Attorney Andrew Leavitt filed a bar complaint in defense of his sister Judge Michelle Leavitt. And there’s a connection to Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson? [RJ; AP]
Opinion: Time to put teeth in Nevada’s public records law. [TNI]
Casinos and restaurants capacities are increasing to 50% of their occupancy today. [RJ]
VP Kamala Harris will be visiting the city today. [RJ]
There's a medical provider who sent an invoice for records at the usual $.60 per page PLUS $100 SERVICE FEE. I believe this is illegal, based on NRS 629.061(4) ("No administrative fee or additional service fee of any kind may be charged for furnishing such a copy.") Has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Any advice? Any firms interested in pursuing a class action maybe?
Tell that to some family court judges. Those people have their paralegals slap together a barely legible motion and get whatever they ask for. I'm thinking about changing my last name.
I do not know anything about this particular Leavitt dispute, but the RJ article paints an interesting picture. Defense counsel identifies trial defects and animatedly alleges conflicts with the presiding judge, tries to get a different venue and judge.
Judge's brother goes after defense counsel's mental health, fitness to practice, and integrity, and apparently tries to retaliate through the State Bar instead of allowing the dispute to be resolved through the actual criminal proceedings? Leavitt, in an ironically pointed public statement to the RJ, accuses defense counsel of trying to embarrass/publicly humiliate his sister.
"Leavitt said that he wanted to defend his sister while she sat on the bench and that neither the judge nor his other family members asked him to file the bar complaint"
Can anyone unpack what is going on here? Does any of this reflect well on any of the Leavittses involved?
Leavitt’s daughter was pimped out allegedly. This defendant was involved and claims that is why certain evidence came in and why his sentence was so harsh. This is not the first time Leavitt has had issues and her brother goes full protection mode. She was not a good attorney and she is an even worse Judge.
You all realize that there are a bajillion Leavitt's in town, right? They are not a monolithic force. There's an old joke that in every one of the 200 or so Mormon wards in Las Vegas there's at least one Leavitt family, one Bunker family and one Stewart family. The joke is funny because it's true. Can attest as I have now lived in four different wards where all three were represented in almost every ward (Leavitts were in all four). But they are all distant, distant cousins who don't necessarily know each other.
Most of the Leavitts are still Mormon, some are not and some are Jack Mormons. In the words of Corb Lund,
"You got the Mormons and the drinkers and the Mormons who drink
Well pay attention 'cause it ain't as simple as you think
They say there's some that don't believe in neither
But I ain't seen 'em yet and my pa ain't neither"
As you can see, Dudley Leavitt had DOZENS of children:
Michelle and Dennis are USELESS and a bane to the Las Vegas Legal Community. Jimmy and Andy are stellar attorneys and good dudes to boot, as was their father, Myron..
Kamala Harris did fail the California Bar the first time she took it. However, she later passed. As we all know, California has a notoriously difficult bar exam. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times wrote that its pass rate "has generally hovered around 50%."
Harris graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989.
Even now, the pass rate on the California Bar Examination averages out to approximately 50%.
I'm more concerned about 11:28 PM's obvious joke appreciating capability…
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Anonymous
March 15, 2021 11:14 pm
Who failed a bar exam:
Hillary Clinton, the 67th Secretary of State, failed the D.C. bar exam on her first attempt but passed the Arkansas bar.
Michelle Obama, the current first lady, failed the IL bar exam on her first attempt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America, failed the New York bar exam on his first attempt.
Jerry Brown, the current governor of California, failed the CA bar exam on his first attempt before passing on his second attempt.
Kathleen Sullivan, former Dean of Stanford Law School, failed the CA bar exam on her first attempt.
Pete Wilson, former governor of California, failed the California bar exam three times before he passed on his fourth try.
Most of the schmucks, goofballs, ambulance chasers, family law hacks, and insurance defense Fungible Billing Units in this town got it on the first try.
JFK Jr. failed the NY Bar two times and had a great quote: "I'm clearly not a major legal genius."
This FBU however, passed three really hard bar exams on his first try each time. Of course, I studied my FBU rear off the first and second times, and half studied for the the third (Nevada). Like JFK Jr "I am clearly not a major legal genius" with an emphasis on "clearly."
