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  • Warfare vs. ‘lawfare’

    05/26/2017 8:50:31 AM PDT · by Retain Mike · 7 replies
    World Magazine ^ | May 27, 2017 | Lynn Vincent
    In today’s wars, American troops face not one enemy, but three: jihadists, infiltrators, and lawyers. Today, our soldiers and Marines are held not just to the laws of warfare, but to unprecedented standards of criminal law, even though they are operating in a combat environment,” said John Maher, a former Army attorney and current reserve lieutenant colonel who specializes in the defense of military accused. Incidents that in the past would have been viewed as collateral damage in the ‘fog of war’ are now being prosecuted as war crimes. Texas defense attorney Colby Vokey, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, considers...
  • Erdogan’s German lawyer resigns from Bohmermann case due to Nazi comparisons

    05/04/2017 11:03:05 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 2 replies
    KOM News ^ | 4 May 2017 16:58 CEST | none stated
    Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's German lawyer Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger talking to journalists. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s German lawyer Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger has resigned from representing Erdogan in a lawsuit against comedian Jan Bohmermann, who read a poem smearing him on German TV last year.“I don’t want to comment on the reasons behind my decision,” von Sprenger said, but according to the German news outlet Meedia, von Sprenger added that he felt personally attacked by Erdogan’s Nazi comparisons.“Due to his political activities, my father was in prison under National Socialism. He was threatened with deportation to concentration camps,” the German lawyer...
  • Do you really need a lawyer to sell a business?

    03/27/2017 4:13:53 PM PDT · by WhoisAlanGreenspan? · 37 replies
    Selling my business and the building it has always occupied for many years. This is a retail store. Modestly successful, which is why I'm leaving. I need a little less modesty. The party who wants to buy it has many years of experience in this particular type of retail business and there's little reason to doubt sincerity or ability to pay what is being asked. There's a bunch of websites where you can buy a "Purchase Business Agreement" that matches or exceeds the detail level of older agreements I have access to for comparison. Pretty simple stuff when you have...
  • California bar exam’s passing score should be lowered, critics say

    03/14/2017 7:38:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 59 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 14, 2017 | Dominic Fracassa
    The State Bar of California has agreed to launch a comprehensive assessment of whether the minimum score needed to pass its bar examination should be lowered to allow more prospective attorneys to pass. In recent weeks, a growing chorus of voices — from state legislators to law school deans to court officials — have registered urgent concerns that the lowest score needed to pass the exam, commonly referred to as the “cut score,” is too high, flunking would-be attorneys who would qualify to practice law nearly everywhere else in the country. That sense of urgency has increased since November, after...
  • Nigerian welfare scam

    03/13/2017 10:34:00 AM PDT · by KeyLargo · 11 replies
    This Ain't Hell ^ | March 13, 2017 | John Lilyea
    Nigerian welfare scam Jonn Lilyea | March 13, 2017 | 25 Comments Bobo sends a link to the story of an Arlington, Virginia woman, Helen Agbapuruonwu, who has been collecting welfare benefits for the last six years, while her husband, Fidelis Agbapuruonwu, was earning a seven figure income as a lawyer with the DC firm of Mayer Brown. She’s been arrested while folks believe that Fidelis, a Nigerian immigrant, has “fled the country and is somewhere in Africa.” Police say a six-month investigation into Helen Agbapuruonwu, 41, found that the mother of four had collected benefits like food stamps and...
  • THE DEATH OF AN UNREPENTANT TERRORIST-LAWYER

    03/09/2017 8:43:25 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 12 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/09/17 | Matthew Vadum
    Convicted of providing material support for terrorism, Lynne Stewart was released early so she could die peacefully at home. After a lifetime of radical anti-American activism and passionate legal advocacy for foreign and domestic terrorists, cop-killers, and gangsters, convicted terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart died at her home in Brooklyn – instead of in prison where she was supposed to be. Her son said Stewart, 77, expired Tuesday from complications related to cancer and a series of strokes. Mourners who run the website of “Democracy Now!” ran a headline describing her as the “People’s Lawyer & [Former] Political Prisoner.” The article...
  • Lynne Stewart, lawyer who represented blind sheik, Black Panthers, dead at 77

