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In the game of worst ways to get disbarred, one former Florida lawyer has scored almost as high as the notorious Prenda Law ‘porn-stortion’ scheming lawyers. Jose Manual Camacho pleaded guilty to 14 felony charges related to forging the signatures of judges for cases he was working on. He probably would have gotten away with it too, if only he had minded judge Garcia-Wood’s vacation schedule. As a result of his guilty plea, Camacho was sentenced to 364 days in jail, as well as 10 years of probation....

Lindsay Lohan is kind of like Voldemort He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named: She’s been known to wreak havoc, and those who publicly utter her name tend to regret it. Three years ago, LiLo sued E-Trade, demanding $100 million for pain and suffering after the DIY-stock brokerage referred to a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby named Lindsay in a Super Bowl ad, the New York Post reports. In 2011, Lohan sued rapper Pitbull for name-dropping her in “Give Me Everything....

Stewart Hauptman and Helen Cherry converted their 1985 Pace Arrow motor home into a rolling medical marijuana dispensary, which has become the target of police. The couple travels in their Pace Arrow motor home around Southern California and Las Vegas serving about 700 members of their marijuana collective, which they say is legal under state law, the Press Enterprise reports. In addition, authorities say it’s a for-profit operation. As previously discussed, California municipalities are permitted to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries....

While there may be some debate as to what’s motivating it, there’s been a somewhat surprising increase in law school applicants for the 2018-19 school year. The increase was not unsubstantial either, with the Law School Admissions Council touting a whopping 11 percent increase over last year. The rise in applicants is posited to be the result of a few different factors, including the so-called “Trump bump.” Basically, people want to become lawyers because of the economic growth we’re currently seeing and because of the highly political news cycle motivating individuals to pursue careers to effect social change....

White House No-Fly Zone Enforced by Commander-in-Chief Himself A common house fly found itself in the rare air of the White House this week, but paid the ultimate price for lingering too long in the presence of the President. And the incident unleashed PETA’s hair-trigger (actually made entirely of faux-fur) outrage, as the group tried to ensure that the next fly receives a Presidential pardon. When Obama sat down for an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood on Wednesday, the normally unflappable Commander-in-Chief became distracted by a fly buzzing around his head....

Conviction for maintaining a place for selling, giving away or using a controlled substance is reversed and remanded where: 1) trial court erred by giving the jury an instruction that permitted it to convict defendant for maintaining a place for his own personal drug use, as Health & Saf. Code section 11366 is not violated by a defendant’s personal use of a controlled substance in his or her own home, even if the defendant used drugs continuously or repeatedly; and 2) section 11366 is violated only if the defendant maintains a place for the continuous or repeated use of drugs by others....

In proceedings arising from a second-degree murder conviction pursuant to a no contest plea, denial of defendant’s request for continuance to retain private counsel and to bring a motion to withdraw his plea is reversed as defendant cannot be found to have waived his presentence right in trial court to challenge the effectiveness of his counsel when the claimed ineffectiveness related to the advice he received at the time he entered the plea containing the purported waiver....

Law schools often come under fire for doing an awful job of preparing law students to pass the bar, and/or become actual practicing lawyers able to pay off their massive student loans. Not failing to stand out from the pack, one UK law school is catching grief over the dress code rubric used to score the professional appearance of students in a “vocational” course teaching students how to handle witness examinations....

Most of the time, I try to write with some empathy, objectivity, or insight. But when I am out of my element, I rely on the experiences of others or I default to attempts at humor. With that said, I confess I have never breastfed – at least not since I was an infant. I have been a law student, however, so let me share what little I learned about lactation accommodations in law school....

While the Golden State Warriors are gearing up for Game 4 of the NBA finals, a San Antonio Spurs season ticket holder is gearing up for litigation. Juan Vasquez has filed a lawsuit on behalf of himself and all Spurs season ticket holders against Zaza Pachulia and the Warriors over Kawhi Leonard’s Game 1 injury. The controversy over this injury inflamed NBA fans, and particularly Spurs fans. Although Leonard publicly stated that he believes Pachulia’s actions were not intentional, countless fans, including Vasquez, reviewing the tape believe otherwise....

