11/24/2008
doctor and lawyer
A client who felt his legal bill was too high
A lawyer was driving his big BMW
11/21/2008
The Fence
St. Peter sought out Satan."Hey, Satan, it's your turn to fix the fence. The big guy says it looks awful. Get it done."
"I like the way it looks," Satan answered. "I'm not doing anything."
"You have to," said St. Peter. "It's your duty. You signed a contract when we built the fence, and you are obligated to repair it."
"You think I care about that contract?" asked Satan. "You should know better than that. I said I am not doing anything, and if you don't leave me alone, I may just tell you what you can do with that contract."
"If you don't make the repairs," St. Peter said angrily, "The law will make you. If you don't live up to your obligations under the contract, we'll sue you."
"Sue me?" Satan couldn't help laughing. "Where are YOU gonna get a lawyer?"
How Much Is 2+2?
At the first lawyer's office, after an initial exchange of pleasantries, the businessman said, "Okay, let's get down to business. I have an important question for you, and I want you to think carefully before answering. How much is two plus two?"The lawyer raised his eyebrows. "two plus two is four." The businessman thanked him for his time, and proceeded to his next appointment.
The second lawyer, who was also a CPA, seemed a bit more particular than the first lawyer. After an initial discussion, the businessman again announced that he had a very important question, and asked, "How much is two plus two?"The second lawyer went over to a computer, and entered figures into a spreadsheet. "According to my calculations, two plus two is approximately four." The businessman thanked him for his time, and proceeded to his next appointment.
The third lawyer sat behind a big mahogany desk, and smoked a cigar. He seemed rather self-important as compared to the other two, but at the same time appeared to be much more successful. The businessman again announced, "I would like you to answer a very important question for me, before I decide whether I should use your services. How much is two plus two?"The lawyer pulls the shades, locked the door to his office, and asked in a hushed voice, "How much do you want it to be?"
11/20/2008
Japan is in trouble
What could cause such a sharp turnaround? High interest rates? Increased unemployment? Lower productivity? No, it's something much more economically debilitating - and permanent.
Three American lawyers have become the first foreign attorneys permitted to practice law in Japan. What's more, two of them are from New York!
The decline has begun.
Japan has one attorney for every 10,000 residents, compared to the U.S. ratio of one attorney for every 390 residents. For every 100 attorneys trained in Japan, there are 1,000 enginerrs. In the United States, that ratio is reversed.
But a law that became effective on April 1 permits foreigners to practice in Japan for the first time since 1955. Already, an additional 20 American and six British lawyers have applied for permission to open practices in Japan.
If anything can slow the Japanese economy, it's the presence of American attorneys. What better way to even our balance of trade than to send Japan our costliest surplus commodity?
11/19/2008
Lawyer's personal injury
"I'm an attorney," the wincing man said, "and this is going to cost you $5000."
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," the concerned golfer replied. "But I did yell 'fore'."
"I'll take it," the attorney said.
Replacing lab rats with lawyers
1. The lab assistants were becoming very attached to their little rats. This emotional involvement was interfering with the research being conducted. No such attachment could form for a lawyer.
2. Lawyers breed faster and are in much greater supply.
3. Lawyers are much cheaper to care for and the humanitarian societies won't jump all over you no matter what you're studying.
4. There are some things even a rat won't do.
11/18/2008
How to Do If You Are Diagnosed With Mesothelioma
Step #1
Seek a second opinion. One doctor can put you strictly on palliative (comfort) treatment while others will give you treatments to kill cancer cells. Get your doctor to run through each treatment review to see which one is applicable to you.
Step #2
Engage a mesothelioma lawyer to represent you in filing for compensation. Mesothelioma is predominantly caused by asbestos, a known cancer-causing agent that kept on being used for more than 50 years despite its hazardous nature. A good mesothelioma lawyer not will ensure you get in the justice you deserve in financial compensation to pay for medical fees and other expenses. Note that certain states have a time restriction in filing for a claim, so make sure you do this soon.
Step #3
Do not stop at conventional treatment at the doctor's office. Seek out alternative mesothelioma cancer treatment such as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Brandt grape therapy, Bill Henderson's protocol, Simoncini baking soda treatments and other alternative can reportedly reverse the effect of cancer.
Step#4
Change your lifestyle and diet. Needless to say, you must absolutely stop smoking. Stay away from smoke-filled environment and inhaling second-hand smoke. Detox your body regularly and adopt a mainly vegan diet. Exercise at least half an hour a day everyday to keep you active.
Step#5
Maintain a positive attitude in fighting mesothelioma. Read up on it, understand it and you will know how to contain it. New drugs and treatments are found all the time so be sure to keep yourself informed.Patients are usually too devastated to realize that there are 101 things they can do to change or improvised the situation they are in, upon learning about their illness. When they do eventually see the whole picture, it's too late to act. Do not make the same mistake, with a little knowledge and guidance, you can beat mesothelioma.
Go to Mesothelioma Lawyer to find out more about mesothelioma and hiring a mesothelioma attorney.
Asbestos Claim Lawyer
Southern California Fire Insurance Claims Attorney
Here's a round up of the current fires:
Montecito
A blaze that burned more than 110 homes in Santa Barbara County is still burning. A state of emergency was declared in Santa Barbara County as the fire has torched up to 2,500 acres -- 4 square miles. Over 5000 residents remained evacuated on Saturday.
