Legal Authority: How I made contact, found this person and why they are a good choice.

How I made contact, and found my lawyer wasn’t very easy at all. As soon as I was given this I had already looked up lawyers. From there emails and numbers so I could have a good list of ones to call and or email on the topics I wanted to talk with them about. I even ended up sending an email to Erin Brockvich hoping that maybe she or someone that she worked with could get back to me in time with anything at all. After the list of lawyers I got from looking them up in class ended with not getting a word from them I really felt like just giving up, some of my other class mates were already giving up as well. So I ended up talking to my grandmother for help. Shes not no lawyer or anything but shes pretty good with getting things like this done, even after two weeks of looking and calling in the yellow pages for lawyers nothing. When I couldn’t work on the finding the lawyers she helped by making calls but, we would be on hold and get nothing. Or they would say they would call back and we would get no call backs, we also would leave messages for them. We got a hold of one place that said they didn’t have the lawyer I was looking for but that we could come in and just talk and see if they could help. When we gave up we called them back so we could go, and a man named Michael Joe told us to give Robert Reid a call. Luck be hold the Saturday before my final we got someone to talk with about my questions. I can’t that he was a good choice, but in the end of things he was the best.

WEEK 10 EOC: Erin Brockovich VS Robert Kearn's

Today in class we watch a movie on about Robert Kearns the man who came up with the idea of putting a timer with the windshield wiper. But I’m not here to talk to you about how he came up and made the idea. I’m here to compare the dark sad feel of the road Robert Kearns and the happy go lucky one of Erin Brockvich.
I saw in the retelling of Erin Brockvich story “an unknown legal researcher” (http://www.brockovich.com/mystory.html) that made it big. By helping a family that was being poised the water they had on their land. She showed a lighter side of law in a way that was not shown in Roberts Kearns movie. The things I saw from her is that lawyers may want money but they’ll fight for you even if they can’t win. She stayed by the family’s side and would not stop fighting for their rights and heath, even if it was a long fight with little.
On the other hand for Robert Kearns, he showed the darker side of what the law could do to you. With having a dream be pulled from below you, and giving to the world under someone else’s name. As was said before he worked in making the two items we all use when it rains, to help us see and drive. The law in his path way a lot sadder then Erin’s and showed me how thing can be with big corps. I feel for Robert Kearns for in the end all I really would want too is to have the world know I made something. He lost so much in his fight to make the world know from his wife to his time with his kids.
As they say there is two sides to every coin and the can be said with the law as well.

WEEK 10 BOC: Lawyer Jokes

A doctor and a lawyer were attending a cocktail party when the doctor was approached by a man who asked advice on how to handle his ulcer. http://www.lawyer-jokes.us/

When lawyers die, why don’t vultures eat them?

Even a vulture has taste. http://www.lawyer-jokes.us/

A golfer hooked his tee shot over a hill and onto the next fairway. Walking toward his ball, he saw a man lying on the ground, groaning with pain.

"I'm an attorney," the wincing man said, "and this is going to cost you $5000."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," the concerned golfer replied. "But I did yell 'fore'."

"I'll take it," the attorney said.
http://www.ahajokes.com/law025.html

Week 7 EOC: 10 Lawyers with websites

Skinner, Watson & Rounds, P.C.-http://stats.findlaw.com/prod=dts/cid=2255207/msa=197/pa=131/sub=6155/*http://www.sswlegal.com/

Dozier Internet Law, P.C.-http://stats.findlaw.com/prod=dts/cid=3185607/msa=197/pa=131/sub=1302632/*http://www.cybertriallawyer.com/?ref=findlaw1

Kring & Chung Attorneys,L.L.P.-http://www.kringandchung.com/

Michael P. Kimbrell, Ltd.-http://www.michaelpkimbrelllaw.com/

John Peter Lee,Ltd.-http://www.johnpeterlee.com/

Watson Rounds-http://www.watsonrounds.com/

McFarling Benson-http://www.mcfarlinglaw.com/

Steven A. Gibson-http://www.gibsonlowry.com/

Greenberg Traurig, LLP-http://www.gtlaw.com/

Snell & Wilmer-http://www.swlaw.com/

Week 7 EOC: Intellectual Property Questions

1.How do I know what form of intellectual property protection is available for my work?
2.How "original" does my work have to be merit copyright protection?
3.How do I know if I can protect my business information as a trade secret?
4.How much of my work is protected under a copyright?
5.How can i prove that there has been an infringement on my copyright?
6.Are there specialized courts in the United States that hear intellectual property claims?
7.What is required for me to pursue an action for the appropriation of an intellectual property?
8.The name of my company was approved when I incorporated-Doesn't that mean I am free to use that name as a trademark?
9.Does Copyright protection extend overseas?
10.What are the damages for copyright infringement?

