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As a law Librarian, I deal in problems and am a purveyor of solutions.  If you've got a problem, I know where you can go to solve it.   Small claims? I know four resources that can help you. Bankruptcy?  Pick your chapter and I've got answers. RICO, unlawful detainer, criminal, appeals (civil OR criminal), military justice, estate planning, family law, tax, federal, UCC, real property (commercial or otherwise), contracts, personal injury.  Whatever you need, answers I've got. So, the other day, a newly minted attorney came into my law library hoping I was all I was hyped up to be.  Turns out he had just accepted a rather messy case.  I mean, it was one of those cases that if he won, it would put him on the map.  If he lost, well.... So, being newly minted and not knowing the ways of the legal world, I introduced him to the world of Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) and showed him all the great things they offered like: California Civil Discovery Practice (CE

The wife's birthday is coming up and I'm thinking that maybe we head off to Las Vegas to take in a show, have a fun buffet dinner, do a little sightseeing, some nookie...  It's all good. So, I'm logging onto the website to book a room.  I find a FANTASTIC deal at a posh resort.  I click accept, accept, accept, got to the page that added all the fees annnnnnnnnnnd when I found out that with the added fees and taxes that the fantastic deal at the posh resort wasn't as fantastic as I thought.  In fact, the added fees darn near  doubled the initial price. Yeah, thanks but no thanks.  Dang but I don't know how Vegas stays in business  what with all the bait and switches going on. Imagine if something like this happened in the legal realm.  Take, for example, the lawyer who came into my library the other day.  He had been working to settle a long standing breach of contract case.   Opposing counsel had originally sent an offer of settlement , lawy

Funny how some people think they're gonna outwit the system and never get caught. Funnier still are the people that come into my library and then tell me what they're doing (or are planning to do). Such was the case with one enterprising young man who walked up to me the other day.   Seems Young Man had been working for himself for the last few years and, for one reason or another, forgotten to pay his taxes.   Oopsy. That's "oopsy" as in that's something that would kinda freak me out.  Young Man, on the other hand, is being a bit ballsy and braggy about being about to fly under the radar. Being a man of business, though, Young Man is getting kinda skittish about the whole thing and thinks (out loud) that maybe if he racks up a bunch of debt and then files bankruptcy that he'll be able to get around the tax liability thing.   When I start to mention how Willie Nelson tried to pull that , he cut me off and  wanted to bone up on things bankrup

About 40 percent of the time, the kind of people that come into my law library are the kind of people that have ZERO legal experience.   Zip, nada, nothing, not a clue what to do.   The one good thing they did was walk in my law library because I actually do know what I'm doing. For instance, the other day I had a youngish lady come into my library.  Not a clue what to do, she was told to go to the law library.   She tells me that she had filed suit in state court. Defendant promptly filed a motion to remove to Federal court and claimed that Lady had not properly served defendant, that the case should have been filed in Federal court, and that plaintiff didn't know what she was doing. Well, they got one out of three right.   Anyway, I ask lady if she read the motion.  "No," she replied.  Did you read any of the codes cited in the motion, I asked? "No," she replied.   Did you properly serve the defendant? "Yes," she replied.  W

Hopefully you have not but maybe you have been in embroiled in a legal case.  Maybe in the course of litigation, a witness was on the stand saying things that you, and everyone around them, knew they were lying (well, everyone except the judge). Such was the case with a person who came into my library the other day.   Seems lady was in the middle of her divorce case.  Soon-to-be-ex husband gets up on the stand and starts to spew falsehood after falsehood about the value of their once joint company.   She is sitting in her chair absolutely dumbfounded and could not believe her ears.  Good thing that his testimony was at the end of the day and the judge called for a recess until 10:00AM the following day. Lady is standing in front of me asking how is it possible that he can lie like that?  Of course, this brings us to our word of the month: PERJURE .  According to Black's Law Dictionary, PERJURE means: To make (oneself) culpable of deliberately making materials fa