    03/08/2017 11:04:46 AM PST · by DFG · 52 replies
    AP via Fox News ^ | 03/08/2017 | AP
    An outspoken New York civil rights lawyer who represented clients ranging from small-time criminals to radicals and was released early from prison three years ago because she was expected to die of cancer has died. Lynne Feltham Stewart was 77. Her husband, Ralph Poynter, says Stewart died Tuesday in the Brooklyn home where she lived after receiving a "compassionate release" from prison in January 2014. Stewart was disbarred after she was convicted of helping a terrorist client communicate with followers.
  • Case Dismissed , any hope for reimbursement on costs to fight?

    02/13/2017 8:24:49 AM PST · by Neidermeyer · 21 replies
    neidermeyer | 02/13/2017 | neidermeyer
    I'm looking for anyone with experience in this area ,, especially if you are a lawyer in Florida. I just had a dogbite case against me dismissed after a fight that went on for over 4 years. The dog did bite but in defense of me , the case truly had no merit and the plaintiff made ridiculous claims such as "permanent disability" that had no basis in fact and were disproved with video exhibits (and a total lack of medical documentation). I had about 500 hours of surveillance in this fight and about $1000 in miscellaneous out of pocket...
  • Body found burned in River North identified as veteran real estate attorney

    01/19/2017 4:28:56 PM PST · by Brad from Tennessee · 48 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | January 19, 2017 | By Rosemary Regina Sobol
    A badly burned body found on the floor of a River North parking garage early Tuesday has been identified as a 60-year-old real estate attorney, officials said. Louis S. Cohen, 60, was of the 200 block of Ivy Lane in Highland Park, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Wednesday was pending and did not determine a cause and manner for Cohen’s death, the office said. Just before 6 a.m. Tuesday, police and fire crews responded to a fire in the 11th floor of a parking garage in the 300 block of North LaSalle Drive and found...
  • Jesse Watters Confronts Man Who Harassed Ivanka Trump on AirplaneJesse Watters Confronts Ivana Trump

    01/06/2017 11:15:28 AM PST · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 33 replies
    Jesse Watters Confronts Ivanka Trump Heckler
  • Some Lawyer Is Posting Hilarious "Tips" On Facebook

    01/03/2017 9:06:30 AM PST · by virgil283 · 24 replies
    college humor ^ | Ross Snow
    "Drinking ice water just before your drug test does not explain why your urine sample is cold"...The life of a lawyer is an insane one. Or at least that's the case for this West Virginian lawyer who has been posting hilarious advice drawn from his actual life experience on Facebook for years now. Check out some of his posts...for all future "legal advice."
  • 'Strong Arm' Dallas lawyer Brian Loncar dies a week after teenage daughter's suicide

    12/04/2016 2:19:44 PM PST · by DFG · 36 replies
    Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/04/2016 | Caleb Downs Julieta Chiquillo
    Dallas lawyer Brian Loncar died Sunday, two days after the funeral for his 16-year-old daughter, who killed herself on Nov. 26. How the 56-year-old died and where he was found remain a mystery, but investigators called to his downtown office examined a Rolls Royce Wraith parked outside.
  • [VANITY] Correcting the record on FR and elsewhere tonight regarding Kathy Shelton

    10/09/2016 8:09:35 PM PDT · by Anti-Hillary · 37 replies
    10/09/16 | self
    I am about to lose my mind here tonight from about the innacqurate references to Kathy Shelton as being one of 4 women who was abused by Bill. She was NEVER abused by Bill. All of Kathy's abuse with regards to the Clintons came solely from Hillary. This is NOT nit picky stuff either. This woman was raped at 12 and was in a coma for 5 days and Hillary defended her attacker even though she admittedly knew he was guilty. But it gets worse from there. She besmirched a 12 year old rape victim, suppressed evidence and then years...
  • Texas appeals court halts execution of man who did not kill anyone

