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Repair Credit
10
Jan
Repair Credit – Can you Trust Credit Repair Companies? Read this before you hire one. Or, do it yourself credit repair with inexpensive templates.
Improve your credit score and avoid bankruptcy.
Credit Card Interest Calculator
10
Jan
Credit card interest calculator – use this handy gadget to give you an idea what things
are REALLY costing you AND how it could cost you less – Do Your own credit repair
Stop Collection Calls Letter
30
Aug
Stop collection calls letter free dowloadable template to write a letter to stop collectors
from harrassing you, stop debt collection and financial resources for credit repair free legal forms.
Best Credit Card After Bankruptcy
19
Aug
Best credit card after bankruptcy? Here’s essential information and what You need to know.
How can you re-establish credit after filing bankruptcy? Credit repair online can it be done? Differences, common mistakes,
and legal self help for bad credit
Budget Control Act Eliminates Subsidized Interest Loans for Graduate Students
04
Aug
The CBO estimates that the Budget Control Act of 2011 will save approximately $26.3 billion over 2012-2021 by eliminating the federal government’s subsidized graduate student loan program: Student Loans. As required under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, most…
Credit Repair How Does It Work?
29
Jul
Credit repair – the law is on YOUR side! When an attorney challenges strikes
against your credit, the credit bureaus often wipe them off rather than fight. Here’s why.
Future of Legal Education
21
Apr
Last week I was privileged to attend a Conference on the Future of Education, sponsored by New York Law School and Harvard Law School. This conference was the third in a series on this subject. The purpose of this conference is to initiate a conversation among and between law schools on how to make legal education better, cheaper, and faster, as Dean of New York Law School, Richard Matasar frames the issue. Personally, I think that Matasar’s presentation on the problems and prospects for legal education was the best that I have ever heard.
The format for the conference was a series of presentations of very inventive proposals presented by teams of legal educators and other legal specialists, mostly academics, 12 teams in all.
As participants, we each had $1,000,000 to spend as if we were venture capitalist’s listening to start-up pitches.
The team that I was part of actually won the competition, by receiving the most "venture capital" dollars. Credit goes to Ron Staudt from Chicago-Kent Law School and Marc Lauritsen from Capstone Practice who did the heavy lifting on developing the proposal. The proposed project called for law students in clinical programs to be engaged in the development of "Apps for Justice" that could be used by legal service programs to provide tools for access to justice. The title of the project is "Learning Law by Creating Software" Click here for a copy of the proposal.
Marc and Ron receiving their $10,700,000 check.
David Johnson from New York Law School won second place for a proposal to create "legal apps" that are games that would be used to teach and learn. The "State of Play" Academy.
Click here for a link to many of the other proposals.
Copy, Credit, Meals
This is addressed to my professional actor friends, full members of the Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA, and Equity.
It is to say that I am tired of being invited by student directors to act in their videos, or films, for their benefit and for nothing. This is a huge step backward to the very beginnings of these esteemed organizations, back to the twenties and thirties. Student actors, go ahead. Professional actors, STOP!
Yes, we are entering a new era in the film making process. Yes, the old rules are a-changing. But no, what remains unchanged is the cold hard fact that we need to earn a fair amount of money to survive. SAG and AFTRA and AEA were conceived to ensure that this happens. But what has taken its place?
I am told that I may perform in an AEA condoned "Equity Waiver" theatrical production. That means that I have the opportunity to "practice my craft" for not much more than car fare.
I am told that I may perform in a SAG or AFTRA condoned "student production" to "practice my craft" for a copy of the result "for my reel". My reel has become an essential adjunct in the job-hunting process. Job hunting has become the premier industry in today’s Hollywood (and New York). Hundreds of websites have come into being, offering job hunting services for a price. And so, the poor actor’s pockets, bare due to the near impossibility of getting paid these days, is made even more bare by the new necessity to subscribe to these websites.
The dignity of the professional actor is severely threatened. The new image is that of a young actor, with pleading in his eyes, one hand out, and the other behind his back, to protect it, I guess. While the producer/director wields his traditional authoritarial stick over the actor, ensuring the continuance of a feudal system tolerated since the dark ages. And the middle men, the managers, the agents, the lawyers, and some teachers and casting directors, earn their living in dependence upon the actors lack of confidence, "teaching" said actors "new tricks".
Posted in ACTORS' & DIRECTORS' CORNER, COMMENTARY