Law

No one can understand what I say. I jokingly tell clients that if they could understand attorneys, it would be a lot harder for us to collect our fees.

Yet being an attorney is all about speaking a language that normal people don’t necessarily understand. The law aims for precision and specificity, but it often means confusion, even for the attorney.

When you are dealing with an attorney, the first thing you should do is immediately interrupt her (or him) if you don’t understand the words hitting your eardrums. I’ve been playing the lawyer game so long that words trip off my tongue and I don’t even realize that people have no idea what I’m saying. When you say, “based upon the DMI and liquidation analysis” often enough, you forget that it isn’t even human speech.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal judge has sided with plaintiffs arguing that Utah's law against panhandling is unconstitutional and shouldn't be enforced.

NORTH OGDEN -- Email exchanges reveal extensive discussion among several city council members about cutting employee benefits before a change of heart at the last minute the day of a Jan. 24 council meeting.

ROY -- Pawn shops will be few and far between in Roy, as city leaders plan to pass an ordinance that will limit pawn shops to one per 10,000 residents.

Almost everyone diligently strives to protect their tangible property -- be that a home, a cherished automobile, a wedding ring or an almost limitless number of other objects. Whether the value of such property is sentimental, financial or both, the property is important to us.

A desire to maintain ownership of even intangible works we create seems inherent when we are in school. We desire credit for what we have accomplished academically, usually receiving that recognition in the form of praise or good grades. In a professional sense, inventors, novelists, playwrights, composers, musicians, actors and computer programmers, to name just a few, want to safeguard the ownership of their tangible and intangible property and to receive the rewards produced by the commercial use of such property.

NORTH OGDEN -- The city is getting in line with the feds on rules and regulations for group homes.

OGDEN -- Matthew David Stewart, the suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting of a police officer and the wounding of five others, has hired defense counsel.