    08/19/2016 8:06:12 PM PDT · by CorporateStepsister · 24 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 19, 2016 | Jon Herskovitz
    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted an execution planned for next week of a man convicted as an accomplice to a murder he did not commit in a case that raised questions about how the state applies the death penalty. Jeffery Wood, 43, was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24 by lethal injection. He was convicted of taking part in a 1996 convenience store robbery during which clerk Kriss Keeran was fatally shot. In its decision, the appeals court asked a lower court to review his sentence and claims from Wood's lawyer that it was obtained...
  • Britain’s top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange (train accident suicide-truncated)

    08/19/2016 10:29:05 AM PDT · by MarchonDC09122009 · 43 replies
    The Sun ^ | 04/21/16 | Neil Syson
    Britain’s top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange and worked alongside George Clooney’s wife Amal dies in apparent suicide – The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1138414/britains-top-human-rights-lawyer-who-represented-julian-assange-and-worked-alongside-george-clooneys-wife-amal-dies-in-apparent-suicide/ Britain’s top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange and worked alongside George Clooney’s wife Amal dies in apparent suicide... EXCLUSIVE By NEIL SYSON 21st April 2016, 11:05 am
  • Hillary and a 12 year old rape victim.

    08/18/2016 12:15:22 PM PDT · by safetysign · 11 replies
    Youtube ^ | unknown | staff
    Video has it all. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdNHf1g4ivA
  • Massachusetts candidate named Alabama school superintendent

    08/13/2016 11:10:53 AM PDT · by lyby · 25 replies
    The Opelika Auburn News ^ | August 11, 2016 | AP
    State school board members are looking to an outsider to lead Alabama public schools, naming the former Massachusetts education secretary as the next school superintendent over candidates who have worked extensively in state classrooms.
  • Witness in Email Probe Seen Leaving Clinton’s House On Day She Met With FBI

    07/02/2016 8:50:57 PM PDT · by bobsunshine · 54 replies
    Breitbart via Western Journalism ^ | July 2, 2016 | by MICHELLE MOONS, Breitbart Jack Davis, Western Journalism
    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff during the time Clinton was Secretary of State was spotted leaving Clinton’s residence on the same day Clinton was interviewed by the FBI about her email scandal. Cheryl Mills, who has been called as a witness in the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server, was seen on video leaving Clinton’s home at about 10 a.m. No explanation was given for why a witness in the investigation would be meeting with Clinton. Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton held a private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch...
  • Founder of firm suing Trump U a felon

    06/03/2016 2:11:25 PM PDT · by detective · 9 replies
    WND ^ | 06/02/2016 | Jerome R. Corsi
    The law firm suing Trump University was founded by a wealthy San Diego lawyer with close ties to the Clintons who served a two-year sentence in federal prison for his role in a kickback scheme to mobilize plaintiffs for class-action lawsuits. William Lerach, best known for winning more than $7 billion in legal settlements of a class action suit he brought against Enron, was found guilty in 2007 of a kickback scheme in which he his firm used intermediaries to pay clients with large stock portfolios a percentage of the law firm’s $11.3 million profits for agreeing to be plaintiffs...
  • Confessed time-traveller pretty sure he'll win U.S. presidency

    04/26/2016 2:31:04 PM PDT · by rickmichaels · 105 replies
    Toronto Sun ^ | April 26, 2016 | Postmedia Network
    If Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton don't resonate with American voters, they always have Andrew Basiago -- a presidential candidate who is pretty sure he's going to become "either president or vice-president" between 2016 and 2028, according to information he's gathered time travelling. Cheekily calling his campaign "a time for truth," Basiago, 54, brags on his site that he "served bravely in the two secret U.S. defence projects in which time travel on Earth and voyages to Mars were first undertaken." Basiago -- who has made similar claims in the past -- also said he's helped several former presidents make...