Lionel, Sawyer and Collins recently announced the hiring of retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice William Maupin.Maupin, who retired as chief justice in January 2009, will reportedly focus on litigation, appellate work and lobbying ... were guessing mostly lobbying.
He was appointed district court judge in Clark County in 1993, and was first elected to the Nevada Supreme Court in 1996.
The Ex-Justice joins former Boyd School of Law Dean Richard Morgan as local heavyweights who have been acquired by the firm.
This ain't government work, Billy ... hope you're ready. Fitting name, as "Bill" will start living his life in 6 minute increments beginning March 15.
(Press Release, Thanks, Tipster!)
LSC bills on the quarter hour, if I'm not mistaken, not every 6 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI know they used to do that, but is that a current practice?
ReplyDeleteLSC keeps packing it on. Every time I see Sam walking - nay, marching - around, I am inspired to imagine myself the same in 80 years.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to his ADR business with Gene Porter?
ReplyDeleteGood for Maupin. He was making pretty good bank doing insurance defense before he took the bench back in the early 1990's. He's spent the better part of two decades earning less as a judge/justice than he would have earned had he stayed in private practice (unless he was somehow on the take, which I doubt).
ReplyDeleteMaupin deserves the opportunity to throw his weight around and make some big money before he retires. My guess is he'll be doing much the same stuff as Richard Bryan does - that is, show up on behalf of firm clients at strategic times to make things happen, attend conferences on behalf of the firm, make rain, etc. The kind of work they do isn't really legal work in the same sense that billing .7 for a status letter to an adjuster is legal work.
Why did Troy post these URLs?
ReplyDeleteGreat for Bill. He is an excellent lawyer.
ReplyDeleteMaupin was an anomaly - a good and successful lawyer, in the prime of his career, who stepped away from private practice to take the bench. That is unheard of here in Nevada.
ReplyDeleteThe typical District Court judge is either unsuccessful, dumb, owned by NTLA, from some other government job, or some combination of the four.
I cannot think of a single judge on the Clark County District Court bench since Maupin who is/was as qualified and who made such a large sacrifice in order to serve as a judge.
Hey 4:14, could you get off your knees, you're embarrassing yourself.
ReplyDelete4:14 is a recent grad trying to get himself into the backdoor of LSC. Leave him alone.
ReplyDeleteMaupin is an excellent attorney/ jurist - but he's still got a lot he can learn from Troy Fox. LSC was a great place for him to land.
ReplyDeleteWell, if LSC doesn't work out - Troy should graciously take Maupin under his wing and show him the ropes.
ReplyDelete4:14 speaks the truth. By and large, Clark County judges are either former DA's who wanted to move up but stay in the state retirement system or lawyers who never made anything of themselves in private practice. For any of you old enough to remember Maupin as a lawyer, he was neither.
ReplyDeleteWho is Troy Fox?
ReplyDeleteTroy Fox = a figment of someone's imagination
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ReplyDeleteIf a reader of this blog knows him, please enlighten us as to why he's become such a punching bag here. My guess, he was an annoying gunner at Boyd.
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Lobbying? Seriously? He wouldn't know the first thing about it.
ReplyDeleteHe's a name to tag on to the letterhead, much like Dick Morgan who works there one day a week.
I don't know what Dick Bryan has made happen at strategic times in years. He does seem to attend conferences on behalf of the firm.
I saw Dick Morgan in the parking lot on his way into the Grant Sawyer State building. He must have had some reason to be here.
ReplyDeleteI had one class with Fox 3 years ago and it was the first time that I'd heard a professor tell someone "Excuse me, if I wanted you to speak yet again I would have called on you."
ReplyDeleteHe would misunderstand a section of UCC-2A, make an incorrect assertion opposing the professor's lecture, and when the professor corrected him, TF would run through 10 different iterations of the hypothetical, each increasingly limited, just so the professor would say "OK, in that VERY limited completely unrealistic situation, Yes, your interpretation could be correct."
Sad really.
Every law school class has a few of those.
ReplyDelete2:57 PM - I cringed a bit.
ReplyDeleteI had the great misfortune of being stuck in the middle of the second row in my first year of law school. I got called on in every class the first week of school. (For example, Paperchase had nothing on me doing hairy hand in contracts for two full classes.) The professors were old-school Socratic Method types. After I survived the first week, I discovered I kind of liked it and so in many classes it was me and the Professor, with classmates happily dozing off or laughing their heads off when I dropped a good one-liner.
Gunner? Never heard that term before. Maybe they called me that behind my back. Oh, mercy! I thought I was one of the cool kids.
@2:57 wrote:
ReplyDelete"OK, in that VERY limited completely unrealistic situation, Yes, your interpretation could be correct"
Uh, how is that different from the normal sort of "correct"?
Still annoying as fuck, I'll grant, but right is right.
4:25
ReplyDeleteYou should cringe. The laughing was not likely with you or at your hilarious "one-liners". No one likes to watch an annoying student and professor go at it for an entire class period. It's a waste of money and time.
On the plus -side, you were probably a high first round pick for the fantasy law school draft at your school. Consider yourself the A-Rod of your class.
is this the infamous "Troy Fox"?
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@ 10:35
ReplyDeleteNo. That is not Troy Fox, whom I do not know. Your picture is of Spencer Judd who was formerly at ASW&A and now has his own practice. To my knowledge Spencer is a highly qualified attorney and was not a "gunner" in school. However, when Spencer spoke, the class listened as he always made intelligent and highly probative comments.
It's "we're," not "were."
ReplyDeleteI was a gunner a few times but I swear I didn't know it was a tranny-Glen Lerner
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