Justin R. Cruz

Working on building a new website for APABA Colorado, as our previous domain got hijacked by a cybersquatter. Please note the new web address: http://apaba-colorado.org. More updates to come.

Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) Organized in 1990, the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) of Colorado provides mutual support for Asian American attorneys, judges, law students, and the general Asian community in Colorado.

Just purchased an iPad mini, trying to figure out the best ways to integrate into my practice

Sort of been ignoring my fb fan page. Please follow me on twitter for the most recent legal posts.

Judge I work for just rotated to the Civil Division. You'll now find me in Courtroom 1 in the Denver District Court

Five Best Motions of the Year

Ridiculousness: The Five Best Motions of the Year We’re not in the business of filing pleadings at Above the Law, but there were five motions in 2009 that were outrageous enough to justify posting here.

The last paragraph sums up who need not apply to law school.

Applying to Law School? Please Reconsider! | Lawyerist Think you want to apply to law school? It might be time to rethink your decision. While law school admissions are at an all-time high, law jobs are disappearing. Maybe forever.

Interesting, Scalia doesn't think that being a public defender is productive for society:

Scalia Worries Gifted Litigators Should Be Doing Something More Productive | ABA Journal - Law News Justice Antonin Scalia says most lawyers who appear before the U.S. Supreme Court are so brilliant that he worries they should be doing something more productive. Scalia’s observation was made in an interview with C-Span, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports. ...

Trading DNA for a plea? I wrote a legal article in law school about DNA databases and the implicaitons with privacy rights and 4th Amendment issues

An OC Offer: Give Us Your DNA and We’ll Drop Your Charges - Law Blog - WSJ Orange County, Calif., has quietly begun offering a deal to some people who have only been arrested: give a DNA sample and have your charges dropped.

Example of why I believe in strong States' Rights

For Clues on Obama’s Med-Mal Proposal, We Look to the States - Law Blog - WSJ But WSJ reporters Nathan Koppel and Barbara Martinez spent much of Thursday examining what shape President Obama's medical-malpractice proposal might ultimately take. They looked to the states, writing: ...

The changing legal market (via )

Goldman's Observations: David Lat Talk Recap David Lat, the famous and talented blogger from Above the Law, gave a lunchtime talk today at Santa Clara Law entitled "The End of the World as You Know It: Reflections on the Future of the Legal World." (The talk title was almost as long as the talk). ...

Facebook fan page now linked to twitter.

Firms finally using tools I've been using for years

Career Alternatives: Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Social Media Director? Are you a laid-off lawyer who has been spending way too much time on Facebook? Here's a way to turn that "résumé gap" into job experience: