No "behaving badly" series can be complete without lawyers and judges behaving badly.
1. Texas lawyer - "Exclusively for white people"
2. Pennsylvania lawyer - "Charging your client for your bad behavior"
3. Georgia lawyer - "Jail is better than attending a deposition"
4. Attorneys and judges behaving badly from Wall Street Journal
5. Two CA judges censured for having sex with staff in chambers
6. Judges behaving badly from Above the Law
7. Congress investigates judges behaving badly 2015
8. Lawyer stalks opponent's trial witness back to witness's office and threatens him for testifying.
9. Lawyer disbarred for advising his post-foreclosure clients to break back into their homes after Sheriff lockout.
10. Judge takes emergency retirement the next day after partying in a bar with counsel who regularly appear before her.
11.
Judge publicly admonished for using his courtroom clerk and bailiff to
perform property-management duties for his investment properties. [And
for a while, he was assigned, of all things, to the eviction calendar!]
12.
Small claims judge too concerned about being late for her lunch date
waiting for her in her courtroom, than the trial proceeding in front of
her.
[For the month of April, I will be participating in A to Z Blogging Challenge. My topic will be legal definitions explained in plain (and hopefully humorous) English. Hope you enjoy!]
Monday, March 30, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Tenants behaving badly
As a follow-on to last week's post, this week is dedicated to tenants behaving badly.
1. We all know the movie Pacific Heights
2. UK tenants behaving badly
3. From Money Smarts Blog
4. Airbnb horror stories
5. Too-numerous-to-count tenants who grow marijuana and run meth labs from their rental properties.
6. Tenant who ran garden hose inside and soaked the hardwood floors.
7. Tenant who placed a cardboard box full of shredded newspaper on top of his electric stove and turned on the burner just before he moved out. The resulting fire destroyed the apartment and damaged the two adjoining units.
8. Homeowner lost his house to foreclosure. He smeared yoghurt onto all the interior walls and ceilings in the heat of summer. When the bank took over the property about a month later, the real estate agent found so much mold in the home that it had to be demolished.
9. Disgusting, murky swimming pool which, when drained after the tenant moved out, revealed an old car, a lawn mower, and several dead dogs.
Here are some sites with advice on dealing with tenants from hell:
Tips for managing terrible tenants
How to keep from having nightmare tenants
If anyone has their own "bad tenant" story, please post in comments.
1. We all know the movie Pacific Heights
2. UK tenants behaving badly
3. From Money Smarts Blog
4. Airbnb horror stories
5. Too-numerous-to-count tenants who grow marijuana and run meth labs from their rental properties.
6. Tenant who ran garden hose inside and soaked the hardwood floors.
7. Tenant who placed a cardboard box full of shredded newspaper on top of his electric stove and turned on the burner just before he moved out. The resulting fire destroyed the apartment and damaged the two adjoining units.
8. Homeowner lost his house to foreclosure. He smeared yoghurt onto all the interior walls and ceilings in the heat of summer. When the bank took over the property about a month later, the real estate agent found so much mold in the home that it had to be demolished.
9. Disgusting, murky swimming pool which, when drained after the tenant moved out, revealed an old car, a lawn mower, and several dead dogs.
Here are some sites with advice on dealing with tenants from hell:
Tips for managing terrible tenants
How to keep from having nightmare tenants
If anyone has their own "bad tenant" story, please post in comments.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Landlords behaving badly
This week's edition of the blog focuses on bad landlords. Sure, I've represented bad landlords, including slumlords. Not all attorneys have the luxury of picking and choosing their clients, and many times I don't know they're slumlords until I get to trial.
But they are my clients, so I do my best for them.
I always try to settle my cases, and most tenants of a bad landlord or slumlord want to move out to get away from the horrible living conditions. So usually this works out in everyone's favor. Here are some examples of landlords behaving badly. Some of these activities are legal and some aren't. Of course NONE of these examples are from MY client base....
1. New York landlords behaving badly
2. San Francisco landlord behaving badly
3. UK landlords behaving badly
4. Landlord won't fix roof, which leaks like a sieve, because the tenant hasn't paid rent.
5. Landlord shuts off utilities for 24 hours and blames it on "a bad breaker box".
6. Landlord installs friend/relative in the neighboring apartment who plays LOUD music at all hours of the day and night, to annoy a specific tenant and cause him to move out.
7. Landlord has tenant's car towed because said car is parked one inch over the parking spot's limit line.
If anyone has their own "bad landlord" story, please post in comments.
[Next week, tenants behaving badly.]
But they are my clients, so I do my best for them.
I always try to settle my cases, and most tenants of a bad landlord or slumlord want to move out to get away from the horrible living conditions. So usually this works out in everyone's favor. Here are some examples of landlords behaving badly. Some of these activities are legal and some aren't. Of course NONE of these examples are from MY client base....
1. New York landlords behaving badly
2. San Francisco landlord behaving badly
3. UK landlords behaving badly
4. Landlord won't fix roof, which leaks like a sieve, because the tenant hasn't paid rent.
5. Landlord shuts off utilities for 24 hours and blames it on "a bad breaker box".
6. Landlord installs friend/relative in the neighboring apartment who plays LOUD music at all hours of the day and night, to annoy a specific tenant and cause him to move out.
7. Landlord has tenant's car towed because said car is parked one inch over the parking spot's limit line.
If anyone has their own "bad landlord" story, please post in comments.
[Next week, tenants behaving badly.]
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