My Choice

1.       Lucero, Chelsea Elizabeth

2.      Angel, Renferd K

3.      Chambers, Everett Warren

4.      Hardy, Tyrone

5.      Casey, Daniella Erin

6.      Lee, Sean Anthony

7.      Howard, Brett Carroll

8.      Bowman, Robert B.

9.      Hearty, Raymond

10.   Terheide, Melinda M

11.    Schmidt, Chase M.

12.   Smith, Cary Keola

13.   Orton, David Wayne

14.   Hayford, Kristin

15.   Cordova, Jake Charles

16.   Lucero, Chelsea Elizabeth

17.   Lopez, Osvaldo

18.   Hernandez, Edwin Jess

19.   Hasson, Keith

20.  Ferreira, Charles Edward

21.   Beymer, Eric D.

Week 10 EOC: Erin Brockivich vs Flash of Genius

In comparing the two films, I can see why Flash of Genius didn’t to do too well in the theater. Flash of Genius was the dark reality of what litigation can be. Robert Kearns’s story of heart break is just horrible. The big corporation taking an idea from the little guy is something that happens more often than not I’m sure. It took 20 years for him to finally receive a moral triumph; Even though he didn’t receive as much as if he would’ve settled. I consider myself as a designer or an artist and if someone stole my idea I would be very upset also. I’m not sure I would let it consume 20 years of my life though. I could see that he was a beaten man at the end of it all. Is it really worth losing everything just to be found morally right? Erin Brokovich was a feel good movie that hardly showed the reality of litigation. The big corporation in this film was in the wrong once again. It seems that once a company gets that large they just do whatever they want. Erin Brokovich in the film was portrayed in the film unlike any other lawyer that I’ve ever seen or heard about. The lawyers that I’m used to dealing with or hearing about are Lawyers that are greedy and pretty unscrupulous. I did feel good when the large corporations in both films were defeated. It seemed almost impossible when you think what both Dr. Bob Kearns and Erin Brokovich were up against. In the end I enjoyed both films and I’ve learned when it comes to business not to trust anyone. I also learned that to keep all documentation of your work o have something to back you up if needed.

WEEK 7 EOC : 10 LAWYERS WITH WEBSITES

1.     Louis Joseph Tavano 9360 W. Flamingo Rd., Ste. 110-491 , Las Vegas , NV 89147 702-740-0241 www.lawyers.justia.com

2.     Tyler R. Andrews 3773 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Ste. 500 N , Las Vegas , NV 89109 702-792-3773 www.gtlaw.com/People/TylerRAndrews

3.     Robert H. Reynolds 823 South 6th Street , Las Vegas , NV 89101 702-385-3343  http://www.btlaw.com/

4.     James D. Boyle 400 South Fourth Street Third Floor , Las Vegas , NV 89101 702-791-0308 www.santorodriggs.com/attorneys

5.     Mark Ernest Ferrario Kummer Kaempfer et al, 3800 Howard Hughes Pkwy 7FL, Las Vegas, NV 89169-0913  702-792-7000 www.legalforce.com

6.     Mark R Borghese 7251 W. Lake Mead Suite 530, Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-382-4804 www.martindale.com

7.     Ira W David 380 Howard Hughes Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89169 702-222-2113. www.morishitalawfirm.com

8.     Christopher Benjamin Anthony Albright, Stoddard, Warnick & Albright, 801 S Rancho Dr Ste D4, Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-384-7111 http://www.attorneyhelp.org/

9.     Patrick W. Kang 5516 S. Fort Apache Rd., Ste. 120 , Las Vegas , NV 89148 702-533-0901 www.legalmetric.com

10.  Adam Pontaleone Segal Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, PC, 300 S 4th St #1200, Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-464-7001 http://www.bestlawyers.com/

WEEK 7 EOC: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY QUESTIONS

1.       In what ways would the engineer that chose the rebar at the Harmon building at City Center be held liable? Can he be sued civilly?

2.       How would I protect an original piece of audio and prevent people from performing it live?

3.       If an interior designer specs out a specific piece of furniture or flooring, and the item injures someone. Can he or she be held liable?

4.       If a drafting contract was documented for a design and the company lost ownership, can I still be compensated?

5.       If I propose a design for a potential client and they refuse the design but use it regardless what can I do?

6.       If I work on a video project with a partner and it was free, but they sell it later can I be compensated?

7.       Are the penalties for offenses similar in all states?

8.       If production work is created using a popular program, am I allowed to make money off of it?

9.       If a building is formed from a plan, and it doesn’t hold up well who is blamed?

       10.     If a film I worked on is produced and shown in theatres, and my name is left out of the is       credits there anything I can do to be compensated?

Week 6 EOC: illicit

My girlfriend recently went to went to Cambodia to visit family. While she was there she went to the local market and bought three Breitling watches and around five Louis Vitton bags for $100.00. Each watch that she bought if real was worth between $5,000 to $7,000. When she got back and gave me the watches I was excited to receive them. They looked so real and heavy like the real deal. I was amazed at how nice they looked. I haven’t worn them yet, I felt weird wearing such an expensive watch. After viewing the movie I definitely won’t wear them. I have to admit that I’ve bought illicit items before and have worn them with no qualms. I now feel bad for that. All the items that I’ve owned that were illicit were bought because I wanted to feel good about myself and what I had, I wanted to “keep up with the Jones’s “. I vow to never do that again. I think this movie was a real eye opener. The effects of sales of these illicit are far reaching. When I purchased these items in the past I had no idea the ramifications that my actions were. I’m going to talk to my girlfriend about this film and find it on the internet and show it to her. I’m sure after watching it she will have the same reaction that I had. It is really sad that this happens almost unthwarted in by officials in law enforcement. It’s sad to see all the corruption in the world that lets things like this happen. I deal with luggage every day at my job, and I have become pretty good at picking out fake Louis Vitton bags. It amazing how many I see on a daily basis. I wonder if those people saw this movie would they purchase another knock off. I hope not

Week 5 EOC: Lawyers looking for fame

   “Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.”- Spanish proverb  You here of stories in the media all the time of Lawyers being overzealous and being hungry for fame. After reading the article 10 lawyers and Supreme Court I was angered and sadden. For a Lawyer to take a case merely in the hope that the case would go to the Supreme Court is just appalling. There’s one and only one reason they’re interested, “It’s not because they love the client or believe in the legal principle the case presents. That is just wrong in so many ways. On one hand you would hope that the client is getting the best representation but on the other hand at what cost.

