of the imaginary Star Trek universe.
Myself, and people who knew him well, viewed all this as somewhat quirky in an eccentrically charming way. But his high end clients, and the senior partners, did not view it that way. They thought this all indicated he is not a sufficiently serious attorney if he advertises that his life is dominated by something so seemingly frivolous and fanciful.
The senior partners ordered him to remove all this from his office. But he did not comply quickly enough, and that cost them a couple prominent clients(or, at least, the firm claimed it did), and they then quickly fired my colleague.
I doubt think are too many stories where an attorney's office décor caused such damage and harm, but at least in this case it supposedly did.
Not a Trekkie, but Klingon actually is a real language, albeit constructed (like Esperanto). So learning to speak it is actually a feat (although a pointless one).
The Klingons were only the foes in the original Star Trek. In TNG and later series they were allies of the Federation. Don't you people know anything?
Look on wiki for "Klingon Language."
Go to the section titled "Speakers."
One fluent speaker was raising his son to speak Klingon as his primary language, and largely ignored and discouraged the boy learning any English.
The mother fiercely objected and wanted the boy raised to primarily speak English, and not Klingon.
Who do you think won that custody dispute? You are correct. Do you believe the judge was unduly prejudiced against the parent who wanted his child primarily raised to speak that foreign tongue?
the late great bucky buchanan.
Think of all those guilty people he was able to get off, and back on the street. Great indeed.
Guilty until proven not guilty.
I never met Bucky Buchanan, but I heard two anecdotes, that I choose to believe as true. One is that he swore by going to strip clubs to stir up business because "they all have money and they all have problems." The other is that he'd send away prostitutes that couldn't pay the retainer, and they'd regularly just go visit a John and come back shortly thereafter.
12:36, you sound like a disgruntled, marginally educated and ill-informed right-wing lay person.
We continue to have these types of posts here, so I assume lay people are reading the blog and weighing in, as I truly hope actual lawyers have at last some minimal understanding of the constitutional underpinnings concerning the rights of the accused.
I beg to differ, 2:01.
I had 12:36 pegged as a butt-hurt prosecutor.
I've never been a prosecutor. But I could imagine that it I were a prosecutor, I might get upset seeing a person I thought was guilty walk free. I understand the constitutional argument, but one of the reasons a person chooses to be a prosecutor is to "clean up the streets" or whatever. And if a guy is walking free because a witness went silent on you, or a juror went rogue on you, I could see being pissed about it.
I have pretty much only represented defendants in my criminal cases, so my perspective is different.
My Bucky anecdote: Doug Smith (judge now Utah DA) was driving and thought he saw a drunk driver. He followed him to his house. Took a while for the cops to get there. Guy is drunk and gets arrested. Guy hires Bucky. Defense is that he was being followed by somebody, scared him so bad he started drinking when he got home. NOT GUILTY
That's pretty great. A pretty similar thing happened with a guy that hit me about 20 years ago when I was a freshman in college. He told the cops he started drinking after the accident, and the cops threw up their hands and said they couldn't prove it was a lie. The insurance company also wouldn't pay because his girlfriend was the insured and she said the guy that hit me wasn't authorized to use the car. I wonder whatever happened with them.
Speaking of prostitutes,
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/state-bar-of-nevada-reprimands-las-vegas-lawyer-with-troubled-past-2149025/
I have no idea how this guy keeps getting third and fourth chances.
Best wall art that I have seen in an attorney's office. Family Lawyer with a framed picture that stated "keep in touch with your ex." Picture of a rag doll with a needle going through it. I appreciated the levity, but never had the gumption to hang something similar in my office.
2:15pm That's like seeing a framed divorce decree on the wall…
Get a life, Voldemort
I presume this is a reference to the fact that Ghibaudo was paying illegal referral fees to Sanson? Not sure why you would think Sanson would draw attention to an article that is not favorable to him.
I eshew all office decorations. Wife tried to decorate and I blew my lid. I meet clients in conference room with banal wall art.
My home office, however, is wall to wall bookcases, and tasteful portraits of my favorite authors.
I work in government so i don't have to impress clients. It has become a shrine to most of my sports memorabilia. This all used to be housed in my home office, but after having a baby we had to kind of change the theme and then the sports memorabilia had nowhere to go but downtown. Also, as everyone else does, I have the diplomas and various bar admissions.