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Upstart Law School Challenges Old Boys Club

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:06:00 GMT

The Internet-based Legal International Evaluation Society, launched its long-awaited online law school on November 27th amidst little fanfare but significant promise.

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Legal Advice to Mark Cuban: Ferme Ta Geule.

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:00 GMT

Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, like any client that talks to the press, helps himself hurt himself.

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Sisters In Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:50:00 GMT

Not so long ago, those with legal power (men) thought that giving women license to practice law would bharm the "natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex".

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Blogging To Death In The Name of Almighty God

lduhaime@gmail.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:54:00 GMT

In some Muslim countries, law blogging is a hazardous occupation.

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It’s War: British Columbia Lawyers Take on the Judges and the AG

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:40:00 GMT

The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal suggested not just by an elected Attorney General but in the back drop, in black gown and red sash, the sheepish grins of superior court judges.

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The Art Of Trial: Private and Confidential!

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:34:00 GMT

Trial, for the layperson (read "non-lawyer") is a source of tremendous stress and nervousness. You rarely see standing-room only line-ups at the public galleries of the Courthouse. But for lawyers, they are masochistic labours of love; a chunk of time where the stress is through the roof but so, too, is the intensity.

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China Politburo - Take A $%##@!@@ Hike

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:55:00 GMT

A lone student stands-down a row of four communist tanks and still, 19 years later, lawyers and international law experts with far less courage, ... tremble and wait.

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Banning the Use of Hand-Held Cell Phones While Driving

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:08:00 GMT

What is with banning hand-held cell phone use while driving that's so difficult for law-makers? Maybe this will help: The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor has no clothes!

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Birthday Legal Information Ramblings

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:34:00 GMT

It only takes two psychiatrists to lock someone away. Birthday or not, here's enough to find ten.

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Politically-Correct Is Dead! Long Live The Truth!

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:46:00 GMT

We speaketh prematurely but the lovely knoll of ditching political correctness- sweeter sounding still as it rings from the home of the common law - has been heard and struck a beacon of light upon the shadow of law which naively wants to be all things to all cultures.

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Police: Would That Be Cowardice or Stupidity?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:52:00 GMT

British Columbia experiences two shining examples of police inaction - either cowardice or stupidity - in less than nine months.

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Pro Bono Hypocrisy

lduhaime@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:14:00 GMT

Envelope please! (Drum roll.) The award for pro bono works goes to ... John Doe, Esquire and Q.C. ..... because he has the highest rates to his paying clients and he can afford to charade as a poverty avenger!

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End of the World Law

lduhaime@gmail.com — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:42:00 GMT

As we all march to our lemming-like demise upon the cliff of environmental disaster, a path of law back to safety may yet be found.

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Polygamy Now Safely Brewed In British Columbia?

lduhaime@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:07:00 GMT

The Provincial government's top law enforcement officer toys with not prosecuting polygamists and bigamists, anticipating a Charter ass-kicking in Court. If so, law is orphaned and we all suffer.

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European Road Kill

lduhaime@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:47:00 GMT

With sympathies to recovering European traffic victims and their families, and for the hospital food, the solution to your woes is simple. Three words; traffic law enforcement.

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