“It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands”. Spanish Proverb Gloria Allred is a good example of a lawyer putting herself before her client.  Gloria Allred has many times put her so called expertise to work on someone that been hurt or injured someway by another person. She only takes cases that are high profile and will get her face on television. She seems to be in a lot of cases just a publicity hound setting up all sorts of press conferences to get her and sometimes her clients on CNN Fox News or any other news channel she can get on. I wonder if it would be better to do these cases a different way.“Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers takingtherest.Thisisnotjustice.”PatRoberts www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/lawyers.html

I hope to never need a Lawyer again because I have such a great dislike for them.

Week 4 EOC: Death Race Jeapordy

This exercise was interesting, It was actually fun.  This is a very boring and uninteresting subject but playing the game made better. I am someone that learns by repetition and there is a lot of that. I learned about employed to invent, I learned that an employer has the right to use an idea or something that has been created on the job for their gain and not yours. I’ve learned that the process of receiving a patent is a very long process unless you have deep pocket. Its seems unfair that all these patent applications are sitting on a desk somewhere and are there waiting for approval.

It seems just as in life it’s all you know and how rich you are to influence others to get applications pushed through quickly. Mr. Pinto spoke of how ford is attempting to get a new patent on their batteries, and how they will not have to wait like the rest of us because they have patent lawyers to push these through.

I didn’t   however agree with how the extra credit points were given out. I was on a team that gave up and we never got any points. I received a total of only 9 points and other people received up to 46 points just they happened to be in a group that actually cared. It doesn’t seem to fair.

Nonetheless this experience was one I won’t  soon forget

Week 3 EOC: Jeopardy- Challenges and Opportunities

I have been in this school for 2 years now and I think this is one of the best ways that any instructor has approached the subject of learning definitions. I have a hard time remembering definitions especially terms that don’t interest me that much. The subject of patent law is probably of the most boring subjects to learn definitions. The challenges of the jeopardy game are trying to figure out what goes first. I keep getting confused on asking the question first. My mind wants to do it the other way around.  Trying to come up with funny or clever titles is another challenge. The example of another student game helped. The student had very funny titles for her categories, just like the real life game. One of the titles was “my lawyer is on line 1”, that’s just funny. One of the other titles was “hey you can’t do that”. Both of these titles are very clever, I’m going to have to step my game up.  The opportunities are that I might actual learn these definitions; learning for me is helped by repetition and I am going have to do a lot of repetition. Some of these word and definitions are definitely new to me. There are so many aspects of the law and we won’t be able to go over everything in one class. I look forward to using such words as patent owner which is usually the inventor unless the invention and patent rights were assigned.  I always wondered what Patent Pending meant when I had seen it on products, now I will have the knowledge that patent pending is when a patent application has been filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. If it wasn’t for this activity I really don’t think I would retain any of these definitions.

Week 2 EOC: What do I think of Lawyers?

What do I think of lawyers?

                From all of my experiences with lawyers, I am not a big fan. There have been a couple of times where I had to hire a lawyer. I understand that they have to make a living but I think that a lot of them are just greedy. The media does not portray lawyers in a true and actual light. Lawyers will not take a case unless they think they will win, even if the client is right and they have the law on they’re side.

                When I had to hire a lawyer I felt like a number and not a person that they were truly interested in what I was saying or feeling about my case. I think that lawyers need some customer service skills. Even if it’s all BS I think it would change my and the public’s opinion of lawyers. In this specific case I was accused of assisting a hotel guest get a hooker. The allegations were completely false, but I was scared and I had to hire a lawyer.  My wife was pregnant with my first child and this all happened the same week of her due date. As you can imagined I was a little stressed out about the whole situation. After having my initial consultation the lawyer told me that he needed a retainer of $5000.00. He made me feel like I was not important and that he didn’t believe me. I came up with the money and gave it to him. While I was in still in the office he made a phone call to the detective. He explained that I had retained legal counsel. After talking with the detective for like 5 minutes, that was it. I never heard from the detective again. Effectively I paid $5000.00 for a phone call! That is why I hate lawyers.

Week1EOC: My Voice

Design,

This is something that I’ve always loved; I just never discovered that till my first purchase of a home. When I purchased that house I found myself wanting to spend every working moment designing and picking out furnishings for each room in the house. I think back to when I was growing up to all the times I would sketch houses and designs of cars. After years of making excuses, I finally made the plunge. I went back to school at the ripe old age of 39. I am learning something new every day and have met some amazing people in school. I am inspired every day by my surroundings. I work at the Wynn, where Roger Thomas has created an amazing space. From a design aspect I couldn’t pick a better place to work. My favorite type of design is a cross between contemporary and modern with a touch of Art Deco. Everywhere you go you will find something in that space that a designer has designed.  My feild touches people's lives in various ways everyday. Whatever furnishings, or paint, or even the fabric on a pillow that I spec out for a space can envoke many different emotions. I don't take that power lightly. The power a Designer has to create beauty is a wonderful thing.