"I'm going to jail...hopefully so that others won't."

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin - July 4th, 1776

In four short days Stephanie Landa a fun loving,compassionate friend to many in LA will be body searched by prison guards and then ordered to put on her prison jumpsuit. Ms Landa, now sixty, faces up to 3 1/2 years behind bars This is just sick!

Today we are having a going away party and at that time we plan to show Stephanie her new FaceBook group and all the cool people that support her. Please join and please let Stephanie Landa know that you support her. "Give us our Landa back"

Thanks in advance,& Peace

Allison

"I'm going to jail...hopefully so that others won't." Stephanie Landa - Five days before her prison sentence begins (2006-12-30)

A cool blurb in the ABA Journal

FROM THE DECEMBER ABA Journal
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Beyond the talk: The trends, programs and gadgets that add punch to your practice

Top Ten in Tech

By Jason Krause

Web 2.0

A lot of people use the term Web 2.0 even though there’s no agreement about what it means. It could be one of those buzzwords that come and go, but the phenomenon behind it is real—the proliferation of free or inexpensive publishing tools that allow anyone and everyone to have a Web presence. With blogs, podcasts, social networking sites like MySpace and video Web sites like YouTube, anyone can be a digital star. Robert Ambrogi from Rockport, Mass., and J. Craig Williams from Newport Beach, Calif., have become nationally known legal experts through their Web logs and Coast to Coast, a free podcast (an audio program the attorneys post on the Internet).

And Beverly Hills lawyer Allison Margolin made a three-and-a-half-minute video for YouTube about her practice and her position on issues such as marijuana laws, getting her noticed by commentators all over the Internet.


The whole article

A fellow Columbia Grad's Review

Why Fast Food Flick Flopped



By Gabrey Milner

By the time this story goes to press, you won’t find “Fast Food Nation” in theatres anymore. The movie, based on the best selling book was as huge a failure as the book was a success. How did this happen? Sure, the marketing wasn’t very good or pervasive, but an indie movie doesn’t rely on ads the way that the latest James Bond flick does. It opens small, gets a few people to see it and leave the theatre excited, then relies on them to tell all of their friends that they have to see this flick. No one had that reaction to, “Fast Food Nation,” because it was adapted to the big screen in a way that didn’t make good use of what cinema has to offer...

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CRAZY NICK by Scott Beddome

You could say that Nick Won is crazy and he'd likely agree. His hope and vision as expressed by his new venture, PC Jjang’s, definitely qualifies him. But before you write him off, you may first want to listen to his story..
Nick's been through a transformation that is much more than the 60 pounds he lost and his new six pack abs. Nick sees things through different eyes, or so you'd think, that maybe they were actually removed and replaced with different ones that have built in rose colored lenses. His new vision is so clear and pretty it draws you in. If you are a young person in this impersonal, inhuman age of disconnect, he is especially concerned....

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A John Lennon tribute by Allison Margolin

Today is the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's death. It is especially significant in these times to remember the message he propagandized through billboards in the time before his death: War is over if You Want It.

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Attention Defenders of Freedom:

Medical Marijuana Defendant Stephanie Landa has been summoned to appear in federal court on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006. You are strongly encouraged to write a kind letter to the judge on behalf of Stephanie immediately, attend her rally and court hearing and forward this message widely. More details below.

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Finding Your Way Home

By Sherri Margolin

As I sat in an fairly difficult, long hold variation of supta virasana, the instructor , who enjoyed elaborating on the philosophy behind why holding my body in a position, that most reasonable people would call uncomfortable, is good for us. She said that we should think of settling into the pose as finding your way home.

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Marijuana Update

UPDATE

LA'S DOPEST ATTORNEY IS COMING OUT MONDAY NIGHT

Last year, I think it was, I was asked to be on a show for Queer TV



Sandra Bernhardt was the co-host, and she asked me questions about the world of criminal law. I loved being on the show. The transvestite who did the news report embraced me and everyone treated me as if I was a hero. I also loved the format; during commercial breaks these great girls dressed like strippers/cage dancers did a little dance. The whole atmosphere was very rave-like, minus the drugs.

Apparently, the show, "Queer Alternative" has been bought and the episode I'm on will air Monday Nov. 6th. Check it out.

ALLISON'S AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL FEATURE

You’ve Never Seen Anyone Like Allison Margolin — Could YouTube Be for You, Too?

By Peter Darling

When we think of lawyers in the movies, a few standouts automatically pop to mind. There's Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Tracy and Hepburn in Adam's Rib, of course. And Tom Cruise did it twice, in A Few Good Men and The Firm. But the latest Beverly Hills film about a lawyer takes a decidedly different twist—it stars a real lawyer, it's self-produced, it's online, and it's free. is it just another Hollywood story or the future of legal marketing?

