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What Do You Do?: Making Sense of My New Profession
Posted by: Sean Goodbody
December 13, 2011
"And what do you do?"
Until very recently, I never had a good answer for that question. I've had answers, for sure, but never very interesting answers, and never about anything permanent. (There's only so much people want to hear about my being a student, an intern, or someone "just working here for the summer.")
But since late October, I finally have a definite answer: "I'm a lawyer."
It took four years of college and three years of law school (and a whole lot of tests) to be able to say that. Law professors told us - and we law students told each other - that passing the bar exam and getting sworn in as an attorney would feel wonderful. And it has.
But I've noticed something they never taught us in law school: when you tell someone, "I'm a lawyer," there's a decent chance that they'll cringe, and then tell a joke that begins, "So there's a busload of lawyers driving towards a cliff..."
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French admirer of 19th-Century American democracy, said that lawyers
Telephone Record Theft
Posted by: Damon Davis
December 13, 2011
The News of the World scandal involving phone hacking by the Rupert Murdoch owned paper, raises questions regarding the legal protection of telephone records. The scandal involved telephone hacking into the voicemails of crime victims and military families. Colorado makes it illegal for persons to obtain the telephone records or sell the telephone records of another. Section 18-13-125, C.R.S. The sale or purchase of such records is a misdemeanor.
Additionally, Colorado law permits an individual whose telephone records have been traded to bring a lawsuit. Section 13-21-122.5, C.R.S. Such a suit may be brought under the lower preponderance of the evidence standard, even if the perpetrators have not been found guilty of a crime. Section 13-21-122.5(1), C.R.S. The plaintiff may recover actual damages, including "to reputation or credit rating, punitive damages, and attorney fees and costs."
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