San Fernando Valley
The Sayre fire is north of Los Angeles, near Sylmar. It has spread north near Newhall and has caused several freeway disruptions. The California Highway Patrol said it would reopen most freeways in the Newhall Pass area, including the Golden State (5), Foothill (210) and San Diego (405) freeways. Numerous offramps in the area have been intermittently closed. The Antelope Valley (14) Freeway has also been intermittently closed.It has burned 6,500 acres - with more 600 homes destroyed.
Corona - Yorba Linda - Anaheim Hills
At least a dozen homes were destroyed or damaged by a fire burning north of the Riverside (91) Freeway in Corona. Mandatory evacuation orders were given for about 3,100 homes in Anaheim Hills. A 250-unit apartment complex was severely damaged.Property damage during these fires will exceed hundred of millions of dollars. Insurance claims issues regarding coverage will lead to thousands of people searching the Internet for information - what will they find?
No win no Fee Whiplash Claims Lawyer
If you’ve been involved in a road accident whether as a driver, passenger or pedestrian you are very much entitled to make a claim. You may never know how long it may take for the injury to heal completely. If the injury is severe, it may take years. Besides, one may also have to cope up with the monetary losses in the form of damage to property and medical expenses.
For those who have suffered whiplash injuries can benefit by approaching no win no fee whiplash claims lawyer. These lawyers have an in depth experience in handling such cases. They can guide the victim of an accident to follow the necessary steps to get over the situation in a short period of time. Under the provision of no win no fee claims, the claimant need not pay any fee in case he loses the case.
It is very easy to get carried away by vague figures that some of the sites may portray as compensation you might receive. It is always safe to approach a lawyer who can study the case and arrive at conclusive figures and appropriate course of action. One must understand the fact that whiplash claims are not similar to other kinds of claims. It is not easy determining the severity of the injury. Hence, it calls for experts’ opinion.
Some of the common symptoms of whiplash injuries are pain around the neck, shoulder, dizziness, insomnia, fatigue etc. One should consult a doctor immediately after noticing such changes. Whiplash injury claims can provide victims of accident get compensated adequately for the losses suffered.
Whiplash claim lawyers can also guide the victims through the entire process of making a claim. They can give the exact estimate of the whiplash compensation that one can get. It is the right of every victim of an accident to make a claim. The chances of getting compensation are much higher as long as the injury has resulted due to the negligence of someone else. Whiplash injury claims have become a common occurrence these days.
Before approaching any company, one must ensure that has a track record of handling such cases well. Not all the companies that promise of proving compensation actually succeed. One must do a careful research before zeroing in on a company. Whiplash injury claim company can provide adequate guidance on how to make a claim successfully.
11/16/2008
Selecting a Personal Injury Attorney
New York Disability Claims Lawyer
This site provides some common sense do's and don'ts in an attempt to address the legal concerns of employees who have become or are about to become disabled. Among the topics addressed are "obtaining disability benefits," "overturning a denial of disability benefits," "saving your job," "leaving your job," "maximizing your pension," and "retaining your health care benefits."
DisabilityClaims.com is a resource sponsored and prepared by the lawyers at Riemer & Associates LLC. Riemer & Associates LLC is a New York City law firm dedicated to providing state-of-the-art legal representation to people with disabilities in order to protect their rights to disability benefits now and in the future.
11/13/2008
A Greedy lawyer
The lawyer immediately grabbed his cell phone, dialed 911, and within minutes a policeman pulled up. Before the officer had a chance to ask any questions, the lawyer started screaming hysterically. His Lexus, which he had just picked up the day before, was now completely ruined and would never be the same, no matter what the body shop did to it.
When the lawyer finally wound down from his ranting and raving, the officer shook his head in disgust and disbelief.
"I can't believe how materialistic you lawyers are," he said. "You are so focused on your possessions that you don't notice anything else."
"How can you say such a thing?" asked the lawyer.
The cop replied, "Don't you know that your left arm is missing from the elbow down? It must have been torn off when the truck hit you."
"My God!" screamed the lawyer. "Where's my Rolex?"
Roh Moo hyun-A Lawyer President
His political career was marked by several dramatic events, including attempts to overcome regionalism in South Korean politics, culminating in his election to the presidency. The emergence of a liberal reformist and anti-American political movement in the country was another factor in his victory.
Roh's presidency has been marked by controversies, with his opponents staging a failed impeachment attempt. Although he was reinstated with a stronger mandate than he had when he entered office, continued controversies and accusations of incompetence resulted in a drop in popularity.
Roh's policy highlights include an unpopular decision to send Korean troops to Iraq, a failed attempt to relocate the capital from Seoul to the Chungcheong region, and a bid for a grand coalition with the conservative Grand National Party that was widely criticized.
Personal background
With First Lady Kwon Yang-sook ,Roh has a daughter (Roh Jeong-yeon, born 1975), an embassy worker; and a son (Roh Geon-ho, born 1973), a former LG Electronics employee and a current MBA student at Stanford University. Roh is a Roman Catholic, like his predecessor, Kim Dae-Jung.
Roh was born in 1946 to a poor farming family in Gimhae, near Busan, in southeastern South Korea. In 1960, he led a protest at his school against mandatory essays extolling his country's first autocrat. A high school graduate who never went to college, he worked at odd jobs after serving in the Korean army.
He studied on his own to pass the bar exam in 1975. In 1977, he became regional judge in Daejeon, and began privately practising tax law in 1978. In 1981, he defended students who had been tortured for possession of contraband literature. In early 2003, he was quoted as saying, "When I saw their horrified eyes and their missing toenails, my comfortable life as a lawyer came to an end." He opposed the autocracy in place at the time in South Korea, and participated in the pro-democracy June Struggle in 1987 against the authoritarian president Chun Doo-hwan.
