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S.A. Law: What Was She Thinking?
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Monday, May 18, 2009. What Was She Thinking? Perhaps some of you in the San Antonio legal community haven't yet heard about the local attorney busted for marijuana possession. As she tried to enter the Bexar County Courthouse. The punchline to this story: She claims she was holding it for a client. Article calls her a defense attorney, but her State Bar web page. Lists her primary practice areas as labor law and construction.). Strange in San Antonio.
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S.A. Law: Soliciting Plagiarism
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Friday, May 8, 2009. I saw this ad on Craigslist. From someone in Northwest San Antonio:. I need a two to three page legal opinion letter for a class assignment. I do not have time to do this assignment, so I am willing to pay $40 for a legal assistant, paralegal, or law student to do this assignment for me. I know it's unethical for students to claim others' work as their own. Student at any institution? I wonder what sort of class this assignment is...
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S.A. Law: November 2008
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Saturday, November 22, 2008. New Location for Graduation. Here's some news I just heard that should be of interest to the S.A. law community:. St Mary's University School of Law. Is moving its graduation ceremony from on campus to downtown. My classmates and I walked the stage at the school's traditional graduation location, the Bill Greehey Arena. And Keith McMahon in particular- worked to convince the law school administration to change that. I hope...
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S.A. Law: St. Mary's Law School Professor to Senate: Enhanced Interrogation ≠ Torture
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Thursday, May 14, 2009. St Mary's Law School Professor to Senate: Enhanced Interrogation ≠ Torture. In a hearing this week on the Bush Administration's torture memos. Professor Jeffrey F. Addicot. Director of the St. Mary's law school's Center for Terrorism Law. Tells the U.S. Senate's Administrative Oversight and the Courts subcommittee. That he does not consider "enhanced interrogation" methods such as waterboarding to amount to torture. Sets out te...
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S.A. Law: Judge Lamberth's Speech to the San Antonio Bar
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Friday, February 20, 2009. Judge Lamberth's Speech to the San Antonio Bar. I received an email noting that many of District of Columbia Chief Judge Royce Lamberth. S friends in Washington are interested in what he had to say to the San Antonio Bar Association. I did not take notes during the speech, but here (paraphrased) are a few things I recall Judge Lamberth mentioning:. He disagrees with the idea that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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S.A. Law: E-N Story on St. Mary's Shakeup
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Saturday, April 25, 2009. E-N Story on St. Mary's Shakeup. Covers student reactions to the ouster of two law professors. A group of students at St. Mary's University School of Law are protesting the school's decision to terminate contracts for two female professors, one of them black, saying the move is a blow to diversity on a faculty where women and minorities are already underrepresented. From the American Association of University Professors.
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S.A. Law: Judge Lamberth Says Judicial Nomination System Is Broken
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Friday, May 1, 2009. Judge Lamberth Says Judicial Nomination System Is Broken. SA native Royce C. Lamberth. The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Who spoke to the San Antonio Bar Association. In February, returned to the Alamo City this weekend (he and his wife have family here). The judge spoke at the Bar Association's Law Day. Some tickets, and he brought me and another classmate). He added that this country needs ...
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S.A. Law: March 2009
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. I attended the Peacemakers Awards Gala. On Friday, thanks to San Antonio attorney Michael Black of Burns and Black P.L.L.C. His firm paid for a table at the event and one of the attorneys there gave my co-blogger James Rodriguez. Some tickets to the awards banquet, and I tagged along. We shared the table with attorney Ted Lee. Of the intellectual property firm Gun and Lee P.C. Peacemaker Award: San Antonio Food Bank. Statesman...
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S.A. Law: More Trouble for Lawyer in Forgery Case
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Friday, May 15, 2009. More Trouble for Lawyer in Forgery Case. A Waco attorney charged with practicing law while her attorney's license was suspended. And with forging a signature on a court document. Is under scrutiny for possible document tampering in another case. The original sentence called for no probation. On a related note, a McLennan County blogger discusses the circumstances of Polk's attempt to turn herself in. Mack T. Harrison. San Antonio...
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S.A. Law: Piatt's Discrimination Complaint
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A blog for and about the San Antonio legal community. Friday, May 15, 2009. It came out a couple of weeks ago, but in case you haven't seen it,. Has a story on Rosanne Piatt's discrimination complaint. Against St. Mary's university:. A full-time instructor at the San Antonio law school since January 1999, Piatt alleges in a charge of discrimination she filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. And Texas Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division. There's also this letter to the editor.
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