Anonymous Law Student

No legal action yet, but you can bet political careers are about to end, and the CRTC, Canada’s telecommunications department, will lose in the latest attempt by the telecommunications oligopoly in Canada.

Because people are starting to rent less DVDs, watch less TV, and increasing their bandwidth use to watch online movies, TV, youtubes, the big companies want their billions in revenue through a different means. Read the rest of this entry »

Seems as though the rules have changed if you’re a nerd in Idaho. The number of schools who can participate in a program that will permit students who graduate early access to scholarships. before there was a cap on the number of schools that could participate per district. Because the low number of participating schools lawmakers have eliminated that rule. So you can now, if you have smart students in your school, participate in a program that will permit advanced students a chance to get a chunk of change for their college years.

No word on how many schools have these types of studious teens….

Coming up to a newstand near you will be the heated debate on data.

You know the stuff, data in your cell phone, bandwidth for your internet.

There are two major issues coming to the forefront.

The first has to do with erroneous billing practices by ATT . Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/01/police-watch-sex-trafficking-ahead-super-bowl/

It seems there are groups who are out and about raising awareness against the expected influx of sex tourism amidst the Super Bowl festivities. We agree, sex trafficking is heinous (we make a distinction between this and legitimate sex work (in their respective states). However, does the data actually indicate that sex trafficiking increases during major events? Read the rest of this entry »

Soft tissue damage is usually unseen. That means to people around you your injuries seem like phantom boo-boos, but in reality you’re in real pain. Family, friends, and other loved ones need to show empathy to those with soft tissue damage as these injuries do not come with broken bones or prolonged bruising.

You may slowly find yourself doing less and less around the house because your injuries are getting worse and worse. To those around you it may seem as if you’re physically fine on the outside and are just getting lazy! Remember, just because it can’ tbe seen doesn’t mean you aren’t hurt!

If you’ve ever been injured in an accident such as a motor vehicle, then you may be seeking compensation for damages. Damages to your car is one thing, but to your body is quite another. Soft tissue damage is unseen (another blog post) and can be a prolonged injury.

Some believe keeping an injury diary is a good way to keep track of the increasing severity of their injury overtime. This may sound like a good idea at the outset, but it turns out to work against the injured. Here’s why. Read the rest of this entry »

We all have to get insurance if we do certain things like drive. Other forms of insurance are ways of mitigating risk, like life insurance or home insurance.

To complicate matters there are a variety of forms of insurance one can purchase to protect the same thing. Life insurance has ‘term insurance’ or the much maligned ‘universal life‘, but there thousands of iterations.

But what happens if you need to make a claim? Read the rest of this entry »

For most people facing DUI charges, their DUI arrest was unexpected. No matter if you were at the bar with your friends or simply having a few beers at home, at some point you made the choice to drive a car and now you’ve been arrested. Depending on the city you are charged in, penalties may vary, but in San Diego, DUI charges will be very strict, and if you are in fact charged with a DUI, you definitely have a lot of turmoil headed your way. Only an experienced San Diego DUI attorney can help you in this type of situation. A DUI attorney has a solid understanding of the court system, knows loop holes in the law, and possible ways to get potentially harmful testimony or evidence tossed out of court. Read the rest of this entry »

Law is a funny business. When you apply to go to law school you honestly get the whole kit and kaboodle. Any tool, clown, and wise ass can apply and succeed in graduating. Of course, this leaves a massive range of expertise when it comes to lawyers. Some have wimpy liberal arts degrees that are only revealed as the mysterious “BA”. Others are legitimate (well maybe not legit, but a bit more interesting than philosophy or English Lit). I’m talking about the difference between the economist, the finance major, or the health sciences grad–not wait, scratch the last one. Read the rest of this entry »

When you go around searching for legal assistance do your search for ‘lawyer’ or ‘attorney’? I tested this to see if there was a preference. I would think that people would search ‘lawyer’ more often than attorney. I don’t know why I would assume that, seems to be easier to say, we see it more in the media, and so on….. I checked it out in a quick test on Google Trends and found that, simply in terms of trending words, ‘attorney’ is searched far more than ‘lawyer’. Read the rest of this entry »