CMS：Who we are
CMS is managed by an Executive Committee, whose current Chairman is Cornelius Brandi, and a full-time Executive Partner, Dick Tyler, who is based in Frankfurt. The Executive Partner is supported by professional directors in the areas of Operations, HR, Finance & Administration and Brand Marketing.
CMS nine member firms are: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy); CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain); CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France); CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (UK); CMS DeBacker (Belgium); CMS Derks Star Busmann (Netherlands); CMS von Erlach Henrici AG (Switzerland); CMS Hasche Sigle (Germany); and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria).
A thorough understanding
CMS clients receive a consistent level of service and advice from all CMS firms – exactly what they would expect from a single organisation, but keeping the personal service and market sensitivity that are the hallmarks of each CMS member.
Our approach to client satisfaction is based upon three aspects of “understanding”:
Understanding clients businesses through CMS sector groups and common client relationship management systems
Understanding the law through the excellent experience profile and reputation of each CMS firm in its national market
Understanding each other through a shared history, common training and a track record of working together to secure the best possible outcomes for our clients
CMS Legal Services EEIG
CMS's activities are coordinated through a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) registered in Frankfurt, Germany.
The central office of CMS Legal Services EEIG is located in Frankfurt, Germany. The office is the location for the Executive Partner of CMS and the support organisations, Finance & Administration and Marketing. Office address: CMS Legal Services EEIG Barckhausstrasse 12-16 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany T +49 69 71 701 500 F +49 69 71 701 550 E info@cmslegal.com
Presently CMS operates in over 48 business cities throughout the world and has over 595 partners, more than 2,240 legal and tax advisers and a total staff in excess of 4600.
Trust Law Firm
Many lawyers in Trust who engage in providing international legal service graduated from renowned European and American universities with Master's or Doctorate Degrees, practiced in foreign countries, and can provide legal service through fluent Chinese, English, French, German, and various local languages of China.
Trust sets up funds for advanced studies and training of lawyers, regularly providing training and advanced studies programs to all lawyers, and occasionally designates lawyers for advanced studies programs in Europe, America, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
A Family Rule
Mr. Jones was quite happy about it, so they went, and both of them enjoyed the film.
They came out of the cinema at 11 o'clock, got into their car and began driving home. It was quite dark. Then Mrs. Jones said, "Look, Bill. A woman's running along the road very fast, and a man's running after her. Can you see them?"
Mr. Jones said, "Yes, I can." He drove the car slowly near the woman and said to her, "Can we help you?"
"No, thank you," the woman said, but she did not stop running. "My husband and I always run home after the cinema, and the last one washes the dishes at home!"
11/11/2008
Mesothelioma settlements
Required documentationWhen considering starting a mesothelioma case, it is important that you have various documentation. Medical records showing asbestos-caused medical conditions (particularly mesothelioma, which can only be caused by asbestos) are necessary. There is a statute of limitations on mesothelioma cases so make sure that you file within a couple years of diagnosis. If left too long you may not be entitled to any compensation. It is also useful to have documents showing employement by the company that you worked for at a specific time and place.
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Why Use a Law Firm ?
The answer is simple. All your transactions with a Panama Law Firm are covered by tight Attorney Client Privileged Communication. The lawyer/law firm can not reveal anything about the client or their transactions, business dealings, etc. unless specifically authorized by the client. The exception to this would be if ordered by a Panama Court which is a possibility but something very rarely seen.
Lawyers have to pass background checks from their government in addition to attending law school. The government knows who their lawyers are and regulates them. Lawyers have obligations and fiduciary responsibilities to their clients.
We see many people buying corporations, trusts, etc. from non-lawyer web based businesses and also for bank accounts. It for some reason never occurs to the client that the entity they are doing business with has all their private financial information such as name of their company, ownership of the company, passports, bank and business reference letters, addresses, phones, email, business information, where their bank account is, etc. These entities they are doing business with have no binding legislation or regulations on them preventing them from revealing any of this information to whoever they wish to reveal it to. In most cases they could not protect the client if they wanted to since they have no privileged communication. If they got a phone call from a governmental agency from 6,000 miles away the chances are they would cave in and provide the requested information. These phone calls usually go like this: I am so and so Inspector with the Tax Police of ABC country. Your country already knows that I am investigating this case. This means he sent an email to the government. I have a court order signed by a Judge would you like me to fax it over to you? This means the court order is as a rule almost never valid in the jurisdiction he is calling. Now when your friendly corporation registered agent says something cute like the court order is not from here and you have no authority here what he gets back sounds like this. If you fail to cooperate I will file a suspicious criminal actions report with your police since for all we know you are the owners of the corporation in question and are the guilty parties and we will ask that you be investigated by your police. This is usually done in a threatening way since it is a bluff. Now the corporate agent thinking the last thing he needs is to be the subject of an investigation by his own police and has to hire a lawyer, etc. says, wait a minute what is it you want? Okay wait while I pull it up for you. This probably took 3-5 minutes and your privacy is violated. No attorney client privilege means no downside for the corporate agent to cooperate. What would we say? We’d say there is attorney client privilege in Panama and you must get a court order from a Panama Judge ordering us to release any information about any client and then we’d hang up without providing any information.
