Seven Hundred Billion Dollars and xx/oo cents.I can't understand why it's better for the U.S. taxpayer to buy more than two-thirds of a trillion dollars of bad debt, than to fill in the hole that the banks dug for themselves, with the banks still at the bottom of it. It's clearly above my pay grade, but maybe a reader who didn't drop economics in college can explain

This is a picture from the American Embassy School of New Delhi, India's class of 1987 Senior Skip Day. Facebook is awesome.(Again, the guy on the far right is not me.)

26th Street Bar Association and Bad Court Thingy both wrote about an Illinois lawyer, who's been suspended from the practice of law for 15 months for accepting $534 worth of nude dances as partial payment for $7,000 worth of legal fees in 2001 and 2002.The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission found that agreeing to give a current client credit against her legal bills in exchange for

When new criminal-defense lawyers ask me about joining criminal-defense lawyers' associations, I advise them to join their local criminal-defense lawyers' associations (unless "local" means Austin, Texas) first, and then the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In Texas, at least, the state organization is a distant third.The national association, NACDL, has a new president: Arkansas criminal-defense lawyer and blawger John Wesley Hall (Law of Criminal Defense). John's

On ebay: a wonderful gift for a McCain supporter. Bidding starts at $100.One small catch, though. Proceeds from the auction benefit the Trial Lawyers College, an institution that trains lawyers for people -- plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers, criminal-defense lawyers, and other characters scary to the major corporations and frightened white people that form the Republican party's base.

Dear Mark, To introduce me, I am Advoate Goutam Prasad and writting you on behalf of G. P. Law Solutions. Actually, we are New Delhi based Law Firm, which provides Legal Process Outsourcing Services too. As you know now Legal Process Outsourcing is recognised by ABA too and its a great idea to reduce cost and increase profits without compromise to quality. If you go my personal

It's that time again, when voters in about 20 states get to choose a president for the rest of us. Being in Texas, where I get only a symbolic vote in the presidential election, I am at some leisure to observe the mechanics of the election and consider how they might relate to the art & science etc.There's not a whole lot of difference between the two

[Edit: I guess it's hard to see, but they're carting off the remains of the oak trees that decorated this block of Congress Avenue between 2001 and 4:30 a.m. last Saturday.]

Per the Chronicle's Tropical Weather blog (a good source of information about Hurricane closings and openings, though I wish they would list ZIP codes when they publish a list of businesses that are open -- since ZIP codes are generally geographically near their numerical neighbors, sorting by ZIP is a good way to provide such information in a way that our brains can easily use), the Harris