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Give Your Charitable Dollars Locally

2015-11-27T00:00:03-08:00November 27, 2015|

Overview:  This week's Law Review is installment three of our Estate Planning for Dummies series, collect all five and send them to your family and friends.  15 minutes may save you a lot more than 15%. “WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET; WE ...

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Estate Planning 101 B

2015-11-20T00:00:04-08:00November 20, 2015|

Overview:  ‘Everything is handled, nothing to worry about’ is our parent’s common reply when the kids ask if the family estate planning is taken care of. Don’t you believe it, chances are nothing is taken care of.  Find out what you can do in the ...

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Estate Planning 101– Lesson One (Of Five)

2015-11-13T00:00:30-08:00November 13, 2015|

Overview:  This week's Law Review column is the first installment of a five-part series on Estate Planning, beginning with how the family should approach their parents to ask Mom and Pop if they have an estate plan; chances are they will say 'yes' when their ...

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Holy Copyright Law, Batman! KAPOW!

2015-11-06T00:00:40-08:00November 6, 2015|

Overview:  Holy Copyright Law, Batman!  So starts the Ninth District Court of Appeal's opinion in DC Comics v. Mark Towle; seems Towle made and sold replica Batmobiles in his 'Gotham Garage' with no authorization from the Batman copyright holder, so if you are a Batman ...

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More 2015 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Results

2015-10-30T00:00:44-07:00October 30, 2015|

Overview:  This week's Law Review showcases again the 2015 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest where writers submit samples of bad writing, opening paragraphs of imaginary novels, and if you like funny awkward writing, a specialty of mine, you will love this. The Bulwer-Lytton contest ...

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2015 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Results

2015-10-23T00:00:17-07:00October 23, 2015|

Overview:  This week's Law Review features clever writing of contestants of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, complicated and awkward first paragraphs of make believe novels; always worth a few laughs, and a break from our normal boring legaleze. The Bulwer-Lytton contest challenges entrants to compose bad ...

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Make a Will, But do it Right!

2015-10-09T00:00:02-07:00October 9, 2015|

Overview:  Where there is a will, there is a way, so when Irving Duke hand wrote his holographic will and did not provide for his younger wife dying before he did, it set off a lawsuit that went all the way to the California Supreme ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Goes Crazy Protecting Free Speech

2015-10-02T00:00:44-07:00October 2, 2015|

Overview:  The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled Gilbert Arizona's sign ordinance unconstitutional writing that temporary signs and political signs and ideological signs, whatever that is, must be treated the same, same standards, otherwise they violate free speech, a stretch of an Opinion seems to me, ...

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