Author: Mark Draughn
Adventures In Avvo – Take 2
Out of some curiosity about how bail works, I posted a question on Avvo Answers. The first answer I got was a clean miss by an out-of-state lawyer. Now Illinois’s own Jeremy Richey has stepped up. To review, here’s the question I asked: What’s my exposure if I bail someone out of jail? Chicago, IL… Read more
Adventures In Avvo – Take 1
After a recent episode of Raising the Bar, I’ve been wondering if some do-gooder could go around bailing indigent people out of jail so they can go home to their families even though they don’t have $500. Not that I could afford to do that, but how would that work? I know it only takes… Read more
Customs Agents Beat You Back
In response to my recent missive (“Beating Customs Agents With Your Laptop”) about the fourth-amendment-free zone overseen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Lawrence Friedman at Customs Law sent an email explaining some of what can really happen when you try to apply technogeek law to the real world: In response to your encryption-deleted key… Read more
The Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Columnist Steve Chapman has a piece today complaining that the coming increase in the minimum wage will cause unemployment: Come Friday, the federally mandated minimum wage will jump to $7.25 an hour from $6.55 — an 11 percent increase. At a time when employers are laying off workers, Washington is going to make it more… Read more
The Blogger Identity: Claims
One of the recent kerfuffles in the legal blogosphere (or, if you must, the blawgosphere) is about anonymity. On blogs. Yeah! I know! But they all sound so serious! Dan Hull started it (this time) with his declaration that What About Clients was now a “Wuss-Free Zone.” Effective July 1, 2009, and absent compelling reasons,… Read more