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Unknown
March 15, 2021 11:46 pm
So, I am going to put my 2 cents regarding CA bar passage rates. I passed CA on my first try and I passed NV on my first try. All bars are difficult but when someone says that CA is "notoriously difficult," I am going to object. Yes CA bar passage is approximately 50% but so is NV. However the difference is that there are tons of people that take the bar in CA that graduates from non-ABA approved schools. I saw a statistic wherein if you take only the bar examinees from ABA approved schools in CA, the passage rate is 70% to 75%. The non-ABA approved schools in CA brings down the average. In NV, only examinees from ABA approved schools can take the bar. So statistically speaking NV is harder. So you do the math. (but I do not want to take the bar again, even if it is online, open book and you can have help.)
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Ben Nadig
March 16, 2021 12:48 pm
Every so often somebody breaks out this argument. It’s not true. The amount of non ABA approved test takers is less than 10% of the total. It can’t skew the test by that high of a percentage. Additionally, CA has a higher raw score requirement on the MBE, thus requiring more right answers than NV. It’s a tougher test, doesn’t mean NV is easy, but CA is still tougher.
Great posts here about the difference between the CA and NV bar exams. I believe that the difference between the two exams should be based on experience. I took the CA bar exam in the mid 1990s, and passed on the first attempt. I then took the NV bar exam two years later, and that time the exam was only offered once a year. Upon completing the exam, I was pretty depressed thinking that I had failed the bar and would have to wait one full year to retake the exam. Fortunately, I passed the NV bar on that first try. I felt the NV Bar exam was tougher because there were more cross over essay questions and it tested on a few more law subjects (like family law) than CA exam did. My impression was that the NV exam was tougher than the CA exam.
Nevada no longer uses the MBE as a result of the pandemic and remote testing. Don't know if they will bring it back. I took the California Bar back in the day when it was really tough. I had friends who graduated from California Western (ABA) and they kept repeatedly failing the bar. I was worried about the California Bar. As a result of PMBR prep class for the MBE, multistate scores improved. The result was the examiners created the Performance Test which threw students a curve. I showed up for the Attorney's Exam (no MBE but the Examiners know the applicant is from out of state) and passed. The pass rate was abysmal but I passed and did not even study. I am not exaggerting. But I was fresh from the Nevada Bar and Arizona Bar. They have recently dumbed down both the California Bar and Nevada Bar. I have tutored students for the bar exam in California, Nevada, and Arizona. The problem for students today is that they don't know how to write. They don't learn enough basic law in law school. Law Schools don't flunk or wash out poor students. This is left to bar examiners who have now eased up in the name of diversity.
@ 9:36, "how to write" has nothing to do with the bar exam. Regurgitating IRAC as quickly as possible does. Aint no bar examiner sitting there trying to enjoy thousands upon thousands of sloppy essays that could have been slapped together by doctors. They sift through your sloppy handwriting and check mark the IRAC, done. You maybe should not be tutoring? Definitely quit exaggerting.
@9:36 is right on point.
Writing is critical to make the point and move through all of the issues. Bad writers write too much and cannot organize the information, and thereby obtain an inferior score.
TO Mr/Ms. @ 10:14. It is a shame that someone cannot have discussion in which the word diversity is mentioned without being labeled a racist. I occurs to me, and have you considered, that if you see everything through a "race" lens, you might be the racist?
11:42 is obviously a bar examiner. Thank god he stopped by to offer us his learned opinion.
With regard to your so called "race lens"…check out "dog whistle" and "gaslight". When you're done with that you should definitely go to hell with 9:36.
10:14 here – I appreciate that you think I'm a jackass, but if you're going to be all bad and stand with your racist brethren, sign in and post under your real name…take off the hood if you will.
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There's a medical provider who sent an invoice for records at the usual $.60 per page PLUS $100 SERVICE FEE. I believe this is illegal, based on NRS 629.061(4) ("No administrative fee or additional service fee of any kind may be charged for furnishing such a copy.") Has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Any advice? Any firms interested in pursuing a class action maybe?
It is improper. Send a letter. Not worth pursuing a class action and it is questionable whether you can as HHS as enforcement powers.
