Signs of the Times.
Kiplinger Magazine rates the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the best academic value for the tuition dollar. Other Southern State Universities have high rankings, too. Low tuition is only part of the equation. The article says, inter alia, that UNC has been a leader in finding innovative was to improve efficiency.
Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk is 235th most visited law blog
Avvo informed us that Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk is currently the 235th most visited on its list of Top Legal Blogs. This is based upon the rankings by Alexa, the Web Information Company. On February 12, 2009, Alexa gave PLBT a traffic rating of 3,276,329. That means that there are 3,276, 328 sites with more traffic. No. 1 rank by Alexa is Yahoo.com, No. 2 is Google, No. 3 is You Tube.
One Person . . . One of a Kind . . . a Force.
April Charney specializes in the rare legal field of mortgage foreclosure defense. Mortgage foreclosure has long been considered an area of the law where there is no defense. The law in this field has been summarized to millions of new borrowers by millions of mortgage loan closers in four words: “You pay, you stay!” But never underestimate an ingenious lawyer and Ms. Charney is one.
She has been a driving force in the development of various defenses that have, at least for the present, been giving fits to lawyers for the mortgage securitization industry. Lawyers, judges, regulators and finally legislators are starting to see old issues in a new light. Through seminars, consumer organizations and the internet, Ms Charney has shared these emerging ideas with other lawyers around the country.
In Harm’s Way: the not-so-nice side of internet advertising.
However, if you went to the Obama pages, at least during the campaign, you would have discovered a McCain campaign ad on the right hand side of the page. However, the ad doesn’t say positive things about McCain, it contains negative comments about Obama. Yes, they call them “attack ads.”
Landlord and Tenant: Security Deposit Trap
Posted by Cliff Tuttle
So you’re eighteen at last and moving into your first apartment with a few friends. There’s rent and a security deposit to pay. You don’t have much money, but no problem. Everybody pays their share.
Then someday, you move on.
About a month ago, I answered a question involving [...]
PLBT Guest Post on the AVVO Blog
Posted by Cliff Tuttle
AVVO is a web site that ranks lawyers based on experience, public recognition and ethics. Although many lawyers reacted negatively to being scored like a hotel or restaurant, most of them got over it. Part of the success of AVVO, as it expands toward the goal of rating lawyers in 50 [...]