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The Cardinal Lawyer: The economic impact of the University of Louisville

Posted on February 27, 2009

Faculty Blogs: A Forgotten Dean? Thomas R. Gordon

Posted on February 26, 2009
As many know, the current University of Louisville has absorbed the history, alumni and traditions of the many Louisville institutions that it merged with over the years.  Among these institutions was the Jefferson School of Law, which was founded in 1905 to provide legal education at night and weekends to working-class Louisvillians...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: A conversation with Brandeis

Posted on February 26, 2009
Going through the collection this week, I stumbled upon a small gem I hadn’t seen before.  It’s a typed transcription of a conversation held between Brandeis, his wife Alice, British economist Redvers Opie, and one of Brandeis’ nieces, presumably Fannie (who typed the transcription...

Faculty Blogs: Obama Commerce Secretary, 3.0: Another Lawyer, Perhaps?

Posted on February 23, 2009
I hesitate to write on yet another possible commerce secretary, but CNN is reporting that President Obama is planning to appoint yet another lawyer to the post, former Washington Governor Gary Locke, a 1975 graduate of the Boston University School of Law...

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Faculty Blogs: More about Issue Statements

Posted on February 23, 2009
          The lawyers' issue statements in my study of recent briefs were written in several formats.         Most individual issues consisted of a single "sentence." These appeared in three basic formats:            1.  The interrogative format...

Faculty Blogs: Nursing School Talk

Posted on February 23, 2009
Today I spoke to the Mental Health Nursing class at the School of Nursing of the University of Louisville.  The talk was very well-received by roughly 80 nursing students.  This was my twentieth program since I first spoke at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California last March.

Faculty Blogs: "Blogging While Publicly Employed"

Posted on February 20, 2009
  I enjoyed spending the day at the Louisville Law Review Symposium on Free Speech and the Challenge of Advancing Technology.  The speakers were great and raised a range of timely and important topics.  One presentation would be of particular interest to those who practice labor and employment law...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Other Consumer Financial Transactions

Posted on February 20, 2009
At the University of Memphis Symposium, a panel on consumer financial transactions addressed a number of issues, including how consumer issues are related to crisis containment and general regulatory reforms. The panel was moderated by Professor Adam Feibelman, University of North Carolina School of Law...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Keynote Speech by John Dearie of Financial Services Forum

Posted on February 20, 2009
Over at University of Memphis' Symposium on Financial Services Reform, John Dearie of the Financial Services Forum gave the keynote speech. Mr. Dearie agreed with earlier presenters that we must first decide what is to be regulated and, second, determine what is the point of regulation...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: University of Memphis Symposium on Financial Services Reform

Posted on February 19, 2009
Today I am at the University of Memphis Symposium on Financial Services Reform. One of the early speakers was Professor Saule Omarova, from University of North Carolina School of Law. Her paper, co-authored with Professor Adam Feibelman, also from UNC, "Risks, Rules and Institutions" takes up the Treasury Blueprint's proposals for reforming our regulatory structure...

Faculty Blogs: Please Support or Attend the Annual Charity Auction

Posted on February 19, 2009
The Student Bar Foundation will host its Annual Charity Auction on March 11th, 2009 from 5:00-8:00. We will have a live and silent auction, drinks, entertainment and hors d'oeuvres to raise money for legal, public service fellowships. We are currently soliciting donations and would love to have your donated items or in kind donations (dinner with a Professor, law books, hornbooks, etc...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: New Rules Proposed For Debit Cards

Posted on February 17, 2009
In a temporary break from all the financial crisis, how about an update on overdraft fees charged by banks on debit card transactions (See Citizens Bank - Not Your Typical Bank, But Typical Overdraft Fees Apply)? According to the Consumer Federation of America, the average national overdraft fee on at the top ten banks is $34...

