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The Good That Prisoner Rights Lawyers Do by On April 23, 2022, UCLA law professor Sharon Dolovich delivered the keynote address at a Prisoner Rights and Prison Conditions symposium. She cited the challenges faced by attorneys who pursue prisoners’ rights litigation—an area of law “stacked a mile high against plaintiffs”—including ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
California Attorney Specializes in Representing Prisoners Victimized by Fraud by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Peter Borenstein graduated from law school in 2014 with a burning passion for criminal justice reform ignited by his 20-year pen-pal relationship with a federal prisoner who had been a client of his father’s. He ...
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
New Jersey County Pays $95,000 to Female Lawyer “Wanded” Between Legs at Jail by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Bonita Bourke is a 56-year-old attorney and former president of the Warren County, New Jersey Bar Association. She regularly visits clients at the Sussex County jail, and as with all visitors ...
Article • April 23, 2018
Reason for Missing Deadline Did Not Reach Level of Excusable Neglect by David Reutter by David Reutter The First Circuit Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff’s failure to oppose the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a timely fashion could not be considered excusable neglect. Patrick Skrabec was arrested ...
State Counsel for Offenders Report Review of the Operations of State Counsel for Offenders Report by the State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee1 Approved for Publication December 8, 2017 Disclaimer: The following report and the underlying research were completed by members of the ...
Brief • November 1, 2017
West Virginia v. Hutton, WV, Appeal, Ineffective Counsel, 2017 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA September 2017 Term FILED November 1, 2017 _____________ released at 3:00 p.m. EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA No. 16-1069 _____________ STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, Respondent V. ...
Publication • June 8, 2017
Filed under: Work, Attorney, Money/Property
Oregon Law Practice Management - Crowdfunding Your Law Practice, 2016 9/4/2016 Crowdfunding Your Law Practice | Oregon Law Practice Management Oregon Law Practice Management Practice Management Tip for Oregon Lawer Crowdfunding Your Law Practice Posted on 01/12/2015 Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture  raising monetar ...
Brief • 2017
Filed under: Attorney
Allen v. Edwards, LA, Certifying Class Status, 2017 JOSEPH ALLEN, STEVEN AYRES, ASHLEY HURLBURT, RORY KEVIN GATES, JAMES HOWARD, DEMARCUS MORROW, RODNEY WALLER, KEITH ARCEMENT, FREDERICK BELL, GENARO CRUZ GOMEZ, SAM YBARRA, MICHAEL CARTER, AND JAMES PARK, ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES AND ALL OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED, DOCKET NO. 655079 HONORABLE ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Attorneys with Disciplinary Records Part of Flaw in Pennsylvania’s Death Penalty System by David Reutter In February 2015, just a month into his term as Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, calling it “error prone, expensive and anything but infallible.” [See: PLN, Feb. ...
Publication • December 30, 2016
Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (62915), New York State Bar Association, 2015 ETHICS OPINION 1062 New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (6/29/15) Topic: Financing a law practice; crowdfunding websites. Digest: A law firm may engage in certain types of crowdfunding but not others. Any ...
Prominent Texas Capital Defense Attorney Suspended for a Year by David Dow has near-legendary status among death penalty attorneys in Texas. He works pro bono for clients whose lives literally depend on him; he takes their cases after they arrive on death row, often seeking to right the wrongs committed ...
Publication • May 26, 2016
Filed under: Attorney, Pardons/Clemency
Pardon Attorney Leff Letter of Resignation, Office of the Pardon Attorney, January 31, 2016 A Y u.s. Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney D Washingtoll, D.G. 20530 U SA The Honorable Sally Quillian Yates Deputy Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Wash ington, D.C. ...
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Attorney, First Amendment
Cruz et al v. English Nanny and Governess School et al, OH, Amicus Brief - ACLU OH, extrajudicial attorney speech sanctions, 2016 NAILAH K. BYRD CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUERK OF COURTS 1200 Ontario Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Court of Appeals MOTION Electronically Filed: May 13, 2016 17:00 By: RAYMOND VASVARI 0055538 ...
Article • March 31, 2016
Holder Orders U.S. Attorneys Not to Use Appeal Waivers by Derek Gilna Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder followed up his announcement restricting the usage of 851’s to coerce plea bargains with an announcement directing, not suggesting, that all U.S. Attorneys refrain from asking for appeal and habeas waivers in ...
Publication • February 15, 2016
A Primer on the Law of Attorneys Fees, Urban Lawyer (Brown), 2005 663 A Primer on the Law of Attorney’s Fees Under § 1988 Mark R. Brown* MODERN CIVIL LITIGATION IN AMERICA generally proceeds under the assumption that plaintiffs and defendants must choose and pay their own lawyers. This “American ...
Publication • February 12, 2016
Representing Police Office & Municipalities - A Conflict of Interest for Municipal Attorneys, Tell, 1997 65 Fordham L. Rev. 2825 Fordham Law Review May, 1997 Note *2825 REPRESENTING POLICE OFFICERS AND MUNICIPALITIES: A CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR A MUNICIPAL ATTORNEY IN A § 1983 POLICE MISCONDUCT SUIT Nicole G. Tell ...
Article • October 19, 2015
CDCR Violates State Law by Outsourcing Prisoner Lawsuits to Private Attorneys by Joe Watson CDCR Violates State Law by Outsourcing Prisoner Lawsuits to Private Attorneys by Joe Watson The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has again lost a fight with the State Attorneys' Union over outsourcing prison litigation ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Best Criminal Defense Pleading Ever! by Alex Friedmann PLN primarily reports on civil litigation involving prisons and jails rather than criminal cases. There are other resources that address criminal law; for example, Punch & Jurists (www.fedcrimlaw.com), which covers issues related to federal criminal cases. However, when we ran across a ...
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
New York Jail Profits from TV Ads by Joe Watson How does a small business like Chico’s Bail Bonds increase its odds of reaching its target demographic? By advertising to people who have just been arrested and jailed, of course. While being booked and photographed within hours of their arrest, ...
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Safety Concerns of a Prisoner Rights Lawyer by by Jane Kahn As part of the small talk that happens during holiday gatherings and at other events during the year, people ask me what I do. My work involves representing California prisoners with severe mental illness. I am frequently asked whether ...
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