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October 16, 2012 in
Minnesota debt-collection mill Gurstel Chargo announces that it has hired two new associate attorneys in Scottsdale, Katherine Merolo and Benjamin S. Kulpers. I wonder if Merolo and Kulpers know what they're in for: I am a recent (now past) employee of this law firm. FDCPA violations happen on a regular basis, and I just wish that more people knew their rights, because suit could be legitimately brought daily
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October 14, 2012 in
{Update 9 August 2013: The Colliers appear to have dismissed their case against Gurstel Chargo. The Stipulation to Dismiss says in part: 2. Gurstel Chargo performed no action that was in violation of the FDCPA; 3. The telephone call referred to inthe Complaint and the central subject of this lawsuit was not made by Gurstel Chargo, any employee or affiliate of Gurstel Chargo, or anyone acting on
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October 14, 2012 in
Last December a guy named Sam who works for a startup t-shirt company called ooshirts emailed to offer me three free t-shirts of my own design. I put together a design with a molotov cocktail on the front and "No sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism" on the back, along with the URL of this blog. They took about a week to come in, and
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October 10, 2012 in
Houston DWI lawyer Paul B. Kennedy (The Defense Rests) complains about Carpet bagging [visiting] judges: In the meantime, those who were tossed out of office by the public continue to preside over trials because their buddies and former colleagues keep using them as visiting judges. It's a process that needs to stop. While it is true that the drafters of Texas's constitution wanted judges to be subject
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October 8, 2012 in
"Lee" wrote to offer me a smoking deal: DWITicket.com is a premium domain available for you to attract online customers. This URL defines an entire, high revenue, industry and you can own it - whether to enhance your own practice or build a directory of DWI attorneys. DWITicket.com is available for just $98,777 Iif you're the sort of lawyer who would think for even a moment of
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October 5, 2012 in
This is my talk on jury selection—the law, the science, and the practice—from the State Bar of Texas Advanced Criminal Law Course in San Antonio in July 2012. [jwplayer mediaid="4545"] My accompanying paper on Texas's law of jury selection is here. My paper on simple rules for better jury selection is here.
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September 30, 2012 in
Blake Knight at Legal Brand Marketing is still at it: sending strangers emails revealing the secrets of people who think they're contacting a lawyer: State = TX County = TARRANT City = Date Arrested = First Name = Brendan Comments = I was in a drunk driving incident in which I was travelling the wrong way on a one way street and had a collision with another
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September 28, 2012 in
Caught on video (via Lisa Simeone, TSA News): TSA goons training travelers to be unquestioningly compliant.
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September 28, 2012 in
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September 25, 2012 in
"It is not true that if you devote most of your attention to marketing, [lawyering and administration] will suffer. It will simply mean that you need to hire or outsource." This little gem of wisdom comes from a comment on this post at Lawyerist.com. The comment's author is Mark Merenda, who is—you guessed it—in the business of selling marketing to lawyers. Is Merenda's position—that "Marketing is job one.