Faculty Blogs: Clinic Update: We've Got Clients

Posted on February 16, 2009
Things at the clinic are moving along. This semester the clinic is working with the Legal Aid Society in representing Legal Aid clients in eviction cases. All of the clinic students have had matters to work on, and most of them have been to district court on a forcible detainer case...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Tax Break for Auto Purchases

Posted on February 13, 2009
The proposed stimulus plan includes some incentives for new car purchases by giving a tax deduction for the sales and excise taxes on the vehicle as an above-the -line deduction (Stimulus: How It May Affect Your Wallet). There is a phase out for those making more than $75,000 per year ($150,000 for dual income couples)...

Faculty Blogs: More Guidelines for Writing Issue Statements

Posted on February 12, 2009
  Here are two more guidelines based on my review of issue statements from lawyers' briefs:3.  Unless the question is purely one of law or court rules direct otherwise, it is effective to include some legally relevant facts to put the issue in context, as in this example:            Whether the United States satisfied the notice requirements of the Due Process Clause by sending a federal prisoner notice of an administrative forfeiture proceeding by certified mail addressed to the prisoner at the prison where he was incarcerated...

Faculty Blogs: Legal Writing Tip - Write and Edit Just a Little Bit

Posted on February 11, 2009
To those interested in improving their writing, Bryan Garner recommends not only just a little bit of reading but also just a little bit of writing and just a little bit of editing.  Two of his especially innovative and useful ideas are to keep a daily journal and to form a writing group...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Bernanke Testifies on Federal Reserve Programs

Posted on February 10, 2009
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, testified today before the House Financial Services Committee about the Federal Reserve's emergency assistance to the financial markets. Stressing the difficulties to policy makers around the world, Bernanke warned in his opening statement that "[a]lthough the provision of ample liquidity by the central bank to financial institutions is a time-tested approach to reducing financial strains, it is no panacea...

Faculty Blogs: RALE 1.2: Alan Page, Tackling the Big Cases

Posted on February 08, 2009
With the ProBowl underway it is appropriate to post a 1978 trading-card for Hall of Fame defensive tackle Alan Page. Page is (with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron ?Whizzer? White) perhaps one of the two great ?two-sport? (football and law) players to ride a judicial bench...

Faculty Blogs: Repository of American Legal Ephemera, vol. 1., no.1.

Posted on February 05, 2009
This is the first issue of an occasional feature I call the Repository of American Legal Ephemera, where I?ll pull an item from my motley of legally oriented artifacts, mostly printed but once and a while something more three-dimensional, and show it along with a few sentences (or more) about its context...

Faculty Blogs: Guidelines for Writing Issue Statements

Posted on February 04, 2009
  Recently, I examined issue statements (sometimes called "Questions Presented") in briefs filed in six states' highest courts.  I found that lawyers use a variety of formats for writing them.  For example, some follow the traditional guideline to express each issue in a single sentence, while others write multi-sentence issue statements...

Faculty Blogs: Judd Gregg, a L.L.M. in Tax, Named to Obama Cabinet; Hope His Taxes Are in Order

Posted on February 03, 2009
The watch for lawyers in the Obama administration appears to never end.  Just when I'm ready to post that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.),who received his J.D. in 1972 and a L.L.M. in tax law in 1975 from Boston University Law School, has accepted an nomination as Secretary of Commerce, former Sen...

Faculty Blogs: CIT Training Talk

Posted on February 03, 2009
Today I spoke to the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department's newest Crisis Intervention Team training class about how those with severe mental illness can be successful professionals.  The very important CIT program which NAMI Louisville helps present teaches police officers how to deal with those with mental illess so that hospitalization rather than incarceration occurs, and potentially violent confrontations are deescalated to avoid tragic results...

Jennifer Martin's Blog: Problems for Secondary Lenders?

Posted on February 03, 2009
I received a call today asking whether a local company in Louisville should be worried that its secondary lender on its real estate filed a lawsuit to foreclosure due to default. In some ways an odd question, but perhaps not. Imagine this, Company X owns real property worth $750,000 at the time of financing...

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