This may be the Rolls-Royce of foreign bribery schemes, but only because it involves three former Rolls-Royce employees who pleaded guilty in a foreign bribery scheme. Interestingly, it was the UK company’s U.S. subsidiary that was alleged to have bribed officials in Asia in order to secure a gas pipeline construction contract there. Unfortunately for the U.S. based employees, their actions violated the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act which prohibits U.S. businesses from bribing foreign officials, or foreign government backed businesses for economic advantages....

The rise in drugged driving instances claimed a new, iconic face over the Memorial Day weekend. Tiger Woods was found asleep in his car on the side of a Florida road early Monday morning and failed numerous roadside sobriety tests, yet blew a .000 on the breathalyzer, twice. But Woods was still arrested and charged with DUI. Here’s why. You Don’t Have to Be Drunk Like nearly every state, Florida outlaws driving “under the influence of alcoholic beverages, any chemical substance … or any substance controlled under chapter 893, when affected to the extent that the person’s normal faculties are impaired....

For many law students, buying supplements like case outlines, summaries, or brief books may seem unusual. However, these supplements are geared toward helping students understand the important concepts from the specific cases in a textbook in less time. Most students expect that outlining, summarizing, or briefing each case is part of going to law school. While it is, there’s generally no homework in the traditional sense of the word. Only in the rarest of situations will any students be asked to turn in a case outline or brief or anything at all for that matter (except in writing courses)....

Venus Williams can finally exhale. The wrongful death suit filed against her by the family of Jerome Barson has been settled, though details of the settlement have not been disclosed. Williams was involved in a fatal car accident in June of 2017. She swerved and stopped in an intersection to avoid someone making a dangerous left turn. But when she proceeded through the intersection, she was t-boned by a driver coming perpendicular to her car....

It’s time! Bar review is done. Bar exam is done. It’s officially fall, and it’s time to get to work. For many of you, that means heading into the hallowed halls of BigLaw. Others will ply their trade for less pay, but arguably more noble causes. No matter where your shingle is hung, however, you are now joining the ranks of the working legal professionals. Congratulations. Now don’t screw it up....

Teenagers do dumb things. Just look at what happened to a girls basketball team in Maine whose members decided to pose on Facebook while giving a Nazi salute. We’ve all joked about things that are not politically correct. However, the difference with teens today are that they have ways to memorialize their dumb acts forever, and for everyone to see. When word of the photo got back to the high school principal, he took immediate disciplinary action against the students, reports The Bangor Daily News....

World Cup fever has swept up Americans, even if we stubbornly refer to the game of football as soccer. And with Germany and Argentina going head-to-head on Sunday, we thought now would be as good a time as any to reflect on what young attorneys could learn from World Cup 2014. So here we go with four lessons for young attorneys from World Cup 2014. Yes, you’re a type A personality that likes to win, but the reality of the situation is that you won’t always win....

Solos, what’s the hardest part of running your own practice? It’s not the billing, practice management, local rules, or even opposing counsel. And though you’re a recent graduate with little to no experience, you’ll pick up the nuances of the law as you go. No, the hardest part of running your own firm is getting clients in the door. You’ll get some referrals, a desperate friend or two, and maybe some court-appointed work, but if you want to thrive, rather than survive, you’ll eventually need a bigger client base than friends and family....

A bank robber in Alabama has an interesting defense. He claims that prayer led him to rob two banks. The suspect, Christopher Bruce, allegedly robbed the First Financial Bank last week and the West Alabama Bank the week prior, reports Birmingham’s WBRC-TV. After Bruce was caught, he reportedly told a tale of being down on his luck and looking for a way out. When he turned to God, Bruce said that the answer he received was to rob banks....

Hillary Clinton raised a few eyebrows when she hopped from the White House to her newly-purchased Chappaqua house in 2000. People don’t mind a change of address, but they care when political-hopefuls move to a state without a multi-year residency requirement to run for office. But what happens in states, like California, that have residency requirements that they don’t enforce? A former Republican candidate for the legislature is asking the state’s Supreme Court to hear her California residency requirements challenge to resolve whether the state must enforce its own election laws....