This is the second year Legal Blog Watch’s Bruce Carton has identified his 10 “Most-Watched” legal blogs. Carton writes “not all legal blogs are created (and maintained) equal, and some always grow to be favorites of mine during the year.”…
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Thank God the World is Going to End on December 21, 2012: The Coming Deluge of Law Firm Blogs
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Dec
Reporting in Watch Out: A Deluge of Legal Blogs is Approaching, Bob Ambrogi reviews some of the findings of a recently released survey of social media in the legal sector that was conducted by LexisNexis and Vizibility. Bob writes: Better…
Reminder: Dewey B Strategic’s Survey on the Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers Closes Today
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Sep
Here’s the post with link to the survey. Watch for Jean O’Grady’s forthcoming summary and survey findings on Dewey B Strategic. [JH]
Dateline, August 31, 2011, 2:00 PM: Public Safety Alert at Albany Law School Library
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Sep
For details, see ATL’s Watch Out: There’s a Wanker in the Library! Isn’t it awfully early in the academic year for this? All joking aside, ATL’s David Lat reports that security at the Albany Law School Library is a serious…
D.A. Cooley obliged to institute lawsuit to recover money paid to Judges
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Jun
Sterling Norris, an ex-D.A., was perhaps best known for going after the criminal behavior of serial killers, the best-known of them being Ted Bundy.
Now he works for Judicial Watch, the public interest watchdog that looks after the best interests of the common public.
This time he seems to be going after the (alleged) criminal behavior of our judges in the California system of judgeships in Superior Court.
Read his letter and attached brief addressed to D.A Steve Cooley.
But here’s a thought… Will Steve run again? Will he care to undertake this huge responsibility during his endgame?
We got part of the answer. He will not run again, and is endorsing his second-in-command, Chief Deputy District Attorney Jacqueline Lacey, as “the most qualified leader to run the nation’s largest local prosecutorial office.” He says he has “complete faith in Jackie’s skilled leadership and commitment to the office’s mission,” and is hosting a fundraiser for her on June 9 at the City Club.
The part he doesn’t answer is whether she’ll pursue the case against the judges. Also, whether this played any part in his decision not to run again for a fourth term.
Richard Fine, Found Guilty of Moral Turpitude?
Our friend Richard Fine, (ex-Esq.) sat in one of the worst jails, the Men’s Central jail in Los Angeles, alone and ignored for a year and a half. He believed in a cause, the cause of honesty and fair dealing by the exalted arbiters – Judges – who hold sway on the lives and well-being of our citizens.
How is it that this can happen here in California? We are the only state of the union that has a special Court presided over by judges. If the State Bar determines that an attorney’s actions involve probable misconduct, formal charges are filed with the State Bar Court by the bar’s prosecutors (through the office of chief trial counsel). There, it’s considered whether lawyers have misbehaved. The court hears the charges and also has the power to recommend that the California Supreme Court suspend or disbar attorneys found to have committed acts of professional misconduct or convicted of serious crimes. When a finding is made, the decision then goes before the Bar, where they decide whether they agree with it. If you see signs of self-dealing and conflict of interest, you will find it here.
Richard appealed. What were his serious crimes? Read the following, from the introduction to their Opinion and Order:-
And so, by this decision, we can assume that they think that Richard has been immobilized, rendered harmless. I disagree, for what they’ve done is to anger the electorate. They will rise up in protest when enough individuals have been deprived of their freedoms, a number which is growing by the day.
Meanwhile, Richard is now one of us. He intends to file motions as an honorable Pro Per, seeking to immobilize each and every judge guilty of taking funds from Los Angeles County tax-payers, to which they were not entitled. And we can do the same, as he teaches us here.
Don’t forget that Judicial Watch has been doing its thing too. It carries more weight than Richard Fine, and it would be most unlikely that one would see their West Coast lawyer Sterling Norris, Esq., who wrote and filed the paperwork, finding himself removed from the rolls of active lawyers. They filed their original complaint back in April 2006, in the Sturgeon vs. County of Los Angeles case, and while it has been beaten at every turn, it remains to be seen whether they’ll take it to the United States Supreme Court. You can read the history of the twists and turns here.
Watch American democracy in action, because it’s fascinating and very very important. The Supreme Court will most likely not want to dirty its hands and will deny consideration of the issue. As a last chance, it will be left for action from the White House. Obama now has a record of stepping into places usually avoided by his predecessors. He recognizes that America has a stake in preserving the integrity of the Constitution and our Rule of Law and not just in name only. It needs to be demonstrated as a significant arm of his foreign policy, and he does have a safe law degree.
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