Jimmy Kimmel is still on vacation, so there is not a new version of unnecessary censorship.  BUT, we do have a new episode of Zach Galifianakis’ “Between Two Ferns.”  Enjoy!

Maybe this would speed up the process and increase security in our airports…

I read this article from ABA Journal talking about how the NY Court System is getting a boost with free labor from volunteers, especially those left unemployed from the classes of 2009 and 2010.  Which lead me to the question, is society as a whole benefitting from the lack of jobs?  Obviously, there’s the incentive for people to be creative and start new companies, new firms, etc.  However, is the increase in public sector awareness, albeit for the purpose of filling one’s resume to prevent gaps, beneficial?  There’s obviously a lot of talented individuals still looking for employment.  And the large/medium law firm sector’s inability to hire in larger numbers is definitely a bonus to the public interest sector.  Hopefully they can take advantage of the influx of talent while its available and before unpaid (or low-paid) law grads run out of deferments and run to the big money.

No update on unnecessary censorship yet from Jimmy Kimmel’s youtube page.  We’ll get it up as soon as he posts.  Until then, check out this other sketch from his show… could be a potential job opportunity in it for you!

Here are two pretty funny Venn Diagrams showing what potential clients see on law firm home pages and biography pages.  They are both from the blog [non]billable hour.

(Quick Side note, for those of you wondering what happened to Movie Monday, it’ll be back in 2 weeks!  We’ll have all new videos starting in September !  Now back to the news):

Via the ABA Journal:

A California attorney known as the “tax lady” whose law firm grosses some $25 million a year has been accused by the state attorney general of operating a “heartless scheme” that takes retainers from thousands of clients while doing little or nothing to help them.

In fact, instead of reducing clients’ tax liability to the Internal Revenue Service, Roni Deutch often increases it, states a press release issued by AG Edmund Brown Jr. “She places clients in an endless loop of requests for duplicate documents,” it says, “that increases her fees and, due to further delays in payments to the IRS, increases clients’ IRS fines and penalties.

Meanwhile, Deutch allegedly advertises a success rate grossly in excess of her actual record of cutting clients’ tax bills.

A complaint filed yesterday in Sacramento Circuit Court by the AG’s office seeks an injunction prohibiting further allegedly unfair business practices, including advertising claims that Brown’s office contends are misleading, as well as $33.9 million in restitution and civil penalties, among other potential relief.

Among other claims, the suit contends that Deutch’s office has accepted and refused to refund money for legal work that was never performed.

Although the firm’s legal fees for work performed often exceed the amount of the client’s retainer, these fees are “arbitrary and false,” the suit contends, reflecting a “standardized time value” for specific tasks rather than the actual time spent to perform the work.

“Aside from telephone calls, none of defendants’ employees record the time they spend on client tasks because defendants do not require that employees do so. As a result, when the senior attorney examines a client’s file, the senior attorney can determine what tasks were completed, but has no idea how much time it took to complete any of them,” the complaint states. “Without this crucial information, the senior attorney cannot assign the actual amount oftime these tasks took, and instead assigns a standardized time value for each one.”