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FBI Conspires with Informats to Commit 5,638 Crimes in 2011

USA Today: “The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents . . . . Agents authorized 15 crimes a day, on average, including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies.”

The days when the United States was subject to the rule of law are gone. The federal government breaks the law with impunity and the President, the Department of Justice and Congress does nothing.

Boomerang Home Buyers Increasing

Arizona like the rest of the country has suffered through the real estate bust. Many prognosticators predicted that people who lost homes through foreclosures and short sales would be out of the real estate market for many years due to the bad credit that arises from defaulting on a home loan. The good news is that the prognosticators may have been wrong. A story in the Arizona Republic says:

“Thousands of new Phoenix-area homeowners are proving the experts wrong. These ‘boomerang buyers’ — so called by real-estate insiders because they were out of the market and have now come back — have returned as a major market force much earlier than expected. Many buyers are qualifying for a new loan only a few years after defaulting on their last mortgage.”

Texting While Driving in Arizona

Arizona Republic: “Almost every state has responded to rising smartphone use with a law banning drivers from texting, many in the past few years. Arizona is one of nine states that have yet to make that leap, according to a Governors Highway Safety Association report released in July.”

The Best of Law Dog

Since law dog is all the rage, we thought we’d share the best of law dog. Check out all of law dog’s pictures here.

Starting Salaries For Law Grads Drops Significantly

ABA Journal:

New law grads in private practice are no longer taking home median paychecks in the six figures.

The erosion in BigLaw jobs is depressing the salaries for all class of 2011 law graduates, according to new statistics from NALP–The Association for Legal Career Professionals.

Law grads from the class of 2011 are earning median pay of $60,000, a 5 percent drop from 2010 and a 17 percent drop since 2009. Average pay is $78,653, a 15 percent drop since 2009. The figures are for grads who found full-time employment in jobs lasting at least a year.

The drop in starting pay is even more pronounced when only private practice jobs are considered, according to a press release. Median pay for 2011 law grads in private practice is $85,000, an 18 percent drop from 2010, when the median was $104,000, and a 35 percent drop since 2009, when the median was $130,000. Average pay in private practice is $97,821, a 15 percent drop since 2009.

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