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17 Oct 2014, 8:21 pm
First, if the defense lawyer is actually incompetent (which is extremely rare in federal court), the client -- almost always a layman -- will not know this or have a way of finding out. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 8:48 am
For instance, it is a safety risk for a buyer to own a house where the electrical work may have been done poorly by a layman, rather than by a licensed electrician. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 3:00 am
” In layman terms that means, is there something legitimate that the former employer actually needs to protect by restricting the post-termination employment opportunities of its former employees? [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 7:22 am
” And indeed, running down the bio of the attorney of record, I see an accomplished generalist / litigator who is not a trademark lawyer — but who still exercised poor enough judgment not only to handle this himself with little more insight into the process than a well-focused layman, but with the full knowledge that he would subject himself to this level of scrutiny if anything went wrong. [read post]
28 Sep 2014, 11:27 pm
That is, the officer’s stop was reasonable in the layman’s sense that a reasonable officer would have made it. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 12:08 pm
In layman's terms, both the motorist and the pedestrian are at fault here. [read post]
20 Sep 2014, 9:31 am
Yet it has been the case for an equally long time that very few people actually use encryption to protect their vital secrets – not journalists, not criminals, and most assuredly not the (perhaps mythical) “average layman user. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 1:05 am
The excerpts are grouped into nine parts: The Law Elevated; Lawless Law; The Law and Liberty; Law Made Low; The Law Laborious (of course you will find Scott Turow’s One L in this section, but you will also find a piece from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland); The Lawyer As Lout; The Law and the Loophole; Layman’s Law (e.g., A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr); and The Law and Longing. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 9:44 pm
In the scheme of things, a fine or a single building code violation leveled against a landlord may not seem to be mean much to the layman, and there are plenty of responsible property owners who will properly attend to remediating the cause of the fine or violation. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 6:20 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
30 Aug 2014, 4:17 pm
As for me, a simple layman, I am profoundly grateful to my Indian friends for having initiated me into the tremendous Mystery of the mushroom. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 8:27 am
” A primary difference, he says, is “in layman terms, you can admit hearsay” in the military proceedings. . . . [read post]
24 Aug 2014, 11:41 am
Because it was not preserved prior to appeal, the majority reviews for plain error (which in layman's terms means "yeah, good luck with that"). [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 8:09 am
” Well, that’s layman’s terms for “escalating commitment. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 6:53 am
Lawyers and the legal profession love their words and their singular interpretations, which can be quite odd from the perspective of the layman, especially when the interpretation seems quite obvious from the very beginning. [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 7:05 am
The obligation is stated in common sense terms that a layman can understand; and 3. [read post]
1 Aug 2014, 10:39 am
In layman's terms, an ACCORD is a fancy way of saying "contract. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 3:04 pm
Layman, Jud’s supervisor, may have unintentionally gotten this frenzy started with his quotes in the Sun Sentinel and elsewhere. [read post]
26 Jul 2014, 8:00 am
Christie Wilcox covers the dispute over credit for the "lionfish in Florida rivers" in a post titledProceeding upriver: a timeline of the dispute over estuarine lionfish .The players in the dispute:Zachary Jud, then a grad student at FIT, who discovered lionfish in rivers of salt content below that of adjacent ocean and published thereon in 2011. [ Jud is the first author of AQUATIC BIOLOGY Vol. 13: 21–26, 2011 titled Recent invasion of a Florida (USA) estuarine systemby lionfish… [read post]
20 Jul 2014, 2:35 pm
Glen Whitman and Jim Dow (Cal State Northridge, economics) will be guest-blogging this coming week about the new book that they co-edited, “Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science” (paragraph breaks added) : Whether preparing us for economic recovery after the zombie apocalypse, analyzing vampire investment strategies, or illuminating the market forces that affect vampire-human romances, “Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal… [read post]
