An Arizona hearing officer has “without reservation” recommended the immediate reinstatement of an attorney who had been suspended for one year. The attorney had represented a defendant at a criminal trial while under the influence of cocaine and had lied…

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Clean, Sober And Ready To Practice Law

The Chamber again put on a nice meeting for the South Hall Business Coalition at Mulberry Creek Community Center. If you have not been to the center, access is free for the indoor walking track and the workout center until February 1st. Then it looks like just $10 a month for adults after that

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The State of Hall County Address this morning

Industrial output grew at its fastest pace since October 2007, as the economy began to consume and invest more, suggesting that it may no longer need the stimulus offered in the form of low interest rates and high government spending. …

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Indian Economy : Industrial growth engine firing on all cylinders

John Cassidy interviews John Cochrane . Cochrane says, I think most people mean by a “bubble” just, “Prices were high and I wish I sold yesterday.” The efficient markets (hypothesis) never told you that wasn’t going to happen. What efficient markets says is that prices today contain the available information about the future.

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EMH and Bubbles

Following up on yesterday’s post about farmers and the IFA, today’s Irish Times reports that the government “is to introduce a statutory code of conduct for grocery retailers and suppliers, in spite of opposition from the bigger operators.” It is also being opposed despite opposition from the ESRI and the Competition Authority . Still, “newly elected president of the IFA, John Bryan, welcomed the announcement.”

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Groceries Code Being Introduced

Many congratulations to Kevin O’Rourke on being the first Irish-based recipient of the prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant for a project to research the inter-relationships between trade, trade policy and the Great Depression: you can find out more details here .

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Major Honour for Kevin O’Rourke

The Massachusetts Committee on Judicial Ethics has recently opined on the propriety of a judge allowing a local foundation to pay for two nights lodging at a drug court conference. The committee concludes: In sum, you [the inquiring judge] should…

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The Answer Is "Maybe"

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment against an attorney-plaintiff who had challenged an act adopted by the City Council that made it unlawful for professionals (including lawyers) to solicit business within 21 days…

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Solicitation Regulation Upheld

Now what am I supposed to do? You can read a bunch of the stories I was going to write about here in Neil Simpson’s round-up posted on Neil’s blog by Neil, (along with some other stories of interest that I missed!). What should I do instead of blogging, then

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Neil Simpson stole all of the stories that I was going to blog about

In a 2-1 per curiam opinion, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ordered the disbarment of an attorney who had submitted a fraudulent voucher for payment in a court-appointed criminal matter and testified falsely in the ensuing bar discipline…

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What You Have To Do To Get Disbarred Around Here

It was only last night that I heard that Terry Baker, formerly of the ESRI, had died on January 3rd (see http://www.esri.ie/irish_economy/quarterly_economic_commen/  ).  Readers of an older vintage will recall his role as chief contributor and editor of the  Quarterly Economic Commentary in the 1980s.  I worked as a Research Assistant with Terry on a number of these and his modus operandi was to take my numbers, tables and clumsy sentences and magically transform them into the most elegant prose.  A pretty mean table tennis player too, if I remember.  RIP.

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Terry Baker, RIP

The troubles of developer Bernard McNamara are receiving a lot of coverage: Stories about it in today’s Irish Times are here , here and here , while McNamara’s interview on RTE yesterday is available here (starts 40 minutes in – hearing him blame professional valuers for him paying too much for the Glass Bottle site was priceless). It is worth noting that, as with Liam Carroll, the fact that Bernard McNamara borrowed some money from outside the network of NAMA-bound banks (in this case, €62.5 million from clients of Davy’s clients) is the only reason that we are able to see the true state of his finances. And, of course, these stories raise the following question: Since Carroll and McNamara are hopelessly insolvent, who exactly is going to account for the eighty percent of NAMA’s loans that its business plan tells us will be paying back in full

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Bernard McNamara

Oracle Application Object Library recently added new standard Java datasource and Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) features to Oracle E-Business Suite in Patch 8571001 . These features are meant for use with Java EE programs deployed in application servers on external nodes; that is, nodes other than those where Oracle E-Business Suite middle tier is installed.

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AppsDataSource and Java Authentication and Authorization Service for Oracle E-Business Suite

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