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As I mentioned in my last post, Dean David Van Zandt of the Northwestern University School of Law came up with his own ranking of law schools based on the number of graduates named to Super Lawyers adjusted to reflect class size (using 1999 enrollment figures).
Now Brian Leiter’s Law School Report blog takes a crack at it. His ranking is also based on the number of graduates named to Super Lawyers plus some sort of weighted average formula which I frankly don’t understand. What both rankings have in common is that they make adjustments based on class size. But they reach very different results.
For example, Leiter’s top ten list is missing three schools that were in Van Zandt’s top ten. Texas, number 3 according to Leiter, isn’t even in Van Zandt’s top 14 (why 14? I have no idea. That’s where his ranking ends on the ABL post)
The point is that simply applying a weighted average based on class size doesn’t magically produce a “more valid ranking.” I’ve seen three weighted average rankings adjusted for class size so far (including the test we ran prior to publishing our list) and the results have been all over the board.
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These headlines appeared on a single page (B5) today in our hometown newspaper, the Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune:
Trial Opens in New Year’s killing
Dad charged with killing his son
Sexual assault after concert
Police seek clues in fatal shooting of 23-year-old
Sex assault suspect charged
Gang stabbing brings guilty plea
The advertising on the page: Three ads for funeral and cremation services.
I found this site vaguely amusing, although morbid 
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Malcom Gladwell, author of the The Tipping Point and Blink has a new book, Outliers: The Story Of Success. We particularly enjoyed the chapter, “The Three Lessons of Joe Flom.” Flom, as many of you know, is the last living named partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and a perennial name on the New York Metro Super Lawyers list and has been a Top 100 honoree as well. His story is the stuff of legend and Gladwell does his typical expert job telling it.
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An item in today’s New Jersey Law Journal daily news alert is potentially misleading and needs clarification. The Journal reports:
COURT LIKELY TO EASE, NOT LIFT, ITS BAN ON COMPARATIVE LAWYER ADVERTISING
New Jersey’s Supreme Court seems poised to alter its current outright prohibition on advertising in which lawyers compare their abilities to others, probably by requiring that such ads include caveats to potential clients. The Court wants to create a “sensibly balanced rule,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said Wednesday at a hearing on whether lawyer should be able, within limits, to tout their ratings in publications like Super Lawyers Best Lawyers. But it was clear from the tenor of the arguments and the justices’ occasional remarks that comparative advertisements will likely have to be accompanied by some form of disclaimer that “super lawyer” or “best lawyer” designations do not have the Court’s blessing.
Reading this, one might infer that lawyers are currently banned from advertising in, or mentioning selection to Super Lawyers (or Best Lawyers) in their advertising because of the comparative advertising rule. That is not the case. Over the past four years, hundreds of New Jersey lawyers have advertised in New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine, or have mentioned the Super Lawyers honor in their advertising or promotional materials. Not a single one of them has been disciplined, or threatened with discipline for doing so. The same can be said of the thousands of lawyers nationwide who advertise or mention their selection to Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers has been around since 1991. In those 18 years, no court or discipline authority has ever prohibited lawyers from advertising in or about Super Lawyers.
So, New Jersey lawyers and reporters, please note: There is no ban on Super Lawyers or Best Lawyers advertising. Never has been and, as long as the First Amendment is around, there never will be.
The only thing the New Jersey Supreme Court has banned is the clumsy and misguided disaster known as Opinion 39 which itself sought to impose such a ban at the expense of free speech. Click here to read the court’s opinion and here to read the report of Judge Fall upon which the court based its ruling.
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Hey everyone, I hope that all my readers are well and doing fine today. Here is an article all about the criminal law process and the criminal court process that I hope will help them and keep them informed on the dynamics of this complicated court system. I hope that you enjoy, and thank you for reading our Toms River NJ bail bonds site!
Criminal Court Process
By Jon Dykstra
If you’ve been charged with a crime in British Columbia, chances are during the arrest and aftermath nobody told you what to expect. Probably all you learned was the date you’re to show up to court. And that’s if you were released from the police.
Upon arrest, there’s 2 immediate outcomes:
i. You’re released with a court date; or
ii. You’re detained for a bail hearing. Your bail hearing will result in either being released on bail or kept in jail until the outcome of your trial.
Regardless whether you’re released or not, the criminal process is similar.
What’s Next?
1. 1st Appearance
The next step is either you or your lawyer goes to court on the date you were given upon release (or if in jail, the date set by the court). The 1st appearance serves 2 purposes:
i. You receive the particulars of your case from the prosecutor; and
ii. a date is set for your arraignment hearing.
Note that sometimes the prosecutor won’t have the particulars ready for your first appearance. In that case, you or your lawyer will need to attend again before your arraignment hearing.
2. The Particulars
The particulars is the paperwork setting out the prosecutor’s case against you. You or your lawyer can’t build your defence until you review the particulars. The particulars include the charges against you, the police notes, the report to crown counsel (the prosecutor), any technical data (such as breathalyzer results) and any other evidence the prosecutor will rely on.
3. The Arraignment Hearing
The arraignment hearing is held in the court where your case proceeds. This hearing is where you, the accused, enter a plea (not guilty if defending). Then your trial and perhaps preliminary hearing (see below) are scheduled.
4. Preliminary Inquiry
If the prosecutor is listing your charge(s) as indictable (more serious offences), then you are entitled to a preliminary inquiry. If your case is going by summary charge, then you aren’t entitled to a preliminary hearing.
A preliminary inquiry is an opportunity for you or your lawyer to ask questions of the prosecutor’s witnesses – usually the investigating police officers. This is an opportunity to learn more about the case against you. This hearing is held in a court and the testimony of all the witnesses is under oath.
5. Pre-Trial Conference
Before your trial, you or your lawyer must attend a pre-trial conference (PTC). This is usually held 1 to 1.5 months before your trial and is also held in the court. At the PTC, any outstanding issues are resolved. Otherwise, you (or your lawyer) and the prosecutor confirm with the court that both sides are ready for trial.
6. The Trial
Finally, you the accused, get your day in court. Sometimes a judge will decide the matter that day. Other times, the judge will hold off making a decision. If the judge holds off making a decision, you’ll get a date to return to court at which time the judge will issue her or his decision.
If a jury heard your case, then the jury will be instructed to decide your matter right away. You’ll learn the outcome upon the jury making its decision.
If you’re found not guilty, you’re free to go. If you’re found guilty, then you’ll be scheduled a sentencing date (sometimes sentencing may occur right away after the decision). If the sentencing hearing is scheduled in the future, either you’re held in jail until then or released until then. This primarily depends on the seriousness of the conviction and whether jail will be likely sentence. For example, if you’re found guilty of a first DUI, then you won’t be held in jail. If you’re found guilty of 1st degree murder, you’ll most likely be held in jail.
7. The Sentencing Hearing
You hope your matter doesn’t come to a sentencing hearing. However, sometimes it does. The process at a sentencing hearing is that both sides will make submissions for a particular type of sentence (i.e. jail length, probation terms, licence restrictions, etc. – depending on the nature of the conviction). The judge then decides and orders your sentence.
In a nutshell, that’s the criminal process in British Columbia.
To learn more about hiring a criminal defence lawyer in British Columbia, check out Dykstra & Company who are BC criminal defence lawyers. Dykstra & Company represents people charged with DUI and traffic offences, assault charges, and drug charges with law offices in Abbotsford and Surrey, BC.
Jon Dykstra
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