Corporate Agents Offering corporations in Many Jurisdictions - Do not be deceived by firms that offer bank accounts and corporations from numerous countries. They are merely corporate agents or resellers of corporations from these countries. It is not very hard to become a reseller in many of these countries. Their ploy for credibility is selling from many different countries so you see a big shopping list of jurisdictions and think they are a real credible operation when they are really nothing more than a relatively unregulated offshore corporation based in some tax haven selling you formations in different jurisdictions most of which are not any good for asset protection, corporate privacy, or even bank secrecy. If you read through our web site you will soon realize that most if not all of these jurisdictions are “has been” privacy jurisdictions that are no longer private. They sell these products to people who are familiar with the jurisdiction from the past reputation but have not followed the recent changes in the laws relating to these jurisdictions in the post 9-11 world. If we knew of a better jurisdiction than Panama we would offer it!
Law Firms in Your Own Country - Be careful about using a law firm in your own country even if they offer to set up an offshore structure for you. The weak link in the chain is the attorney is located in the country where you are. If you felt your country respected the individual’s right to privacy and operated a fair and equitable court system you would probably not be reading this.
Attacking Attorney Client Privilege - An adversary can attack the attorney client privilege claiming your attorney conspired with you or was complicit in some way in something you allegedly did like the fraudulent conveyance of assets to avoid creditors, fraud, misrepresentation, tax violations pertaining to income tax, sales tax, property tax, gift tax, inheritance tax, probate tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax and other assorted and sundry taxes, creation of straw man trusts and other asset protection shams, money laundering, and the list can go on and on. We are not saying you did or should do such things, in fact you should not do such things, we are saying it can be alleged that you did such things and these allegations in these non-privacy countries are enough to break the attorney client privilege you have with the attorney. Jurisdictions that do not respect privacy and do not have fair and equitable court systems are not going to let a thing like attorney client privilege stop a big law firm from taking away your assets in the name of justice.
Suing your Attorney - Let’s assume the judge not understanding too much about offshore structures says well I don’t see anything here to justify the violation of attorney client privilege, what do you think the other side does next, walk away and forget about you? Not so fast, they can smell your assets and want a big bite as soon as they can get it. They see a chink in your armor that they are not finished exploiting. The chink is you did not use an attorney in a privacy oriented jurisdiction even though you might have used an offshore structure in one. So now they just add your attorney into the lawsuit as an additional defendant alleging him or her to be a conspirator in the plot to defraud the creditor out of his pound of flesh he wishes to take from your life savings, real estate, business, estate, etc. This gives them a shot at piercing attorney client privilege which is to say the attorney used an offshore structure to make discovery impossible thus thwarting justice and is sheltering the defendants assets behind attorney client privilege as an another layer in the scheme to defraud their client from collecting his lawful court ordered debt by grabbing your assets. If the other side is motivated and has money they will wear down your asset protection strategy until they can reach out and grab your assets. If you sued a lawyer in a privacy jurisdiction like Panama and did your formations there and banked there, you would be the one wearing down your adversary who would be getting frustrated spending time and money and getting nowhere in the Panama courts. They would be getting their cases dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, incorrect venue, etc. This could motivate your adversary to settle for pennies on the dollar after they had a very expensive taste of the Panama Courts, or they just decide they can’t penetrate your structure not even being sure what your structure is and plain give up. Using a lawyer in your own country to formulate your asset protection strategy is a weak link that should not be presented to a financial enemy. The same applies to using an attorney in another country where privacy and justice have disappeared. One privacy hating unfair jurisdiction can usually reach out to another privacy hating unfair jurisdiction and get their assistance, alleging almost anything will work in these jurisdictions. Some of these countries actually respect the court orders from another country, all that is required is a trip to the local court to have the foreign court order rubber stamped and thus domesticated and made enforceable. This is common with money judgments from foreign countries in the privacy hating jurisdictions but you do not have much to worry about in Panama.
How to do it -Use a law firm only in the jurisdiction where your corporation, foundation and bank are located. This way not only can the law firm that did your asset protection structure help you if trouble comes knocking on your door but your confidential information is out of reach of the courts your financial enemies will use. Do not use a corporation agent or non-lawyer for your asset protection. There is no attorney client privilege.
Anonymity is your Friend - Anonymity is your first line of defense. Only use anonymous bearer share corporations or anonymous foundations where no ownership records are in existence in any government registry (Panama). Panama Foundation assets are not sequesterable (not freezable). This makes discovery of ownership impossible even with a court order. Make sure the corporation or foundation need not file any tax returns and has no tax liabilities based on profit, income or assets (Panama). Tax returns could lead to an audit. Make sure the publicly recorded nominees of the corporation or foundation do not know the owners (Panama). Make sure there is tight Bank Secrecy (Panama has the best in the world now). Make sure there is strong attorney client privilege ( Panama). Make sure the jurisdiction in question is in no tax treaties with any country (Panama). Make sure the jurisdiction in question allows for no fishing expeditions (Panama). Make sure the jurisdiction in question does not cooperate on fiscal offenses (Panama, in Panama all tax offenses are civil not criminal). Make sure the jurisdiction does not allow civil lawsuits concerning matters that did not take place in the jurisdiction to be tried in their courts just because the corporation, foundation or bank account is domiciled there (Panama). Make sure the jurisdiction is dependent on corporate privacy and bank secrecy for its economy (Panama has 400,000 corporations domiciled there and there are 150 banks in country whose population is 2.9 million people, employing 20% of the workforce.
Hello Panama, Goodbye Switzerland!
