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841.
by rprasad 15y ago
Diplomatic community does not extend to foreign legislators. It covers only those who are official diplomats of a foreign country (or those accorded derivative rights, such as immediate family of diplomats). Note that the right applies to
842.
by rprasad 15y ago
Most of the people who died from tornados over the past few months knew the tornados were headed their way or were in the vicinity. The problem was that they were unable to leave their homes in time because the tornado touched down too c
843.
by rprasad 15y ago
It's not about being realistic, it's about finding out what sort of information Google retains about its users. Low-profile cases are the best times to test these sorts of fishing expeditions because attention and resistance to teh subpoen
844.
by rprasad 15y ago
Cost-benefit analysis: spend a few hours trying to translate a raw flash dump into a readable format (in addition to the normal forensic work of looking at the phone's drive's contents), or spend <1hr to see whether a pro forma subpoena
845.
by rprasad 15y ago
Because then the phone is no longer in the original state as when the defendant turned it over, and the FBI cannot prove it did not alter the contents of the phone (as images cannot be made while the phone is locked).
846.
by rprasad 15y ago
Guys, it sounds like he worked for Google China. I don't know how tech works between different Google entities (as I don't/never have worked for Google), but its possible that Google China wasn't using the same system as Google US at the t
847.
by rprasad 15y ago
Silicon Valley's tech barons are not even remotely close to the robber barons of the Industrial Era.
848.
by rprasad 15y ago
Small claims courts will not handle intercompany disputes. They are intended for small disputes between individuals.
849.
by rprasad 15y ago
My high school AP English teacher deducted a full 1% from presentation assignments for every "um" and "like" (except where the use of "like" was contextually appropriate). Nobody got higher than a D on the first presentation. Nobody got lo
850.
by rprasad 15y ago
More concerned about outing the people I work with, since many of them still work there.
851.
by rprasad 15y ago
Well, for starters, sharing copyrighted material at the level you are suggesting carries a minor fine. Generally, all the court would do is levy penalties on your failure to pay said fine and then issue a court order docking your wages. Al
852.
by rprasad 15y ago
The hypothesis is generally incorrect. A jam at the appeals level has little-to-no effect on the capacity of lower-level courts. Appeals courts are designed to sift through the masses of cases they receive to pronounce judgement on the luc
853.
by rprasad 15y ago
The punishment for theft historically was (1) execution, (2) then whipping, the stockades, or some other physical abuse, and (3) more recently, imprisonment. Consequently, in the historical scheme of things, imprisonment is considered human
854.
by rprasad 15y ago
Let's just say that he was the D.A. of a large, conservative county which is more commonly known for being the epicenter of the housing meltdown.
855.
by rprasad 15y ago
Most clients choose not to go to trial, despite their court-appointed lawyer's advice to take it to trial. In SoCal, only about 1 out of every 100 (or more) criminal cases actually goes to trial because the defendants choose not to asser
856.
by rprasad 15y ago
I worked for the Public Defender during an election year. The local D.A. was trying to divert attention from a sex scandal and instructed the ADAs not to negotiate down on any crimes so that he could "look tough" on crime. The thinking wa
857.
by rprasad 15y ago
Let them know that they misrepresented their requirements in their request for bids, and halt further work until they renegotiate the contract at an hourly rate. If the 50% milestone is the GUI, make sure your GUI satisfies the requirement
858.
by rprasad 15y ago
Here's how it works: I know the law of Australia, Hong Kong, China, and the U.S. However, I only advise clients about U.S. law. Why? Because I'm liable for malpractice if I get it wrong. Unless I'm willing to religiously follow the legal
859.
by rprasad 15y ago
As with coding sweatshops, the outsourced legal sweatshops really are an example of getting even less than you paid for.
860.
by rprasad 15y ago
The irony is that BigLaw was the disruption -- the standard legal model until the 1960s was to have small, local firms. What we think of today as mid-tier firms would have been considered behemoths in those days.
861.
by rprasad 15y ago
You mean like Lexis, Westlaw, LoisLaw, LegalZoom, and RocketLawyer have been doing for the past decade or so? The problem is that at some point, you're paying a premium for a lawyer's skill in knowing what to do and for taking on the risk o
862.
by rprasad 15y ago
This will not happen, and it is a poor avenue for "disruption". There are plenty of good lawyers from middle tier firms, solo outfits, and boutique (i.e., specialty) firms. These practitioners already service the vast majority of people ne
863.
by rprasad 15y ago
Re: 1) Because it is difficult to tell whether your lawyer did a bad job or whether you just had a bad case, branding and signaling becomes tremendously important. It is that branding and signaling that makes companies keep going to firms
864.
by rprasad 15y ago
Small claims courts are not much different from arbitration. There are no consequences to not showing up or participating, as losing simply means that you can move the matter to a new (i.e., independent) case in a real courtroom with a rea
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by rprasad 15y ago
Fun fact: in California and New York, you are legally required to inform the new owner that the fan was not installed by a licensed electrician if the installation involved any more electrical work than simply plugging it into an outlet. Yo
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by rprasad 15y ago
Associates are lawyers. The difference between an associate and a partner is the same as the difference between an employee and a founder in a startup: the employee gets paid a salary, the founder might get a salary but primarily draws his
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by rprasad 15y ago
You're not paying a lawyer $X00/hour to do word processing; you're paying them to figure out what laws apply to your situation, how those laws apply, and the best course of action given the legal consequences. If they're doing word processi
868.
by rprasad 15y ago
Litigated documents are generally a good example of what not to do, but are a poor example of best practices. That is generally how budding lawyers are trained in law school, and consequently the reason most legal documents are unnecessa
869.
by rprasad 15y ago
Such things exist -- they are called legal treatises. For laymen, the equivalent would be books like the Nolo series.
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by rprasad 15y ago
Almost all states' bar associations have public profiles indicating the license statuses of their lawyers. California, for example, requires a public email address -- verification can be accomplished by sending a Docracy verification email

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