Sarah Palin is acting silly. Where is that smart, sensible (and funny too!) Governor of Alaska who gave a speech last year at the Republican National Convention? I haven't seen her in a while.

The Alliance of Legal Document Assistant Professionals (ALDAP), a non-profit organization established in 2007 to serve the legal document assistant (LDA) and paralegal professions, has announced the appointment of three LDAs to its Board of Directors. Moira Boyle was appointed to the position of Dir ...

Gail Wilcox who is the former Assistant County Administrator and she agreed to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit with her former employer for $180,000. The county claims that defending the county by going to trial would potentially cost more than $1 million. To date, the county has spent $337,00 ...

Gail Wilcox who is the former Assistant County Administrator and she agreed to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit with her former employer for $180,000. The county claims that defending the county by going to trial would potentially cost more than $1 million. To date, the county has spent $337,00 ...

Great candidates for public office are coming out of the woodwork these days. One of them is Brenna Findley, who has opened an exploratory campaign for Attorney General of Iowa. Brenna is a University of Chicago law grad ( ......

The bankruptcy estate consists of not only assets in the possession of the debtor but also their rights to stuff they don’t yet have. So if you will be entitled to a refund for 2009’s taxes and you file before you receive the refund, that right to payment is part of the bankruptcy estate ...

We can't tell an awful lot of the facts of the underlying case from the Second Department decision in Nelson v Roth   2010 NY Slip Op 00658   Decided on January 26, 2010   Appellate Division, Second Department but we do see the ironic clash of two well known Legal ...

On February 1, 2010 the Elkins Family Law Task Force met to review revisions to its draft Recommendations. Gail Hahn, ALDAP's Director of Education is ALDAP's point of contact with regard to the committee's recommendations, which are to be delivered to the California Judicial Council on April 30, 20 ...

You gotta love it. Footnote: During his final illness, the father of a friend of mine had to be evacuated from a hospital in Schenectady, New York to a hospital in Detroit. My friend went with him. The helicopter was...

With news that the President is backing off on cap and tax climate control legislation (HT Third Base Politics), what should a first term, vulnerable Ohio House Democrat running for re-election in a previously held Republican seat do?  Yep, you guessed it.  Sign onto a letter endorsing cap ...