There was far too much lawyer stuff on this weblog yesterday.
Dagosan didn’t even pen any haiku or senryu. Before we get
carried away today with whether or when weblogs constitute
advertising, here are three of my favorites from George Swede:
town dump
two magpies jabber
on an old brass bed
in the old elm’s shade
the black cat opens one eye
sunspot on its tail
used bookstore
a sunset beam lights a row
of forgotten authors
George Swede from Almost Unseen (Brooks Books, 2000)
by dagosan
mid-June midnight
twenty degrees cooler
outside her house
[June 8, 2005]
potluck
Many Massachusetts Bar Advocates have no shame: they are willing to
publically break the antitrust laws, and disrupt the judicial process, in order
to coerce the State to raise their assigned counsel fees. Some of them have
started another per se illegal joint boycott, refusing to take cases of indigents
charged with murder. (see Boston Globe article, June 8, 2005). They’ve been
egging themselves on, at their Yahoo Group website, since April — talking
about taking “summer vacations” again (like last year’s boycotts), with the chant
of “NNC!” (“No New Cases!”). Sadly, the Massachusetts antitrust law does
not apply to regulated professions. However, the Bar Advocate conduct here
clearly falls within FTC v. Superior Court Trial Lawyers Assn. (493 U.S. 411,
1990), and the recent FTC Clark County [WA] Lawyers matter. Indeed, group
boycotts aimed at raising prices are criminal offenses under the Sherman Act. If
the FTC or the Department of Justice do not take action very soon, I hope some
antitrust plaintiffs’ lawyers will take on this case on behalf of the taxpayers of
Massachusetts.
Last year’s boycott got the Bar Advocates a 25% fee hike.
A major Legislative Report, in April, recommended 50% more
over three years. [see post] The Bar Advocates want more, now.
launched it with a letter to the Department of Justice and FTC that praises their
activities in residential real estate industry; advises them of AAI’s new project, to
be headed by AAI Senior Fellow Norman Hawker; questions the linkage of brokerage
commissions to house sale prices; and announces a real estate competition symposium
in the Fall.
Interesting on the bar advocate thing. My housemate, whose twin sister appears in my video, is in the program to try to learn crimlaw and get established; fortunately she met someone who knew someone. It never occurred to me the anti-trust issue. I’ll have to think about that.
Meanwhile, her story my story and other folks’ stories about American Tower and the arguably unethical activities of former Mass. Bar President Richard C. Van Nostrand may be seen here:
Equal Rights for Everybody is Key:
My name is Christopher King, and I totally agree with Attorney Van Nostrand on the point of equal marriage and other rights for homosexuals, for which he and Attorney Renee M. Landers received awards from the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association.
But when it comes to discrimination against a plain-old male n*gg*r, well that’s where we have a problem that you can see in my online video at my website:
http://www.christopherkingesq.com
Actually you can also view the piece in Boston and Cambridge throughout the month of June; just contact BNN and CCTV for run times.
Where I have zealously represented homosexual clients in my practice, and agree that they have a right to be married just as anyone else, Van Nostrand in his practice has:
1. Allowed his client, American Tower Corporation, to destroy sexually-tinged emails from Caucasian Manager Leslie Klaidman toward me, despite me writing him four (4) letters asking for retention — at least one such letter written with the help of well-respected Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Louis A. Jacobs, Esq.,
2. Refused to reconstruct the hard drive or mirror image even after Federal Court Judge Lindsay ORDERED American Tower Corporation to produce emails relevant to me. But Judge Lindsay is Black, so maybe Van Nostrand is just being consistent in his disrespect.
All this, mind you, is interesting because the Department of Labor fined American Tower $300,000.00 for Overtime violations after I sent another fired male n*gg*r there to the Department to issue a Complaint.
All this, mind you happened immediately after former Caucasian American Tower VP Jody Mitchell had the nerve to tell the entire staff that I was a “Dangerous Black Man,” when they fired me 2 hours after I demanded overtime pay, citing statute. She also called the Woburn Police and called me a “scoundrel.”
Interesting, n’est-ce pas?
As such, all I can say is that when you take a stand to be fair and to promote Civil Rights, you do it for everybody, not just for your own pet projects. Van Nostrand’s approach, in my opinion, is hypocritical and stands inimical to the greater Cause of Justice.
Very truly yours,
Christopher King, Esq.
Comment by -c — June 12, 2005 @ 4:23 pm
Interesting on the bar advocate thing. My housemate, whose twin sister appears in my video, is in the program to try to learn crimlaw and get established; fortunately she met someone who knew someone. It never occurred to me the anti-trust issue. I’ll have to think about that.
Meanwhile, her story my story and other folks’ stories about American Tower and the arguably unethical activities of former Mass. Bar President Richard C. Van Nostrand may be seen here:
Equal Rights for Everybody is Key:
My name is Christopher King, and I totally agree with Attorney Van Nostrand on the point of equal marriage and other rights for homosexuals, for which he and Attorney Renee M. Landers received awards from the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association.
But when it comes to discrimination against a plain-old male n*gg*r, well that’s where we have a problem that you can see in my online video at my website:
http://www.christopherkingesq.com
Actually you can also view the piece in Boston and Cambridge throughout the month of June; just contact BNN and CCTV for run times.
Where I have zealously represented homosexual clients in my practice, and agree that they have a right to be married just as anyone else, Van Nostrand in his practice has:
1. Allowed his client, American Tower Corporation, to destroy sexually-tinged emails from Caucasian Manager Leslie Klaidman toward me, despite me writing him four (4) letters asking for retention — at least one such letter written with the help of well-respected Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Louis A. Jacobs, Esq.,
2. Refused to reconstruct the hard drive or mirror image even after Federal Court Judge Lindsay ORDERED American Tower Corporation to produce emails relevant to me. But Judge Lindsay is Black, so maybe Van Nostrand is just being consistent in his disrespect.
All this, mind you, is interesting because the Department of Labor fined American Tower $300,000.00 for Overtime violations after I sent another fired male n*gg*r there to the Department to issue a Complaint.
All this, mind you happened immediately after former Caucasian American Tower VP Jody Mitchell had the nerve to tell the entire staff that I was a “Dangerous Black Man,” when they fired me 2 hours after I demanded overtime pay, citing statute. She also called the Woburn Police and called me a “scoundrel.”
Interesting, n’est-ce pas?
As such, all I can say is that when you take a stand to be fair and to promote Civil Rights, you do it for everybody, not just for your own pet projects. Van Nostrand’s approach, in my opinion, is hypocritical and stands inimical to the greater Cause of Justice.
Very truly yours,
Christopher King, Esq.
Comment by -c — June 12, 2005 @ 4:23 pm