User:Lawyerdude

Lawyerdude is the trademark of Attorney Douglas Palaschak He grew up on the perfect farm near Kinsman, Illinois. His brother Greg farms it now. He is an Engineering Graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana, consistently ranked one of the the best engineering schools in the world, home of the mythical Hal 9000 of 2001, A Space Odyssey. There he was an honors student. He marched in The Marching Illini, one of the world's best Marching Bands. He began his career as a Registered Professional Engineer having consulted for the U.S. Navy, Mobil, and Exxon. He conceived and designed subsea machinery for the U.S. Navy. He performed the buckling analysis for the riser tubes and contributed to the design of a giant seafloor drilling template for a quarter mile tall oil rig presently in service in the North Sea. He has been a licensed lawyer for nearly a quarter century. He passed the California bar exam in 1983. His Juris Doctorate degree is from Ventura College of Law. He maintains approximately 1200 legal articles on the internet. His areas of expertise are: Licenses, Rights, and Privileges, and their use as Instruments of Oppression; Criminal Defense; Defense of drug, sex, traffic, and other malum prohibitum crimes; Internet-driven Improvements in the Efficiency of Litigation; Empowerment of Pro Se Litigants; Bankruptcy; Systems analysis.