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My Evaluations from the Advanced Criminal-Law Course

| October 16, 2012

High­lights of audi­ence com­ments: • “The ‘Inter­est­ing Legal Ques­tions’ only served to con­fuse me.” (There’s a fine line between inter­est­ing and con­fus­ing; I cross it occa­sion­ally.) • “Pre­sen­ta­tion was well done. What a shame that his ‘biased lib­er­al­ism’ had to be so bla­tant it detracted from an oth­er­wise good dis­cus­sion.” (You stand up and fight […]

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New York City? Get a Rope.

| October 16, 2012

Here is a sam­ple ques­tion from an exam I’m prepar­ing to take on Texas crim­i­nal law. The ques­tion was pro­vided by the authors of the exam: In a jury trial the assis­tant dis­trict attor­ney calls the defense attor­ney to the stand to attempt to estab­lish that the defen­dant vis­ited the attor­ney at a cer­tain time and […]

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X2]">Gurstel Chargo: Welcome to Hell, Merolo and Kulpers [Updated X2]

| October 16, 2012

Min­nesota debt-collection mill Gurs­tel Chargo announces that it has hired two new asso­ciate attor­neys in Scotts­dale, Kather­ine Merolo and Ben­jamin S. Kulpers. I won­der if Merolo and Kulpers know what they’re in for: I am a recent (now past) employee of this law firm. FDCPA vio­la­tions hap­pen on a reg­u­lar basis, and I just wish that […]

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