11/09/2008
Lawyer Joke Text Messages
Client: Atty, can you please write an Affidavit of Lost for me?Lawyer: Affidavit of Lost? What are the things that you lost?Client: I lost my wife, Atty.
Question: What is the other name of lawyer?Answer: Attorney at law.Question: What do you call the client of lawyer?Answer: Financier of Attorney
A lawyer joke...
11/07/2008
A Lawyer and a Ukrainian
A lawyer and a Ukrainian are sitting next to each other on a long flight. The lawyer is thinking that Ukrainians are so dumb that he could get over on them easy...So the lawyer asks if the Ukrainian would like to play a fun game.
The Ukrainian is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists, and says that the game is a lot of fun. I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me only $5; you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500, he says. This catches the Ukrainianʼs attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.
Now, it's the Ukrainian's turn. He asks the lawyer, 'What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?' The lawyer uses his laptop and searches all references he could find on the Net. He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail. After one hour of searching he finally gives up. He wakes up the Ukrainian and hands him $500. The Ukrainian pockets the $500 and goes right back to sleep.
The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer. He wakes the Ukrainian up and asks, 'Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?'
The Ukrainian reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep.
The lawyer
Recently, the blog friends asked me if old lawyers? Take not a lawyer?
Really depressed. I really don't like a lawyer?
From entering the legal profession, I have lost count of how
many people ask the same question.
People's lawyer image what?
According to the mirror again, I didn't feel according to what I
don't like some lawyers!
Why so many people think I don't like a lawyer?
Perhaps, is too many people have no contact with the legal
profession. They will be his idea of image contrast with my
lawyer, might think I don't like lawyers!
Here, I want to tell all the friends of loud, I am a lawyer: by
the judicial qualification examination of the US of practicing lawyer. It is no doubt that the.
So, please don't ask friends, so a similar problem, I am
"injury". Hehe!
Lawyers with ordinary people as fact. Female lawyer is usually
a legend "outside", "the feminist", is actually a lawyer for
the misunderstanding.
In addition to work on a need to put on the clothing, vice
"serious" faces, in private, female lawyer with the general
women are the same.
They also love beautiful, like shopping for clothes, dressed
up like their beauty touching!
Some friends think I don't like the lawyer's another reason
may be age!
Well, most people trust older lawyers! Most people think that
the young lawyer like me not certain level.
I admit that there are old lawyer their strengths, for example,
experience.
But, I want to tell you, a lawyer, and how the professional
level can only by age determination?
I can only tell you that old lawyers have the advantage of old
and young lawyer lawyer has advantages of young lawyer. It is
not for comparison.
"Lawyer" as a professional relatively strong industry, in today's
highspeed economic development, "the market" to the lawyer's
professional quality put forward higher request。
I love "lawyer" this career!
I think that in future days, I need to do is to learn legal
professional knowledge, perfect the legal knowledge "and" good
"image" to win more people trust, do a good female lawyer!
11/06/2008
Barack Obama
Previously, Obama worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney in Chicago, and served for eight years in the Illinois State Senate.
Obama was born August 4,1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places, including Indonesia. His mother was from Kansas and his father from Kenya. Obama attended Columbia University in New York and earned a law degree at Harvard University in Massachusetts. He and his wife, Michelle Obama, who also worked as a lawyer and later for the University of Chicago, have two young daughters.
How to Find the Right Personal Injury Lawyer
What it is?
Maybe you are not even aware of what a personal injury lawyer is. A personal injury lawyer is a lawyer that provides legal representation to those who claim to have been injured physically or psychologically.Dedicated to helping victims of car accidents and clinical negligence and will defend your rights in court are these type of lawyers. With thousands of negligence cases including DUI cases, workplace safety infractions, and negligent maintenance of pedestrian walkways, it is important to ensure that you have the best lawyer there to represent youWhere to LookThere are lots of different places that you can go to if you want to find one of these injury lawyers, such as a head injury lawyer, but above all else the Internet will be the best resource available to you here. You can browse through literally thousands upon thousands of different websites and online companies and find just the right lawyer with the internet.You can find any lawyer that you want online whether you are looking for a personal injury lawyer or a lawyer for any other issue such as assault, corporate, securities, sports, litigation, licensing, legal malpractice, or libel and slander, etc..You can even find lawyers halfway across the world, which can be useful if it means that you are going to be getting the best possible lawyer and at the best price.There are also professionals that you can go to if you want some advice on how to find a lawyer and where to look. They will also let you know if you may be eligible for financial assistance, because this is a possibility and if so, this could help you out a great deal. Few people can stand the expense on their own budget and after all it can be incredibly expensive to pay for a lawyer.
11/05/2008
Obama Personal
Birth date: August 4, 1961 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia; Honolulu, Hawaii
Spouse: Michelle Robinson Obama
Children: Malia Ann Obama, Sasha Obama
Religion: United Church of Christ
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1991
Occidential College/Columbia University, B.A.
Punahou School
Experience
Businesses Owned, Past Careers, Board Memberships, Etc.:
Center for Neighborhood and Technology
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Cook County Bar
Cook County Bar Association Community Law Project
Board Member, Joyce Foundation
Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
Leadership for Quality Education
Member, Trinity United Church of Christ
Board Member, Woods Fund of Chicago
Public Service / Elected Offices:
Senator, United States Senate, 2005-presentSenator, Illinois State
Senate, 1997-2004
Book(s)Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Obama's victory-lawyer's victory
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned.
Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated Republican John McCain to become the first African-American destined to sit in the Oval Office, America's 44th president. He was the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
"It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America," Obama told a victory rally of 125,000 people jammed into Chicago's Grant Park.
Obama scored an Electoral College landslide that redrew America's political map. He won states that reliably voted Republican in presidential elections, like Indiana and Virginia, which hadn't supported the Democratic candidate in 44 years. Ohio and Florida, key to Bush's twin victories, also went for Obama, as did Pennsylvania, which McCain had deemed crucial for his election hopes.
With just 76 days until the inauguration, Obama is expected to move quickly to begin assembling a White House staff and selecting Cabinet nominees.
Campaign officials said Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel was the front-runner to be Obama's chief of staff. The advisers spoke on a condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.
Democrats expanded their majority in both houses of Congress. In the Senate, Democrats ousted Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and John Sununu of New Hampshire and captured seats held by retiring GOP senators in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado. Still, the GOP blocked a complete rout, holding the Kentucky seat of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a Mississippi seat once held by Trent Lott — two top Democratic targets.
In the House, with fewer than a dozen races still undecided, Democrats captured Republican-held seats in the Northeast, South and West and were on a path to pick up as many as 20 seats.
When Obama and running mate Joe Biden take their oath of office on Jan. 20, Democrats will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994.
"It is not a mandate for a party or ideology but a mandate for change," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said: "Tonight the American people have called for a new direction. They have called for change in America."
After the longest and costliest campaign in U.S. history, Obama was propelled to victory by voters dismayed by eight years of George W. Bush's presidency and deeply anxious about rising unemployment and home foreclosures and a battered stock market that has erased trillions of dollars of savings for Americans.
Six in 10 voters picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation in an Associated Press exit poll. None of the other top issues — energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care — was selected by more than one in 10. Obama has promised to cut taxes for most Americans, get the United States out of Iraq and expand health care, including mandatory coverage for children.
Obama acknowledged that repairing the economy and dealing with problems at home and overseas will not happen quickly. "We may not get there in one year or even in one term," he said. "But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there."
McCain conceded defeat shortly after 11 p.m. EST, telling supporters outside the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, "The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly."
"This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and the special pride that must be theirs tonight," McCain said. "These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face."
Obama faces a staggering list of problems, and he mentioned some of them in his victory speech. "Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century." He spoke of parents who worry about paying their mortgages and medical bills.
"There will be setbacks and false starts," Obama said. "There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem."
The son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, the 47-year-old Obama has had a startlingly rapid rise, from lawyer and community organizer to state legislator and U.S. senator, now just four years into his first term. He is the first senator elected to the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Bush called Obama with congratulations at 11:12 p.m. EST. "I promise to make this a smooth transition," the president said. "You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life. Congratulations and go enjoy yourself." He invited Obama and his family to visit the White House soon.
Bush planned to make a statement about the election at midmorning Wednesday in the Rose Garden.
With most U.S. precincts tallied, the popular vote was 51.9 percent for Obama and 46.8 percent for McCain. But the count in the Electoral College was lopsided in Obama's favor over McCain — 349 to 147 as of early Wednesday, with three states still to be decided. Those were North Carolina, Georgia and Missouri.
Obama won California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
McCain had Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. He also won at least 3 of Nebraska's five electoral votes, with the other two in doubt.
Almost six in 10 women supported Obama nationwide, while men leaned his way by a narrow margin, according to interviews with voters. Just over half of whites supported McCain, giving him a slim advantage in a group that Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004.
The results of the AP survey were based on a preliminary partial sample of nearly 10,000 voters in Election Day polls and in telephone interviews over the past week for early voters.
In terms of turnout, America voted in record numbers. It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country's precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent turnout rate.
"That would be the highest turnout rate that we've seen since 1908," which was 65.7 percent, McDonald said early Wednesday.
11/04/2008
A FIRM WITH CLIENTS
Punishment Measures for Illegal Actions of lawyer and law firm
Issued on March 19, 2004 by Ministry of Justice and shall be put in force from May 1, 2004.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 1 In order to standardize to supervision and punishment to illegal actions of lawyers and law firms, protect the healthy development of lawyer industry, in accordance with
Article 2 The justice administrative institute shall impose the administrative punishment to lawyers and law firms in accordance with the pertinent laws and regulations and
Article 3 The justice administrative institute shall impose the administrative punishment to lawyers and law firms following the principle of publicity and equity. To impose the administrative punishment should be based on the fact and correspond the fact, quality, situation and how harmful to the society.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 4 The justice administrative institute should exert the lawyer association's function when to check and dispose the illegal actions of lawyers and law firms.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 5 The kinds of administrative punishment to illegal actions of lawyers are as follows:
1. warning;
2. confiscating illegal income;
3. stopping professional action;
4. revoking license.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 6 The kings of administrative punishment to illegal actions of law firms:
1. warning;
2. confiscating illegal income;
3. stopping business and consolidating;
4. revoking license.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Regarding to confiscating illegal income, it maybe disposed more than 1 times but less than 5 times of fines simultaneously.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 7 Due to the illegal actions under the Article 44, item 1-10 and Article 45 of Lawyer Law, the justice administrative institute should impose the impose the relevant punishment in accordance with the Lawyer Law and this Measures.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 8 The following actions of lawyers shall be met the Article 44, item 11 of Lawyer Law which stipulates as "other actions which should be punished" and the justice administrative institute shall be impose the relevant punishment in accordance with the lawyer Law and this Measures:
1. conducting business at law firm and other legal service entity simultaneously;
2. in same case, simultaneously representing the consigner and the third party who has interest conflict with consigner or defending for them;
3. in tow or more than two cases which have interest conflict relationship, separately representing the consigners who have interest conflict each other or defending for them.(www.21lawyer.cn)
4. during the time of being legal consul, representing the counterpart or others who have interest conflict with the entity which are receiving the legal advices, or defending for them;
5. providing the illusive commitment to consigners in order to obtain the business;
