Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Trimming the Fat from that Budget.

It amazed me as a child to learn that Mohandas Ghandhi (who was a lawyer, by the way) was able to bring the mighty British Empire to its knees by hunger strikes.

The Importance of Being Nobel.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009 There were 205 nominees for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Were there any obvious choices who were passed over? Don’t all speak at once. Okay. Here’s an idea for Literature next year: Salman Rushdie, possibly the greatest living novelist of the English language. CLT

Waterbagging.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle Do NOT try this at home. CLT

Support Your Local What?

Pennsylvania casinos will soon have the full monty. Maybe it couldn’t have be avoided. We seem to have painted ourselves into a corner. But don’t ask us to love it.

That’s just what the commercial said, however. As closely as I can remember, the script ended with the immortal words:

“Support Your Local Casino.”

Give us a break!

Yes, There is a Lawyer Shortage.

Yes, there is a shortage of lawyers who know how to defend a mortgage foreclosure. This is mostly because there is a shortage of money to pay them. The Times recommends public funding of defense efforts or perhaps authorizing legal service lawyers to file class actions. Frankly, neither approach is likely to provide a real solution. Public funding has its limitations and they usually fall short of what is needed to successfully complete the task. Lawyers themselves must provide the solution.

Whining with the Best.

Or, here’s a thought, work for law firms on an a-la-carte basis. You don’t need fancy digs — home offices save clients money, you know. You already have a computer and a large network. Instead of sending out tweets saying “woe is me”, offer a blue light special on whatever it is you know how to do. After all, you are pretty well known, thanks to ATL.

Goodbye to the Maven’s Maven.

When he retired from the New York Times panel of Op Ed contributers, the paper added David Brooks as its nominal conservative. I say “added”, because William Safire could never be replaced. Never.

The Last Symbol.

Professor Robert Langdon, world famous Harvard symbologist, was summoned quite suddenly to Pittsburgh on the eve of the G-20, Summit. The list of protest sites announced in the media had been spooking County Executive Dan Onorato and particularly Mayor Ravenstahl.

Civility in the City of Brotherly Love.

So, to all my brother lawyers who have ever called me a [redacted], an [redacted] or even a [redacted-redacted], either to my face or behind my back, I say:

Et cum spiritu tuo!

Super-Regulator for Banking Institutions?

But there is one overpowering reason why this is a bad idea. The federal associations regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) are in the main much smaller than the national banks under the aegis of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency. One regulator means one style of regulation. Community Banks, especially those with good capital and fewer problem loans, do not need to bear the increased burden that is sure to follow such a change.

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