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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 

    Mark Bennett, I work for 17 different attorneys throughoutThe United States, and I have a simple propositionthat will benefit your website and ours. One of my attorney clients would like toPlace a link from his website to your website,Which will elevate you in Google’s eyes and helpYou get higher up in Google results. In return, we ask for a link from your website toA different attorney client

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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.

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     September 21, 2012 in 

    On 18 September the aiding suicide case that Dionne Press neglected and that I offered to work on for free (which caused Press to try to get the DA's Office to file charges or a grievance against me) was no-billed by the grand jury of the 351st District Court. So I was right in predicting that result (to be honest, the outcome was a no-brainer, which is why Press should have

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     September 19, 2012 in 

    When she filled out a form on a website looking for a lawyer to defend her in a DWI case, do you think it occurred to Ms. Dilworth that the boneheads she was sending her information to would be forwarding it to a bunch of strangers, none of whom were bound by attorney-client privilege?  I kid. Of course it didn't occur to her (here's the sort of

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     September 17, 2012 in 

    Donald Collins, now twenty-seven,  is accused of burning Robbie Middleton when Collins was thirteen and Middleton was eight. Middleton died last year of a cancer that "only comes from enduring multiple, painful skin grafts for serious burns." Montgomery County, Texas is considering charging Collins as an adult, but in 1998 a juvenile had to be at least fourteen years old to be certified as an adult. It

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     September 9, 2012 in 

    Jordan Rushie asks (rhetorically), Should I run my law firm on Apple? (a stupid post Greenfield and Tannebaum will laugh at), and compares this question to another: It’s like asking if you prefer to eat eggs for breakfast or cereal. It’s a preference. It won’t win the trial or make you lots of money anymore than your Fruit Loops will. Rushie overstates the importance of the question

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     September 5, 2012 in 

    Just the facts: On the 29th of August I got in the mail the State's Motion to Disclose Experts in a case set for trial next Tuesday. The same day the District Clerk's office notified me that the judge had granted the State's motion. Here's a portion of Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.05: A lawyer shall not…except as otherwise permitted by law and not prohibited by

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     September 4, 2012 in 

    From a disciplinary petition filed today by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline against a criminal-defense lawyer (no, not me): 1. In or around November 2009, [Client] hired Respondent for representation in a federal criminal matter. [Client] paid Respondent $250,000.00 for the representation. In or around February 2010, [Client] terminated the representation and requested an accounting of the funds and a refund of any unused portion of the

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