6. promoting untruly and unsuitably through media, advertisement or other methods;
7. making up and spreading false information, blemishing and bespattering other lawyers, law firms' reputations;
8. using the relationship with justice institutes, administrative institutes and other governing organizations to compete unfairly;
9. after accepting the consignation, performing the duty carelessly so that make damages and loses to the consigner;
10. after accepting the consignation, not supplying the provided legal services without any rational reasons;
11. beyond the consignation limit, conducting the actions without connection to the consigned legal issues;
12. after accepting the consignation, deliberately damaging consigner's advantages or colluding with malice with counterpart or the third party to damage the consigner's advantages;
13. menacing and threatening consigners in order to prevent consigner from releasing the consignation or detaining the documents from consigner without rational reasons;
14. violating the rules of lawyer service charges or clauses on charges in contract to ask for charges or capitals or properties beyond the rules and contract;
15. conducing the legal services in name of non-lawyer when holding the license;
16. During the time of dealing the case, meeting with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators or other relevant stuff involved in the case in the non-working time, now working site, or violating regulations or rules to meet judges, prosecutors, arbitrators or other relevant stuff with one side;
17. lawyers who took the position of judges or prosecutors, within 2 years after leaving the positions, act as representors or defenders for litigation, or act as representors or defenders for cases which were dealt by them when they were on the said positions;
18. violating the rules to take non-lawyers to meet the suspects or defendant in prisons or violating the rules when meeting with the suspects or defendant in prisons;
19. supplying illusive material, keeping from important facts to justice administrative institute or lawyer association or other false actions ;
20. keeping on professional actions during the time of stopping professional action; or keeping on professional actions during the time of stopping business and consolidating or after revoking the license;
21. other illegal actions or actions of breaching the lawyer ethical, citizen ethic rules, damaging the lawyer professional figures severely.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 9 One of the following actions of law firms should be imposed warning, confiscating illegal income or stopping business and consolidating for more than 3 months but less than 1 year:
1. acting in the name of non-approved law firms or changing or borrowing the name of law firm without approval;
2. changing the name, articles of associations and persons in charge, partners, address, or partnership agreement, but non-filing the changes in the required time;
3. preventing partners, cooperators or lawyers from leaving the law firm with unfair method;
4. agreeing unqualified persons to be partners, cooperators or persons in charge of the law firms;
5. not following the rules to uniformly accept the consignation, sign written retainer agreement and payment agreement and receive all kinds of fees from consigners uniformly, or not following the rules to keep and use the format letters, financial bills and files special for lawyer services;
6. not issuing the legal bills of lawyer services to consigners, or not providing consigners the valid credence for the expenses of dealing the cases;
7. violating the rules of lawyer service fees or clauses of payment agreement , without agreement to enlarging the charge scope, improving the charge standard, or ask for other fees beyond the rules and agreements;
8. setting up office, reception out of the address without approval, or setting up branches without approval;
9. not following the rules to sign employment agreements with employed lawyers and other staffs and not to join the social insurances for employees;
10. evading in malice the debts of law firms and their branches;
11. promoting untruly and unsuitably on media, advertisement and other methods;
12. earning business in the way of paying introduction fees, providing commissions, or making advantage commitment, etc unfair methods
13. using the relationship with justice institutes, administrative institutes and other social governing organizations to compete unfairly;
14. making up and spreading false information, blemishing and bespattering other
lawyers, law firms' reputations;
15. authorizing the lawyers in the firm to represent both parties or clients who have interest conflict each other or defending for them in one case, but except that if both parties agreed and only one law firm in the town;
16. disclosing consigner's business secret and privacy;
17. supplying illusive material, keeping from important facts to justice administrative institute or lawyer association or other false actions;
18. allowing or tacit accepting the lawyers who was punished to stop the professional actions keeping work in the law firm;
19. supplying convenience for the non-licensed staff or other actions of lawyers in law firm through the method of giving or supplying the introduction letter of law firm, format letter and bills of lawyer services;
20. printing out lawyer name cards, logos or issuing other lawyers ID for non-licensed staff, or not stopping the said actions of staff in law firm even if knowing the situations;
21. allowing or tacit accepting the lawyers in the law firm to buy goods, providing travel expenses, reimbursing the expenses, decoration of houses, or supplying traffic and communication vehicles for judges, prosecutors, and arbitrators who are in charge of the cases;
22. not paying taxations according to laws and regulations;
23. other actions what should be punished.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 10 The following actions of law firms shall be punished to revoke the license, if there is illegal income, it should be confiscated the illegal income and make a fine simultaneously:
1. not to correct after receiving the punishment of stopping business and consolidating, or keeping business during the time of stopping business and consolidating;
2. bribing to the judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff;
3. imposed by criminal punishment;
4. other illegal actions to damage the lawyer professional figures severely.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 11 If lawyers and law firms have the illegal actions under the Lawyer Law and this Measures, the justice administrative institute should file a case and make investigation, examine the overall, subjective and equity facts, collect the evidences as soon as they find and receive any complaints. The investigated lawyers and law firms should state the fax to investigation institutes and supply the relevant materials.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 12 The justice administrative institute may authorize lawyer association to investigate the illegal actions of lawyers and law firms.(www.21lawyer.cn)
The authorized lawyer association may examine the overall, subjective and equity facts, collect the evidences and give suggestions on administrative punishment to justice administrative institutes.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 13 Before making administrative punishment to lawyers and law firms, the justice administrative institutes should notice the examined illegal fact, reason and basis of punishment, and notice the party owns his right according to laws and regulations. Oral notice should be recorded in written. Lawyers and law firms have right to make statement and appeal, and have rights to apply for hearing.(www.21lawyer.cn)
If the lawyers and law firms do not agree the administrative punishment, it has rights to apply for administrative reconsideration or administrative litigation.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 14 On process on investigating the anti-professional ethical and anti-professional discipline actions of lawyers and law firms, lawyer associations, if finding the situations which should be administrative punishment under lawyer Law and this Measures, should be delivered to the justice administrative institutes which have the jurisdiction.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 15 On process on investigating the illegal actions of lawyers and law firms, justice administrative institute and lawyer association, if thinking the actions which should belong to criminal actions, should be delivered to the relevant institute to impose criminal responsibility.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 16 This Measures shall be explained by the Ministry of Justice.(www.21lawyer.cn)
Article 17 This Measures shall be put in force from May 1, 2004.