Is the Leavitt family still a powerful force in Nevada? Methinks not.
Tell that to some family court judges. Those people have their paralegals slap together a barely legible motion and get whatever they ask for. I'm thinking about changing my last name.
I do not know anything about this particular Leavitt dispute, but the RJ article paints an interesting picture. Defense counsel identifies trial defects and animatedly alleges conflicts with the presiding judge, tries to get a different venue and judge.
Judge's brother goes after defense counsel's mental health, fitness to practice, and integrity, and apparently tries to retaliate through the State Bar instead of allowing the dispute to be resolved through the actual criminal proceedings? Leavitt, in an ironically pointed public statement to the RJ, accuses defense counsel of trying to embarrass/publicly humiliate his sister.
"Leavitt said that he wanted to defend his sister while she sat on the bench and that neither the judge nor his other family members asked him to file the bar complaint"
Can anyone unpack what is going on here? Does any of this reflect well on any of the Leavittses involved?
I love it when judges get trailer park on attorneys doing their job. Judges down at the RJC are fucking nuts . Only one or 2 of them are normal.
Leavitt’s daughter was pimped out allegedly. This defendant was involved and claims that is why certain evidence came in and why his sentence was so harsh. This is not the first time Leavitt has had issues and her brother goes full protection mode. She was not a good attorney and she is an even worse Judge.
If a judge is dong that report them. This shit should not be happening.
already missing Bare, Scotti, and Atkin…
I guess you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone. I should have listened to Joni Mitchell when I had the chance.
This is why I don't miss Bonnie Bulla.
"the Leavitt family"
You all realize that there are a bajillion Leavitt's in town, right? They are not a monolithic force. There's an old joke that in every one of the 200 or so Mormon wards in Las Vegas there's at least one Leavitt family, one Bunker family and one Stewart family. The joke is funny because it's true. Can attest as I have now lived in four different wards where all three were represented in almost every ward (Leavitts were in all four). But they are all distant, distant cousins who don't necessarily know each other.
Most of the Leavitts are still Mormon, some are not and some are Jack Mormons. In the words of Corb Lund,
"You got the Mormons and the drinkers and the Mormons who drink
Well pay attention 'cause it ain't as simple as you think
They say there's some that don't believe in neither
But I ain't seen 'em yet and my pa ain't neither"
As you can see, Dudley Leavitt had DOZENS of children:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7056008/dudley-leavitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Leavitt
Michelle and Dennis are USELESS and a bane to the Las Vegas Legal Community. Jimmy and Andy are stellar attorneys and good dudes to boot, as was their father, Myron..
Kamala Harris failed the bar exam.
I think Trump may have, too. COINCIDENCE?!
Trump did not go to law school. Kamala Harris did – and she failed the bar exam.
Kamala Harris did fail the California Bar the first time she took it. However, she later passed. As we all know, California has a notoriously difficult bar exam. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times wrote that its pass rate "has generally hovered around 50%."
Harris graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989.
Even now, the pass rate on the California Bar Examination averages out to approximately 50%.
3:41 — "I think Trump may have, too." I hope to God you're not a lawyer if that is the extent of your fact-checking capability.
I'm more concerned about 11:28 PM's obvious joke appreciating capability…
Who failed a bar exam:
Hillary Clinton, the 67th Secretary of State, failed the D.C. bar exam on her first attempt but passed the Arkansas bar.
Michelle Obama, the current first lady, failed the IL bar exam on her first attempt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America, failed the New York bar exam on his first attempt.
Jerry Brown, the current governor of California, failed the CA bar exam on his first attempt before passing on his second attempt.
Kathleen Sullivan, former Dean of Stanford Law School, failed the CA bar exam on her first attempt.
Pete Wilson, former governor of California, failed the California bar exam three times before he passed on his fourth try.
Who passed the bar exam:
Most of the schmucks, goofballs, ambulance chasers, family law hacks, and insurance defense Fungible Billing Units in this town got it on the first try.
LOLZ. If Trump had taken the bar exam, he would have aced it. We all know it. He's not a liar like the rest.
Pretty sure Michelle Obama is not married to Joe Biden. And Gavin Newsom has an issue with your statement regarding Jerry Brown.
