Advice for Lindsay Lohan.

Number 470 Your strategy is not working. Hold a press conference before you go into the slammer and announce that you have decided to grow up and get off drugs. Then serve your time with dignity and no complaints. Get rid of the nail polish. CLT

Advice for LeBron.

Number 469 So LeBron James has had a lot of fun watching all of his competitors fall all over each other trying to induce him to play with a ball and hoop in their City. Now he must make a choice. Or does he? Why should the great LeBron James work for any of them […]

Read the Complaint and Brief on DOJ Suit Against Arizona Immigration Law.

The Department of Justice filed a Complaint and Brief in a suit to overturn the controversial Arizona Immigration Law. You can read the Complaint and Brief by clicking this link to Jurist, the University of Pittsburgh web site that covers legal events around the globe. Talk show callers never mention the preemption doctrine, which, of course, this case is all about.

Second Anniversary of Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk!

On July 7, 2008 the first post on Pittsburgh Legal Back Talk appeared. You can read it by clicking “About PLBT” in the left margin. Now, approaching 500 posts, I think this blog has proven that it it has the stuff to last.

The Original Article.

Nobody could have known that the Great American Revolution and its Declaration would be the original in a world-wide cascade of events that are continuing even now. But Independence was never the end of the process, only the beginning. In America and the world, over generations, independence has been continuously redefined, re-enacted, expanded and refined in subsequent generations. And that makes it not just the achievement of the Founding Fathers, but the achievement of all of us.

A Life Well Lived: Lisa Styles, mother, lawyer and far too young.

Mt. Lebanon resident and lawyer Bill Labovitz posted an article on the vigil conducted at the fatal intersection last night as well as her obituary on Twitter. They tell a story that brings the full force of this calamity down upon us. They make me feel angry. And yet, when I think that my own daughter, married and living in another city, is only a little younger than Lisa, it makes me feel blessed and grateful for what I have. We must savor and treasure the gifts we have while we have them. The fact that the people we love can be snatched away in a moment is what makes having them with us so precious.

GOT RATS?

No. 464 If you are a residential tenant and have rats, read my AVVO Answer today. CLT

Closing Deadline To Be Extended

The closing deadline to qualify for the tax credit for first time buyer transactions was set to expire on June 30. However the Senate passed an extension, already passed by the House, to September 30. The measure is expected to be signed by the President as early as today.

RESPA: Both Feet in the Tar Baby.

HUD has just issued another interpretive ruling on RESPA kickback rules. A real estate agent cannot accept compensation for “marketing” home warranties, but she can be paid for real services, like performing preliminary inspections.

Report from the Line: Recording a Deed in 2010.

No. 461 Who was it who said, “the faster I go the behinder I get?” Whoever it was could have found inspiration in the Department of Real Estate (pronounced Recorder of Deeds in 66 Counties). So here I am arriving at the DRE, running a bit late, but — mirabile dictu — there is no one […]

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