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Old 10-17-2011, 07:36 PM   #2746
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I'm struggling to think of when it would be appropriate to start a sentence with "[my client] instructed me not to comply with the court's order . . . "
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Old 10-17-2011, 09:43 PM   #2747
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I'm struggling to think of when it would be appropriate to start a sentence with "[my client] instructed me not to comply with the court's order . . . "
If the client waives privilege then there's no problem. And if the lawyer said, you've got to let me tell the court this or I will have to withdraw, then I bet he'd OK it.
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Old 10-21-2011, 10:38 AM   #2748
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My new hero. That's how you deal with the press.
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Old 10-26-2011, 02:10 PM   #2749
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11 judge en banc opinion by the 9th on the Alien Tort Act. 170 pages. Seven (maybe) opinions. Adder, will you tell me what it means?
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Old 11-01-2011, 05:15 PM   #2750
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my favorite rule (you move for discovery motions within 14 days or STFU) has teeth.
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Old 11-22-2011, 05:26 PM   #2751
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Anyone know anyone?
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Old 11-22-2011, 05:51 PM   #2752
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Old 12-01-2011, 12:31 AM   #2753
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Seatbelt charges against Pope Benedict XVI dropped

BERLIN — Pope Benedict XVI can cross an outstanding charge of failing to use a seatbelt from his list of worries.

The southern German city of Freiburg on Wednesday (Nov. 30) threw out charges against the pontiff for riding in his popemobile without a seatbelt during a September visit.

“There will be no fine for the pope,” city spokeswoman Edith Lamersdorf, told the daily Badische Zeitung. “The charges were quashed.”
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Old 12-01-2011, 02:37 AM   #2754
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Seatbelt charges against Pope Benedict XVI dropped
Granularity problem?
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Old 12-01-2011, 06:02 AM   #2755
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In 2002, declassified "Richard Nixon tapes" confirmed remarks made by Graham to President Nixon three decades earlier. Captured on the tapes, Graham agreed with Nixon that Jews control the American media, calling it a "stranglehold" during a 1972 conversation with Nixon.[48] His remarks were characterized as anti-Semitic by Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League[23] and evangelical author Richard Land.[49] When the tapes became public, Graham apologized.[50][51] According to Newsweek magazine, "[T]he shock of the revelation was magnified because of Graham's longtime support of Israel and his refusal to join in calls for conversion of the Jews."[
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Old 12-14-2011, 03:53 PM   #2756
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How not to respond to a judge's threats of sanctions for your previous insult-laden filing.
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Old 02-17-2012, 05:38 PM   #2757
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Sometime a good offense might not be the best defense
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Old 03-14-2012, 05:50 PM   #2758
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School district pays $10K for its counsel to observe and report on 89 hours' worth of the criminal trial of its Superintendent; reporter making $65K drops her hankie in shock and dismay

I must say for a convicted public servant he's got good taste in eyewear.

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Old 04-12-2012, 07:22 PM   #2759
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Career path:
  1. Public interest attorney, 1997-2010.
  2. Marry then state Attorney General, 2003.
  3. Get appointed to state community colleges Board of Governors, 2010.
  4. Get elected to Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2010.
  5. Be absent from 20% of five-member Board of Supervisors meetings, November 2011 to present.
  6. Separate from husband (now state Treasurer); reunite.
  7. Call police from hotel room, claiming former boyfriend (from before your 2003 marriage) has lured you there and assaulted you, February 2012.
  8. Issue standard "I have not been spared from the scourge of addiction that affects so many of us" press release; check into rehab for chemical dependency, February 2012.
  9. Send press bizarre e-mail blaming husband (still Treasurer) for hooking you on drugs. End with "I simply can't bear this any longer. Goodbye to everyone." Cause recipient of e-mail to call police and paramedics to your house. Admit writing "part" of the e-mail, but deny sending it, or including the parts about your husband. Claim ex-boyfriend must have added those parts and sent it, even though the e-mail also calls for the ex-boyfriend to be jailed.
  10. ???
  11. Profit!

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Old 04-19-2012, 02:55 PM   #2760
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Career path:
  1. Public interest attorney, 1997-2010.
  2. Marry then state Attorney General, 2003.
  3. Get appointed to state community colleges Board of Governors, 2010.
  4. Get elected to Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2010.
  5. Be absent from 20% of five-member Board of Supervisors meetings, November 2011 to present.
  6. Separate from husband (now state Treasurer); reunite.
  7. Call police from hotel room, claiming former boyfriend (from before your 2003 marriage) has lured you there and assaulted you, February 2012.
  8. Issue standard "I have not been spared from the scourge of addiction that affects so many of us" press release; check into rehab for chemical dependency, February 2012.
  9. Send press bizarre e-mail blaming husband (still Treasurer) for hooking you on drugs. End with "I simply can't bear this any longer. Goodbye to everyone." Cause recipient of e-mail to call police and paramedics to your house. Admit writing "part" of the e-mail, but deny sending it, or including the parts about your husband. Claim ex-boyfriend must have added those parts and sent it, even though the e-mail also calls for the ex-boyfriend to be jailed.
  10. ???
  11. Profit!

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