Re 4:20 (how perfect): "insurance defense Fungible Billing Units" winner, winner chicken dinner.
JFK Jr. failed the NY Bar two times and had a great quote: "I'm clearly not a major legal genius."
This FBU however, passed three really hard bar exams on his first try each time. Of course, I studied my FBU rear off the first and second times, and half studied for the the third (Nevada). Like JFK Jr "I am clearly not a major legal genius" with an emphasis on "clearly."
So, I am going to put my 2 cents regarding CA bar passage rates. I passed CA on my first try and I passed NV on my first try. All bars are difficult but when someone says that CA is "notoriously difficult," I am going to object. Yes CA bar passage is approximately 50% but so is NV. However the difference is that there are tons of people that take the bar in CA that graduates from non-ABA approved schools. I saw a statistic wherein if you take only the bar examinees from ABA approved schools in CA, the passage rate is 70% to 75%. The non-ABA approved schools in CA brings down the average. In NV, only examinees from ABA approved schools can take the bar. So statistically speaking NV is harder. So you do the math. (but I do not want to take the bar again, even if it is online, open book and you can have help.)
Every so often somebody breaks out this argument. It’s not true. The amount of non ABA approved test takers is less than 10% of the total. It can’t skew the test by that high of a percentage. Additionally, CA has a higher raw score requirement on the MBE, thus requiring more right answers than NV. It’s a tougher test, doesn’t mean NV is easy, but CA is still tougher.
Great posts here about the difference between the CA and NV bar exams. I believe that the difference between the two exams should be based on experience. I took the CA bar exam in the mid 1990s, and passed on the first attempt. I then took the NV bar exam two years later, and that time the exam was only offered once a year. Upon completing the exam, I was pretty depressed thinking that I had failed the bar and would have to wait one full year to retake the exam. Fortunately, I passed the NV bar on that first try. I felt the NV Bar exam was tougher because there were more cross over essay questions and it tested on a few more law subjects (like family law) than CA exam did. My impression was that the NV exam was tougher than the CA exam.
Nevada no longer uses the MBE as a result of the pandemic and remote testing. Don't know if they will bring it back. I took the California Bar back in the day when it was really tough. I had friends who graduated from California Western (ABA) and they kept repeatedly failing the bar. I was worried about the California Bar. As a result of PMBR prep class for the MBE, multistate scores improved. The result was the examiners created the Performance Test which threw students a curve. I showed up for the Attorney's Exam (no MBE but the Examiners know the applicant is from out of state) and passed. The pass rate was abysmal but I passed and did not even study. I am not exaggerting. But I was fresh from the Nevada Bar and Arizona Bar. They have recently dumbed down both the California Bar and Nevada Bar. I have tutored students for the bar exam in California, Nevada, and Arizona. The problem for students today is that they don't know how to write. They don't learn enough basic law in law school. Law Schools don't flunk or wash out poor students. This is left to bar examiners who have now eased up in the name of diversity.
wtf 9:36 you can't even contribute to the conversation without being a racist? go to hell
@ 9:36, "how to write" has nothing to do with the bar exam. Regurgitating IRAC as quickly as possible does. Aint no bar examiner sitting there trying to enjoy thousands upon thousands of sloppy essays that could have been slapped together by doctors. They sift through your sloppy handwriting and check mark the IRAC, done. You maybe should not be tutoring? Definitely quit exaggerting.
@9:36 is right on point.
Writing is critical to make the point and move through all of the issues. Bad writers write too much and cannot organize the information, and thereby obtain an inferior score.
TO Mr/Ms. @ 10:14. It is a shame that someone cannot have discussion in which the word diversity is mentioned without being labeled a racist. I occurs to me, and have you considered, that if you see everything through a "race" lens, you might be the racist?
11:42 is obviously a bar examiner. Thank god he stopped by to offer us his learned opinion.
With regard to your so called "race lens"…check out "dog whistle" and "gaslight". When you're done with that you should definitely go to hell with 9:36.
10:14 is a jackass. I stand with 9:36.
10:14 here – I appreciate that you think I'm a jackass, but if you're going to be all bad and stand with your racist brethren, sign in and post under your real name…take off the hood if you will.
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