Scott "Paladin" Greenfield yesterday took on former prosecutors advertising for criminal defense cases by suggesting that they can do things for the accused that other people can't. There are lots of angles that could be taken on this issue; Scott's is thatThe pitch is intended to capitalize on a basic misperception by thepublic, that the skills one develops as a prosecutor, characterized as"experience in criminal law," translate

Why we don't practice civil law (Brian Tannebaum's other blog, My Law License). At least the judge keeps a sense of humor about the relentless asshattery of lawyers attorneys who are a) fighting over money; and b) billing by the minute; and consequently c) make more money the more they "flyspeck" each other. The first paragraph of the order:Pursuant to the modified scheduling order, the parties in

Lloyd Kelley, The lawyer for the Ibarra brothers, who successfully sued Harris County for civil rights violations earlier this year and, in the process, brought down Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal, is now the defendant. The brothers have hired another lawyer to sue him over more than $200,000 in expenses deducted from their $1.7 million settlement, reports Rick Casey in the Houston Chronicle.The expenses include $20,000

From a 2007 interview with improvisational comedy teacher Keith Johnstone: GM: And you won't be nervous. KJ: No. Why should I be nervous? So I can screw up? If you can't screw up, you have to be nervous. I can't win them all. Usually it goes fine. But the one thing I mustn't do is to try to do better. People are so afraid in public they

Governor Palin's relentless promotion of the idea that literally anybody can run this country got me thinking, but it was Senator McCain's leveling plan to rescue the economy by spending my money bailing out those who weren't savvy enough to avoid buying houses that they couldn't afford (in some ways these Republicans are too liberal for me) that called to mind where we had read this story

Over at Women in Crime Ink, Katherine Scardino (one of Houston's leading criminal-defense lawyers) writes about the reversal of Robert Fratta's death-penalty conviction by Judge Melinda Harmon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. (Via Grits for Breakfast.)Guidry, Prystash, and Fratta were all charged with the murder of Fratta's wife. It was alleged that Guidry was the triggerman, Prystash the go-between and getaway

Harris County D.A. Candidate C.O. "Brad" Bradford will be appearing on HCCLA's Reasonable Doubt television show with Todd Dupont and Tate Williams this evening from 8 to 9 p.m. on Comcast Channel 17 in Houston. Call in with your questions for Brad.

Dallas law firm Rose • Walker is representing software company McAfee in its suit against New York (?) law firm WilmerHale for overbilling McAfee while losing the securities fraud case of its former CFO, Prabhat Goyal. WilmerHale's team of former prosecutors billed McAfee $12 million to lose Goyal's case in federal court in San Francisco. (To their credit, they did try the case rather than rushing Mr.

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The bailout, explained (Sinfest, via Mish's Global Trend Analysis):Don't you feel much better now?