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FAREWELL DAVID CONN

David Conn, 56; prosecutor won convictions in Menendez case
By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer

David Conn, the former prosecutor whose successful retrying of the Erik and Lyle Menendez murder case in 1996 won accolades and then an abrupt demotion, has died. He was 56.

I Loved David Conn

ALLISON'S FRIEND KARA STEVENS GUEST BLOGS

Sixteen Layers of Make-Up


By Kara Severson


Being poor in LA is a major drag. Didn't I just read something somewhere about how there is no middle-class in LA but somehow it works for the city? Either you're a millionaire or you're starving while working 60 hours a week. I, unfortunately, am on the high-end of the latter.

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Aids-Write

The DEA is having an anti-cannabis conference on Halloween in San Diego where they effectively shut down all medical cannabis dispensaries within the county including delivery services. Two patients have died since the closures – starvation and dehydration.The marijuana helped them eat, stay on other medications, stay alive.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL GIVES ALLISON SOME INK

Weeds, Esq.?
Posted by Peter Lattman

Allison Margolin calls herself Los Angeles’s “dopest attorney.” The 28-year-old graduate of Beverly Hills High, Columbia University and Harvard Law School has her own blog and promotional video on YouTube. Today, the Los Angeles Times helps her cause with a colorful profile of the ambitious young criminal defense lawyer. “I plan to make a lot of money,” she tells the LAT.

Margolin aggressively promotes her practice on radio advertisments, movie screens, and newspapers around L.A. “Need warrant recalled?” her ads ask. “Want to smoke pot on probation? All criminal defense, from drugs to murder. Harvard Law, affordable.”

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LA OBSERVED ON ALLISON- SHE'S BACK!

(Kevin Roderick over at LA Observed gave me some added exposure for my upcoming ad that will appear Wednesday, October 18th in the Onion)

Monday, October 16 2006

She's back

With the demise of the Los Angeles Alternative in print form, Allison Margolin needed a new place to advertise her services as L.A.'s Dopest Attorney. She found one. Ads for the city's most media-famous, Harvard trained, dope-smoking, Playboy-aspiring defense lawyer start running in The Onion beginning Wednesday. She has updated her look a bit and added a new slogan: "Get to know an attorney like never before"

BUSH BRINGS BACK MARTIAL LAW

By Allison Margolin



Today is the craziest day in news because President Bush has admitted what some of us already knew: that this nation is under martial law and it's getting worse. President Bush announced that he wants and will ask congress to agree that convictions based on coerced evidence is admissible. In the words of the article in today's LA Times, Bush's Plan Allows Coerced Evidence, A1, this system is "military style."
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ALLISON'S TABLOID PAL JANA RAUSH GUEST BLOGS

Tabloid Fever? Gimme a "Break"!

By J Rausch

All over town, celebrities jeer at "tabloid fever," as if all of Los Angeles is infested with some outrageous desire to puncture their inner souls. As if we’re sitting at home waiting for a self-proclaimed family man to reveal his shrine of inhumanity, or for a child star to fall. Sure, tabloid companies salivate at these stories, eager to de-sensationalize and defy what has become known as "Hollywood glamour." ...continued

LA TIMES GOES HIGH TIMES TODAY!

LA Times profiles my life, and documents a day I won a decision involving one hundered-fifty marijuana plants, and also got an order granting the return of the plants.

LA'S DOPEST ATTORNEY

"The original LA's Dopest Attorney Youtube

"Allison Margolin calls herself Los Angeles’s “dopest attorney.” The 28-year-old graduate of Beverly Hills High, Columbia University and Harvard Law School has her own blog and promotional video on YouTube. Today, the Los Angeles Times helps her cause with a colorful profile of the ambitious young criminal defense lawyer.." Wall Street Journal

WILL PLAYBOY GIVE ALLISON A BUZZ

By Allison Margolin

I love "Girls Next Door,” the reality show about Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends.Some people criticize that, thinking it's superficial or a prurient display of nudity. But as someone who has wanted to be in Playboy before I even understood the word sexuality, the show is a welcome insight into the lives of those who make a career of their sexuality. ....Continued

WHAT WOULD LENNON SAY - BY ALLISON MARGOLIN

By Allison Margolin

It’s funny yet typical that 30 minutes ago I wondered what I was going to write about, and then I heard that the DEA had shut down several cannabis clubs and were waiting at the homes of doctors known for recommending marijuana....continued