Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Holscher's Hub: Boyce MotoMeter
Holscher's Hub: Images of flight
Thanks, but no thanks, and oh, why even bother. Wyoming rolls over on the UBE.
Lex Anteinternet: Wyoming Adopts the Uniform Bar Exam, and why that'...: Wyoming Supreme Court in Cheyenne. Students of legal minutia know that the phrase "to pass the bar", or "to be ca...
The Board of Law Examiners, by the way, dumped the CLE requirement as it was ineffective. That should have been self evident from the get go, as it was quite evident to me, as one of the drafters of a section of it, that the time element of it was so short as to be nonsensical. There was no way that anyone was going to learn much in that sort of CLE, and there was no test as a part of it. It was just something a person had to endure.
In its place, the BLE is going to expand the Pathways to Professionalism, a mandatory professionalism course which will be expanded. Well, quite frankly, programs on professionalism do not enhance professionalism one iota.
In making this decision, according to the article I read, the BLE was conceding that the law of most states is all the same, and a person can just look it up on the Internet. Oh really. Well, that's baloney, and anyone who has had the experience of out of state lawyers practicing in a complicated Wyoming case knows better. Of course, if we persist in this path, it will become very similar to Colorado's law, as that's where the majority of out of state "Wyoming" practitioners live.
Indeed, recently I was in a case which had one such practitioner on the defense side and two out of state lawyers on the plaintiff's side. The lawyer on the defense side had a practice heavily based on out of state work, and he commented that "he couldn't believe" that Wyoming allowed such simple CLE admission and that he'd think that Wyoming lawyers would resent it. So, something that's pretty self evident to out of state lawyers practicing in the state apparently isn't to those who are supposed to be manning the gate here.
Wyoming has a lot of really good lawyers, still. And we have a law school, still. We can craft a Wyoming component and test those who wish to practice here on Wyoming's law. We should.
If we don't, our current pathway will have a logical development. Within a decade nearly all serious litigation will be handled by out of state lawyers, and Wyoming's lawyers will reduce in number and be reduced to minor matters and criminal matters. The judges will start to come from out of state too, and our law will start to resemble Colorado's, whether we want it to or not. The law school of which so many Wyoming lawyers are graduates, will go by the end of the next decade, as the uniqueness of Wyoming's law will decline, and there will be no reason to have an institution that serves no state specific purpose.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Monday, June 28, 1915. Huerta busted, Recreation vital.
Last edition:
Sunday, June 27, 1915. Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate: All-Time Record High Temperature Anniversary. Huerta and Orozco prevented from entering Mexico.
Churches of the West: First Baptist Church, Salt Lake City Utah
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Lost Rail: The Past
Sunday, June 27, 1915. Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate: All-Time Record High Temperature Anniversary. Huerta and Orozco prevented from entering Mexico.
Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate: All-Time Record High Temperature Anniversary: 100 year anniversaries don't come around very often. This is one of those rare exceptions. You see, 100 years ago, June 27, 1915, the...
From Deep Cold.
I wonder if that record was just broken?
State Department agent Zach Cobb directed federal agents and soldiers to apprehend General Victoriano Huerta and Pascual Orozco just before they could leave the United States and enter Mexico to kindle a German-funded uprising in the country which already was engaged in a civil war.
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Saturday, June 26, 1915. Burn. Destroy. Kill.
Old Picture of the Day: Cleburne Texas
Friday, June 26, 2015
Saturday, June 26, 1915. Burn. Destroy. Kill.
Venezuelan soldier of fortune Rafael de Nogales Méndez, serving with the Ottoman Empire, met with Mehmed Reshid, Governor of the Diyarbekir province, and learned the governor had received telegraphs directly from Interior Minister Talaat Pasha with orders to "Burn-Destroy-Kill" all Armenians in the area.
Georgia Governor John M. Slaton and his wife Sarah Frances Grant left the state under escort of the National Guard after a mob angered by his decision to commute Leo Frank's sentence to life imprisonment threatened them at their home in Atlanta.
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Thursday, June 24, 1915. Advancing on Mexico City.
Friday Farming: Finland, 1899
Quite the scene, from the then very agrarian country (which was part of the Russian Empire at the time this photo was taken. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Friday Farming. The basic unit.
"Forty acres and a mule". The basic agrarian unit in the American east in the 19th Century, and hence the unit that freed slaves were hoping to obtain, with the basic animal necessary to work the same.
"Three acres and a cow." The basic agrarian unit in the United Kingdom in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, and hence the slogan of land reformers and Distributists.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Today In Wyoming's History: After Appomattox. The Civil War's impact on Wyomi...
Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming in the Civil War: I posted this item on our other blog, Lex Anteinternet, very recently for a variety of reasons: Lex Anteinternet: The Stars and Bars as ...
again is a very significant one we've heretofore overlooked.
Redrawing the battle lines to fit modern sensibilities, and thereby doing violence to history.
Speaking of mounted troops (chivalry) another odd one has been the modern tendency to view all native combatants as committed against the United States in the 18th and 19th Century, or even against all European Americans. Many Indians view things this way themselves, but it doesn't reflect the complicated reality. Many tribes allied themselves with European Americans in various instances, sometime temporarily and sometimes not so. In the West an interesting example of this is the Shoshone, who were allies of the United States and who contributed combatants to campaigns of the 1870s. In recent years I've occasionally seen it claimed that the Shoshone were amongst the tribes that fought at Little Big Horn, in the Sioux camp. It's not impossible that some were there, but by and large the big Shoshone story for the 1876 campaign was the detail contributed to Crook's command against the Sioux. I'll note I'm not criticizing them for this, only noting it.
Thursday, June 24, 1915. Advancing on Mexico City.
Zapatistas are thrown back. Gen. Garza resumed his march on Mexico City.
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Wednesday June 23, 1915. Fighting south of Mexico City, and in the Alps.
Mid Week At Work: Whaling
Old Picture of the Day: Processing Whale
Old Picture of the Day: Whale Hunt
Old Picture of the Day: Whaling
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming in the Civil War
Lex Anteinternet: The Stars and Bars as viewed from outside the Sout...:As everyone is well aware, there's been a controversy over the Confederate battle flag, the Stars and Bars, brought about by the recent
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The rest can be read on our post on the Today In Wyoming's History blog.