“Super Lawyers”? not so much…

Please, if you get the Los Angeles Magazine February 2008 issue, here is a WARNING! Over the years there has been this huge dog and pony show called “Super Lawyers.” It is a rating and feeding frenzy with referrals from other lawyers about this one and...

John’s Rate-a-Lawyer: Mark Vincent Kaplan

Well, Well, Well! Mark Vincent Kaplan, Lawyer…what can be said about Mr. Kaplan that has not been said already? Plenty, this guy has been under the radar for many years! Mr. Kaplan is a former partner of Trope and Trope, and now that firm has to remove his shoe...

Don’t be thrown by video depositions

OK girls and boys, the weapon of choice today, if you are dumb enough to pay for it, is the deposition on video! Yup, you walk into the conference room and we now have a set up that looks like a dimestore movie set. You get wired up with a mike, and are asked not...