By: Steve Lash
What a game! Pitchers and catchers report in two weeks! Law blog roundup!
Here are some news items to get the week started.
– It was the best of times; it was the worst of times — for lawyers.
– L.A. Dodgers pitch a defense in case of injured San Francisco Giants fan.
– How do you predict the court will rule on this objection?
– General Motors fought Ford, even as Eli battled Brady.
– Are ceilings in corporate legal offices still made of glass?
By: Steve Lash
Welcome, again, to Monday and the law blog roundup. Here are a few lawyerly news items to get your week started.
– New York lawyer keeps low profile in high-profile cases.
– If this Texan wins, can federal tort-reform legislation be far behind?
– Los Angeles criminal defense attorney takes her own life.
– Kansas City, Kan., lawyer might show college basketball administrators a different kind of court.
– Generation J.D. blogger John Cord discusses an officer who flipped out over a Burger King order gone awry.
By: Steve Lash
We might not have gotten the Super Bowl matchup we wanted, but it is what it is.
On a perhaps less serious note, here are some news items to help fill your Monday.
– The lead detective in last century’s “trial of the century” has died.
– Massachusetts lawyers seek $5 million boost in legal aid for indigent litigants.
– Trial begins over police tactic familiar to rodeo fans.
– The Mets need pitching — and lawyers.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the weekly law blog roundup on a day when we honor Martin Luther King Jr.
o Judge lets civil rights lawsuit against New York Police Department proceed.
o ACLU sues Indianapolis officials for allegedly preventing homeless people from selling a newspaper.
o Voter-identification law draws protest in South Carolina.
o Former New Mexico state worker says she was fired for alleging discrimination against Latino drivers.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to the final law blog roundup of 2011, featuring — as always — a compilation of items geared toward lawyers and judges but which others might also find interesting.
o Crying criminals common, counselors confirm.
o Who needs lawyers?
o Vermont’s DNA collection law sparks debate.
o Law firm lobbyists form subsidiaries.
o Packer plea possible, paper posts.
By: Steve Lash
Welcome to this week’s law blog roundup, that weekly compilation of on-line news from around the nation that only lawyers and judges can truly appreciate.
- Immigration lawyers in New York get low marks
- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers seek a mulligan
- Criminal lawyer tries the twin defense in Kansas City
- Accused Philadelphians fare better with public defenders
- Phoenix-area sheriff’s office must pay newspaper’s legal fees
By: Steve Lash
Happy Halloween! Here’s a few legal items to chew on until the trick or treatees arrive.
- Former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar may have revealed too much.
- Federal prosecutors oppose delay in the “Fatal Vision” case.
- Will the victim be blamed in Dodgertown?
- Billionaires, with barristers, battle in Britain.
By: Steve Lash
Former U.S. Rep. Frank M. Kratovil Jr. and David W. “Chip” Gregory, who battled each other in a race for Queen Anne’s County state’s attorney in 2002, are once again competing for the same job.
Gregory and Kratovil, who won that election fight, have both applied for a judgeship in Queen Anne’s County District Court. They and three other candidates will be interviewed by a 13-member trial court judicial nominating commission. The panel will winnow the list of candidates and submit its nominees to Gov. Martin O’Malley on Dec. 6.
O’Malley, if he keeps to his past practice, will appoint the next judge from that list.
Gregory, a Democrat, was the four-term incumbent Democratic state’s attorney when Kratovil defeated him in the party’s primary in 2002.
Gregory went into private practice with Downes & Gregory in Centreville.
Kratovil won the general election and served six years as state’s attorney. He left the post for Capitol Hill after defeating Republican Andy Harris in 2008 for an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
But Harris gained a measure of revenge last November by beating Kratovil in his re-election bid to represent Maryland’s 1st Congressional District. Since leaving Congress in January, Kratovil has served as assistant deputy state’s attorney in Prince George’s County.
In addition to Kratovil and Gregory, the candidates for the district court judgeship are Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney Lance G. Richardson and lawyers Patrick J. Palmer and Sandra Lynn Reno.
By: Steve Lash
The seven judges on Maryland’s top court were ready to hear Timothy S. Gordon explain to them why he should not be disbarred for misuse of escrow funds.
But in an unusual move, Gordon announced to the Court of Appeals that “I wish at this time to consent to the relief sought [by Bar Counsel] and that I be disbarred.”
Attorneys who consent to having their law licenses pulled generally do so much earlier in the Attorney Grievance Commission’s disciplinary process, thus saving them the burden of paying Bar Counsel’s court and investigative costs.
The Court of Appeals, in its Monday order disbarring Gordon, also ordered him to pay Bar Counsel’s costs of $1,200.
“I was as surprised as anybody else,” Court of Appeals Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. said Tuesday of Gordon’s Sept. 7 announcement in open court. “This was unusual in that the denouement did not occur until the day of oral argument.”
Gordon, who was a Hagerstown solo practitioner, could not be reached for comment.
By: Steve Lash
Congratulations on surviving the wind and rain over the weekend. I hope these items add a little extra sunshine to your Monday.
- Reality TV comes to Mexico, to the presumed dismay of criminal defense attorneys.
- This case will not make momma happy.
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