{"id":387,"date":"2006-12-18T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/18\/monday-miscellanea-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:12:54","slug":"monday-miscellanea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/18\/monday-miscellanea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"monday miscellanea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few items discovered over the weekend: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"40\" alt=\"ornamentR\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/ornamentR.jpg\" width=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0(<em>update<\/em>: 1 PM): The <em>New York Times<\/em> real estate section had a useful article yesterday titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/17\/realestate\/17cov.html?_r=1&amp;ei=5124&amp;en=bd945abe784c7ec9&amp;ex=157680000&amp;oref=slogin&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink&amp;pagewanted=all\">How Not to Scare Off Buyers<\/a> (Dec. 17, 2006).\u00a0\u00a0The thematically consistent\u00a0<em>Overlawyered<\/em>.com\u00a0stressed how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2006\/12\/sellers_sabotaging_themselves.html\">&#8220;evil lawyers&#8221; can sabotage deals<\/a>. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Tim Benton, the technology director at the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanmateocourt.org\/\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Superior Court of San Mateo County<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">, California, was awarded the Presiding Judge&#8217;s Service to Justice Award last week.\u00a0 According to the Court&#8217;s Dec. 15th <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanmateocourt.org\/news\/news\/2006\/dec\/Service_to_Justice_Award.pdf\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">press release<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">, Benton is &#8220;best known for his invention and development of &#8220;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezlegalfile.com\/go.jsp?act=actShowHome\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">EZLegalFile<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">,&#8221; an interactive program that assists in filling out forms necessary to request or respond to papers for a variety of legal issues.&#8221;\u00a0 Presiding Judge George A.Miram noted that EZLegalFile covers family law, small claims, domestic violence, and guardianship issues, and has been adopted by 40 counties in California and. &#8220;It helps bring justice into the homes of self-represented litigants through their home computer.&#8221; (see cbs5 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/localwire\/localfsnews\/bcn\/2006\/12\/16\/n\/HeadlineNews\/JUSTICE-AWARD\/resources_bcn_html\">BayCityNews Wire<\/a><\/em>)<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">[<em>update<\/em>: Dec. 19, 2006: see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjonline.com\/stories\/121906\/leg_kline.shtml\">AG&#8217;s Office jumps the gun<\/a>, <em>C-JOnline<\/em>, which explains that there is no final Supreme Court\u00a0order yet, but merely the findings of\u00a0one judge, which may be challenged by respondents before final action.] The Kansas Supreme Court declared on Friday that &#8220;three Topekans and their associates at Pro Se Advocates were involved in unauthorized practice of law.&#8221; (<em>The Capital-Journal<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjonline.com\/stories\/121606\/loc_fines.shtml\">Topekans fined $5,000 for unauthorized practice of law<\/a>, &#8221;\u00a0Dec. 16, 2006) According to the Kansas Attorney General, the investigation of David Martin Price, Rosemary D. Price, Janice King and Pro Se Advocates began earlier this year in response to concerns from Kansas judges.\u00a0 The respondents &#8220;collected money to write legal arguments that were filed in Kansas courts by others,&#8221;\u00a0a practice that\u00a0also\u00a0violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.\u00a0 They were ordered to cease and desist, to make restitution, and to pay fines and expesnses to the AG&#8217;s office.\u00a0<font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"40\" alt=\"ornamentG\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/ornamentG.jpg\" width=\"25\" \/>\u00a0Having recently pointed our readers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/27\/not-adverse-to-poetic-legal-guides\/\">to verse reditions<\/a> of various statutory schemes, we&#8217;d be remiss if we missed the chance to tell you about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcba.org\/scriptcontent\/KCBA\/barbulletin\/1106\/article7.cfm\"><em>The School of Rock: Learn Criminal Law by Listening to the Radio<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, <font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">by U. 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