WEEK 6 EOC: illicit

Today in class we watched a video on illicit action from around the world. These action that are part of the black market take place from New York to Hong Kong, and more. There are people wanting to sale you all type of things from as small as pills to as big as sport cars. It starts small, I like just buying a bag from the guy on the streets of New York city or a small shop in Hong Kong with their own sweet shops.
Now to tell you what I was thinking about watching this video. I knew a little about what was being talked about but there was a lot more then I didn’t know. Like I said earlier you could just being getting something off a person on the street. That you may not over think about it, if I did find something nice that I wanted now I’m sure I’ll buy it. I’ve even found out about two years ago that some models I got in L.A. were fakes. At the time I didn’t know but only spent eight dollars on them that was very good, but if I were to buy them again I wouldn’t because they were bad fakes. Like getting things on the street this was easy to buy but from what they showed in Hong Kong , there was so much that they did. They would walk you all about the streets making you lost. I for one wouldn’t be so cool with doing this, they also wanted to see your pass ports. There were bigger things that I really did like there were even fake drugs. I hated this the most, because someone could be wanting pills for their sick family member. Most of the pills were paint and other deadly things. I felt after watching this along as you know you’re not buying the real thing its ok, but not when it comes to pills and parts for cars.

Week 1 EOC: My about me

Hello to those that are reading this, my name is Keith Alan Hasson Jr. and I’m student at the Art Institute of Las Vegas(Ailv). At Ailv I’m studying Media Art & Animation, to one day work on cartoon and hopefully make my own. In time after I’m done with Ailv I would also like to do some work with comic books, to test the waters. I became a fan of drawing and art because of my grandmother. When I was about seven or eight I asked her to draw me something, and from then on I’ve been drawing. At first like most people that pick up a pencil I really wasn’t all that good, but I did get that there were parts that made up a person. I never made stick people when I would draw; my drawing always had meat on them. Some of the cartoons that also watched played a big part in me liking to draw and look into be coming an animator. Cartoons like Dragon Ball, Voltron, and Thundercats and many others great animations. After finding out how much I loved to draw, I would do it all the time. I even started to do art contests when I was a little kid. Ended up taking first place in a Nevada Jr duck drawing contest, that was from grades 3rd to 7th. My drawing became a stamp, and I was given a paint of the Nevada’s duck stamp. Back then all I know I wanted to do was draw, not till 6th grade did I know more about cartoons. I found out about anime that really helped open my eyes to all type of animations. After some time of working on my skills and always being in art clubs I found friends that loved it just as much as me. Over time I would only look at cartoons to see how they moved, and how others would make them move. Cartoons that moved real I just loved and new that’s what I always wanted to do.

Week 3 EOC: Jeopardy Game

Today I’ll be talking about using the Jeopardy Game as a studying or learning tool, for my Contracts, Negotiations and Copyright class. I was given a power point that was also the Jeopardy game. From my first looks of the game I didn’t think it was a power point throwing me of a little when I found out it was. I didn’t know that you could make something like that with power point, but I soon had to find out how to work it. I’ve worked with power point many times before so it wasn’t to bad for me to use.
When I started looking at the set up on the game I saw that there were links on the pages. I still haven’t looked into how the links work, but I’ll have to do the some other time. What it was that we really had to do was add new Q&A into the slides. Which wasn’t to bad doing just needed to replace their words with mine. I did find looking for topics a little hard. There are so many words that I could put in the power point, but I had to make to go in the right topics. It would have been easier if I had money to get the book sooner. After finding what I wanted to add it went pretty easy.
I feel this was a good idea to help the class study and learn the words. Back in high school we would play Jeopardy also to help us get to know words. That were not as hard as what is in the Patent, Copyright & Trademark Book. This way makes it more fun to learn the words, where most students don’t like to or haven’t read the book. I’m looking forward to next weeks class and to play this game.

week 2 EOC: lawyers

I have never had to use a lawyer, or know anyone that have had to. My knowledge on the matter is from what I see in movies and on T.V. I’m told in class that there not showing how they really are. I never knew if they lose they’ll don’t get paid, that part made me feel a little better if I ever had one and lost. From how there talked about in my class it seems that no one really likes lawyers, but I still think that they can be all that bad. It is there job this is how they make money, this is why I don’t really think that they can be all that bad. I’m sure that there’s a good hand fool of them that only want the money and don’t really want to help, but this can be said for many other people too.There isn’t is much that I can add to this topic. You ask how I feel and or what is it I think about lawyers. It’s a good thing in my eyes that we have them, but one thing I’ve seen that has upset people is the money. Lawyers cost you so much making me almost think I do we even need them, but then they can be very helpful to your case. Maybe if they didn’t cost and arm and a leg they wouldn’t have such a bad rep. Also if it really came down to it I still think if I had the money for one that I would use a lawyer. It would be better to have one and win, beside if I’m understanding it right I would have to pay if I lost but as I said I still don’t know all the info. I just hope when the time comes for me to have one everything will go fine.