Attorneys Should Try To Be Jurors At Least Once
Nonetheless, after sitting through hours of voir dire (I had the feeling that my questionnaire had been placed at the bottom of the pile and I would only be picked if every potential juror in the...
View ArticleBank of America Forecloses Without Mortgage
Grodensky contacted the local news media, he could not even get a response from Bank of America, the law firm which handled the foreclosure, Florida Default Law Group, or the title insurance company,...
View ArticleI Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
Some thought it was the anthem of the Women’s Movement; others, like myself, thought it was just a song with a catchy tune.
View ArticleBidding Adieu to Duke City
Here are some thoughts about Duke City (the moniker derived from Viceroy Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, the Duke of Alburquerque, for whom Albuquerque was named, the “r” being dropped because an...
View ArticleMamas, Don't Let Your Little Bully Grow Up To Be ....
I say she was “seemingly obsessed” with this senior partner because her rhetoric was merely a pretext to make her targets, lower level women attorneys, uncomfortable as a potential object of the senior...
View ArticleForeclosure Fraud In Four Part Dissonance
Aptly titled “Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies”, this series is must read reading for any attorney involved with consumer law, real property and securities regardless of his or her sophistication.
View ArticleCastration, Emasculation and Misguided "Feminists"
I am speaking of Sarah “cajones” Palin, aka Sarah “impotent, limp, lame-stream media” Palin, when referring to President Obama and the news media; Christine “this is not a bake sale, put on your man...
View ArticleDropping the M-Bomb Is for Losers
It’s that bitchy little phrase in which a pol chides an opponent to “man up”, “put on your man pants”, or simply comes right out and says that a man lacks “cajones”.
View ArticleWells Fargo Repossesses Auto Without Title
It was not until the homeowner contacted the local news media did Bank of America respond to the homeowner’s inquiries.
View ArticleDo Anti-Smoking Laws Really Curb Smoking?
In the Fall 2010 issue of WYA’s newsletter, A More Definitive Statement, I wrote about California municipalities which have adopted smoke-free multiunit housing laws.
View ArticleNew! Media Blog for WYA
I recently launched another blog site which is really just a landing site for all my digital media.
View ArticleGirls Just Wanna Have Fun! (Guys, Too!)
For example, did you know there is such a thing as the “Belly Button Rule” which demonstrates the listener’s interest by the position of the person’s belly button in relation to the speaker?
View ArticleWhat Were They Thinking?
Now, it seems a person (the gender is in dispute) has been arrested for impersonating a doctor and giving breast exams to women in bars in Boise, Idaho.
View ArticleThe Business of Lawyers
The bottom line is that lawyers are not in business because of the process (and the very reason that Legal Process Outsourcing, or “LPOs”, will never compete with good lawyering), lawyers are in the...
View ArticleInternet Ambulance Chasers
Aside from the fact that this is just plain tasteless insofar as it employs a family’s tragedy to drum up business, it is no different than that old fashioned ambulance chasing lawyer of bygone days.
View ArticleThe Hub - Collaborative Office Space
Collaborative office space, co-working accommodations, or a place for freelance professionals, not-for-profit and for-profit businesses and startups can hang — It’s called The Hub and there are at...
View ArticleShow Me the Money!
Perhaps these Wall Street types are more thin skinned than I realize; President Obama hurt their feelings and like Newt Gingrich in a hissy fit because he did not have a seat in the front of Air Force...
View ArticleA Reader Writes
When you compare that to, say, Sarah “Thanks But No Thanks” Palin’s Alaska, which paid only $5,434 per capita in federal taxes that same year, yet received a whooping $13,950 per capita of benefits...
View ArticleGet Lean and Mean, Dump Your Boss
There are lots of resources listed in the book that will tell you how to get your name out there for free, “free” being one of my favorite words.
View ArticleComments Are Working Again!
As soon as I finish posting, I am going to send an email to Wibiya to tell them that my relationship with its tech support has run its course.
View ArticleWhat Goes 'Round, Comes 'Round
So when an attorney that I had worked for on the Left Coast got into a jam after taking on a case where the client was “slow” pay, I thought about what others had done, and were doing, for me.
View ArticleBe Kind to One Another in the New Year!
While everyone digs out of the snow — I absolutely had to go to the grocery store this afternoon and an incredibly nice man shoveled the snow away from my car for me so I could get out of my parking...
View ArticleIs There An Ethical Obligation Here?
It was her reasoning that reading journals and such was very good to keep up on black letter law, but you would never know what was making the tax profession tick without a little face-to-face...
View ArticleFood For Thought
On a more serious note, I posted about vacancies on the federal bench on another blog.
View ArticleThey All Ask,"What's Your Authority?" Anyway
Yes, a student had a gut reaction as to whether a criminal defendant had any mitigating circumstances which would not make him or her guilty of first degree murder, or whatever the hypothetical...
View ArticleClients Waiting On Your Doorstep
How would you like start the first day of your new solo practice with prospective clients waiting for you to open your doors?
View ArticleFederal Judicial Vacancies At Emergency Levels
There is a tsunami of federal criminal cases pending which many federal district courts find difficult at best, and at times impossible, to manage.
View ArticleModifying the Course, But Not the Destination
For certain, the structures that I was a part in the making were not on the scale of the Hoover Dam, but they were well built and good looking.
View ArticleAnnouncement: Now On CDRS Panel
I will be writing about this more later as well as my opinion about the future of alternative dispute resolution services in light of severe budget cuts to both state and federal courts.
View ArticleWhen One Party Fritters Away Tax Dollars
So why has this GOP lead House of Representatives decided to fritter away more than $3 million dollars its first three weeks on political stunts and symbolism?
View ArticleAnger the Drug of Choice, or Merely a Red Herring?
What we have heard over and over again in this Great Recession is that globalization is the enemy, the Chinese monetary system is the enemy, and cheap labor outside our borders is the enemy.
View ArticleYou Be the Judge, Rate Your Law Practice
That amazing duo, Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle and Lisa Solomon of Legal Research and Writing Pro, have co-authored a lawyer self-assessment, Should You Outsource to a Contract Lawyer?
View ArticleCan't Give It Away For Free
Well, the bottom line was this new director told me to leave my resume with the doorman and then she would make a determination as to whether I was “qualified” to do pro bono work.
View ArticleRemember When The Tax Code Was Simplified?
Aside from the fact that the attorneys this software seeks to replace do not work for pricey law firms, but rather work for agencies as “contract” attorneys, there is no evidence to support whether...
View ArticleLexis Shoots Itself In the Foot
What this means is that small firms that do not have a need for an online legal information retrieval subscription, but wish to purchase a pass for a finite amount of time are out of luck when it comes...
View ArticleNot So Fast On Those Atlanta Crime Statistics
I do not know if I like Atlanta or not since all that I have done while here is work, witness a horrible accident in which a pedestrian was hit in a crosswalk, and had my car’s catalytic converter...
View ArticleNickel-and-Diming Clients Is Dumb
And invariably, after requesting why the file was reviewed, I would find that this attorney had not received any correspondence or telephone calls from opposing counsel, but that it was just “good...
View ArticleHave Laptop, Will Travel
Frankly, I do not see a great deal of difference in their type of practice from those trying to build a solo law practice today, except it is probably easier today since the solo can work from home and...
View ArticleWanted: Retired Attorney With Low Expectations
South Africa is giving India a run for its money in LPO, Ecuador completed an oil deal last week with China, Panamanian attorneys recently negotiated a joint venture to develop hydrokinetic water...
View ArticleWhen Your Hired Gun Refuses to Lock and Reload
Not only did I not take the bait, but I realized he did not know the answer to my request as the only attorneys on the list were in-house counsel for the client.
View ArticleR-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means To Me
My grandfather, a barber, worked six days a week, twelve hours a day, for fifty years; I understood that they had earned the right to live a structured life even though I wanted to wear flowers in my...
View ArticleDear (Contact First Name)
The bottom line is (I just started reusing that phrase from my 1970s B-school days), if you are going to market your services, whether it is an email blast or a face-to-face contact, get the person’s...
View ArticleSpectacularly Stupid Statements
As this former insurance defense lawyer unloaded her fury at being let go from a job she had held for many years, she bellowed, “remember when we were growing up and we were told that if you got a job...
View ArticleYour Cleanest Dirty Shirt
By convincing your client that s/he may have to wear the cleanest dirty shirt, i.e., that newly maligned word “compromise”, your client may not win everything, but will come out of the process with a...
View ArticleEnduring the Humbling Experience of E-Discovery
When I asked another recipient, also someone this young women met on a document review project, if she, too, was taken aback, she shrugged and said, “well, now she can find out what it’s like enduring...
View ArticleWalk Like a Politician
And, I find it somewhat amusing that GOP operatives have never been able to produce that video they claimed they had in 2008 of Michelle Obama “screaming her fool head off about ‘whitey’” when today we...
View ArticleI Have a Crush on El Presidente
What I do know is that he is a software developer who makes applications for RapidWeaver themes (this blog was created using a RapidWeaver theme as a template) and he calls his business El Stacko.
View ArticleWho Do You Belong To, Little Lady?
Granted, Clayton Yeutter was not the sharpest tool in the box, but when men (and some women) use condescending terminology like “dear” it has the tendency to really piss off a lot women who have worked...
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