11/03/2008
Lawyer Joke
A lawyer joke...
Estate lawyer joke courtesy of John Cremer.
Denver Personal Injury Lawyer handles claims against insurance companies
Colorado recently enacted a law that provides remedies against insurance companies for unreasonably delaying or denying a claim. The new law, House Bill 08-1407, provides meaningful remedies to those who have had claims unreasonably denied or delayed by insurance companies. The law applies to the following types of insurance: auto, home, health, disability. It may apply to other types of insurance, but the law does not apply to workers’ compensation, life insurance or title insurance.
Prior to the enactment of this law, injured people were at a huge disadvantage in bringing claims against insurance companies, largely because the cost of bringing the lawsuit outweighed the potential benefits of obtaining a recovery. House Bill 08-1407 gives people the power to take legal action when insurance companies fail to pay their claims in a reasonable and timely manner. Potential remedies under the law include past benefits owed, double damages, and attorneys’ fees. So if you have a claim worth $35,000.00, and you prove the insurance company unreasonably delayed or denied paying the claim, then under House Bill 08-1407 you could receive double the $35,000.00, plus your attorney’s fees.
No win no Fee Whiplash Claims Lawyer
The thought of making a claim after an accident doesn’t even cross the mind of the victim. The impact of the pain is such that majority of the victims of the accident overlook the fact that they can make a claim. The victims of the accidents suffer from not only physical pain but also emotional trauma. In such circumstance, the thought of making a claim may not strike the victims of the accident.
If you’ve been involved in a road accident whether as a driver, passenger or pedestrian you are very much entitled to make a claim. You may never know how long it may take for the injury to heal completely. If the injury is severe, it may take years. Besides, one may also have to cope up with the monetary losses in the form of damage to property and medical expenses.
For those who have suffered whiplash injuries can benefit by approaching no win no fee whiplash claims lawyer. These lawyers have an in depth experience in handling such cases. They can guide the victim of an accident to follow the necessary steps to get over the situation in a short period of time. Under the provision of no win no fee claims, the claimant need not pay any fee in case he loses the case.
It is very easy to get carried away by vague figures that some of the sites may portray as compensation you might receive. It is always safe to approach a lawyer who can study the case and arrive at conclusive figures and appropriate course of action. One must understand the fact that whiplash claims are not similar to other kinds of claims. It is not easy determining the severity of the injury. Hence, it calls for experts’ opinion.
Some of the common symptoms of whiplash injuries are pain around the neck, shoulder, dizziness, insomnia, fatigue etc. One should consult a doctor immediately after noticing such changes. Whiplash injury claims can provide victims of accident get compensated adequately for the losses suffered.
Whiplash claim lawyers can also guide the victims through the entire process of making a claim. They can give the exact estimate of the whiplash compensation that one can get. It is the right of every victim of an accident to make a claim. The chances of getting compensation are much higher as long as the injury has resulted due to the negligence of someone else. Whiplash injury claims have become a common occurrence these days.
Before approaching any company, one must ensure that has a track record of handling such cases well. Not all the companies that promise of proving compensation actually succeed. One must do a careful research before zeroing in on a company. Whiplash injury claim company can provide adequate guidance on how to make a claim successfully.
11/02/2008
Lowyer : The Lehman Job
In addition to the 20-partner team, 60 associates are already working on the Lehman administration. Linklaters insiders are predicting that due to the complexity of the insolvency, the lawyer tally is likely to approach 200 within months.
In a statement today, Lehman joint administrator and PwC partner Tony Lomas said: "There is unprecedented uncertainty and complexity in the market; nobody designed their systems or transaction structures to cope with the current situation."
PwC and Linklaters are also negotiating with potential purchasers for Lehman's asset management and corporate finance businesses, which are likely to be sold in the next week.
Other partner involved on the deal are:
- Richard Bussell, Rebecca Jarvis, Yushan Ng (banking)
- Michael Kent, peter Bevan (financial markets)
- Simon Firth, Pauline Ashall (capital markets)
- John Turnbull, Euan Clarke (litigation)
- James Knox (real estate)
- Raymond Jeffers, Catrina Smith (employment)
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