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Phoenix Bankruptcies Down

Arizona Republic: “Despite lingering economic worries, Phoenix-area bankruptcies eased for a fourth consecutive month in July.”

Good Work if You can Get It – Judge Judy Gets $45 Million a Year for 52 Days of Work

USA Today:  “Now [Judy] Sheindlin, who once mused how nice it would be to last a decade in television, enters her 15th year in syndication with a $45-million-a-year contract and no less contempt for scammers, swindlers and sinners against the English language.

Free CPE Lunch and Learn Events Have Resumed

Since May 2009, we have been offering free CPE “Lunch and Learn” events to local CPAs.  After taking several months this year off due to the busy tax season, we have resumed our CPE Lunch and Learn events, hosted by KEYTLaw attorney Jeana Morrissey.  Yesterday we restarted with the topic Step-Up in Basis [...]

KEYTLaw is One of the Most Popular Legal Blogs in the US

The lawyer website called Avvo has a web page called “Top Legal Blogs.”  As of July 13, 2010, the date this post was written, KEYTLaw’s website was number 12 on Avvo’s list of the most popular law blogs in the United States.  On July 13, 2010, KEYTLaw’s Alexa ratings were 159,774 worldwide [...]

Iraq Veteran in Grad School at Harvard Eloquently Explains Why Kagan Should be Rejected for the Supreme Court

We normally don’t get involved in political things like the Elena Kagan confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, but I watched and listened to a YouTube video of testimony given by Army Captain Pete Hegseth in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate that convinced me that the Senate should [...]

Remembering Our Fallen Heroes on Memorial Day

Memorial Day originated in the nineteenth century as a day to remember the soldiers who gave their lives in the American Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers.  It is the day Americans remember its military personnel who died while serving our country.  It is a day when people decorate the [...]

Richard Blumenthal – The Liar

1.  Wall St. Journal:  “Richard Blumenthal’s Real Record”

“The attorney general never gave Connecticut businesses the benefit of the doubt he’s now asking for. . . . The attorney general has also used the power of the state to bully small businesses. In 2003, he sued Computers Plus Center for $1.75 million [...]

More Blumenthal Claims on Vietnam Emerge

Yesterday the Connecticut Democrat party picked the proven liar and war-hero-wanna-be Richard Blumenthal to be its candidate for Chris Dodd’s seat in the United States Senate.  New York Times:  “Broader newspaper archival searches have continued to turn up claims by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that he was a Vietnam War [...]

More on Richard Blumenthal Misspeaking Numerous Times & Forgetting He Didn't Serve in Vietnam

1.  Washington Post:  “Why would anyone need to lie about having been in Vietnam?”

“As a Marine (and Vietnam veteran of no distinction whatsoever), I’ve run into men who told me they’d been in the Marines, too.  Always happy to meet a fellow Marine, I’d ask what unit they served in.  ‘Oh, I was [...]

Stolen Valor & Richard Blumenthal

Normally I would not write this post, but I am doing it in memory of a good friend of mine, Ed Schwebel, 63, an actual Vietnam veteran who died on May 11, 2010, after falling from a ladder while working on his home.  Ed and I were F-4 Phantom instructors in the [...]

Test Your Knowledge of Current Events

Take the PewResearch Center’s public knowledge test and compare your knowledge of current events with others who have taken the test.  It’s a quick 12 question online test.  The results are sad because it shows to many of the general public lacks knowledge about important public matters.  Click on this link to take the [...]

The World’s Strangest Engineering Projects

Popular Mechanics has an interesting compilation of pictures and information about the world’s strangest engineering projects.  The articles are:

The World’s 18 Strangest Buildings—And Why We Love Them The World’s 18 Strangest Airports The World’s 18 Strangest Tunnel The World’s 18 Strangest Homes The World’s 18 Strangest Roadways The World’s 18 Strangest [...]

American Heros: Three Harvard Law Grads & Close Friends in Class of 97 – Woman Widowed Twice by Her Husbands’ Deaths in Afghanistan

The Boston Globe:  “Three lives linked by call to duty, common tragedy.  The sacrifices of Harvard Law graduates who took unconventional paths leave friends and classmates searching for answers about themselves.  They were three best friends at Harvard Law School who turned their backs on lucrative careers to follow an exceedingly rare [...]

The Desolate Wilderness: A Chronicle of the Pilgrims’ Arrival at Plymouth

The Wall St. Journal has run the same two stories every Thanksgiving since 1961.  The first is “The Desolate Wilderness A chronicle of the Pilgrims’ Arrival at Plymouth.”  It starts with

Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton, keeper of [...]

Halloween Greetings from the KEYTLaw Firm

The KEYTLaw personnel wish you a happy Halloween and dance to the Monster Mash.

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards [...]

Free Lunch and Learn for CPAs – Earn CPE Credit

If you are a CPA who would like to earn free CPE (Continuing Professional Education) credit while enjoying a free lunch and networking with peers, consider joining Arizona attorney Jeana Morrissey of KEYTLaw, L.L.C., Arizona Republic Financial Columnist Dr. Harold Wong,  and other advanced practitioners as we participate in a monthly teleconference series, The [...]

Our 1st Post

This is the first post in the new KEYTLaw blog.  I’ve been procrastinating for years about starting a blog.  I finally got my act together and our new blog is alive!

Like the KEYTlaw website located at www.keytlaw.com, the purpose of this blog is to give people information about legal issues.  The content of [...]