Steven Pham's Legal Blog

After the bells rang, the whistles blew, the confettis dropped, and the fan fair is over, what will happen to the economy?  The fact of the matter is, our country has been so stressed and the financial resources drained, that anything positive immediately after the election is over is propably not realistic.  What is realistic […]

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Now, I am no financial analyst and can only opine based on what I curently see in the real estate, financial market, and the banking industry.  With that being said, the state of economy today is largely as the result of the Fed’s failure to monitor, regulate, and properly manage the federal banking system and […]

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In this ever fluctuating economy, everyone has been anxious and worry about their investment and retirement accounts, especially those that watched their portfolio dropped as much as 30% last week, and rebound again at 10% this week.  Whether one should hold on to his/her investment depends on a variety of factors; of which, one’s age […]

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About 2 weeks ago, I recieved in the mail something that gives most of us a shrug, a jury summon.  Trying not to think about it, avoiding it, I shoved it with all the bills, junk mails, and the like on my desk.  At 11:00pm last night, my wife had a wise idea that we […]

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The recent passage of the $700 Billion bailout by the U.S. government signals that this is a time of uncertainty.  While most people would agree that the bailout would help the financial industry from failing and going into bankruptcy, experts are not certain and disagree on how much it would help some of these failing […]

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For years, the right-winged conservatives have been screaming for the government to step-up enforcement of illegal immigration.  They attribute illegal immigration to the lack of jobs, claiming that jobs were taken by illegal immigrants who are willing to work for less by getting pay under the table.  To be fair, it is reasonable to assume […]

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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Exxon Valdez case in which it limited the punitive damage to equal the actual damage for $507.5 million.  The court reversed the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling that the $2.5 billion in punitive damage award, roughly 5 times the actual damages, holding that the punitive damage award […]

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Previously, I wrote an extensive blog regarding drafting resumes.  In that article, I stated that, “a well written and organized resume would get you the interview, which would land you a job.”  Although that may be true, an equally important part of drafting your resume and submitting it to potential employers would be a well […]

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Today, a Federal District Judge, the Honorable Sam Lindsay, ordered a permanent injunction prohibiting Farmers Branch, a Dallas Texas suburb, from enforcing Ordinance 2903 which was passed by a 2 to 1 vote to prohibit apartment complexes from renting to undocumented aliens.  A group of property management companies, residents, and advocacy groups filed suit in […]

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One of the primary responsibilities of a Real Estate Transaction Attorney is to draft and to prepare necessary legal documents for the purchase and sale of the real property.  These documents include but are not limited to preparing the Residential Contract Agreement, the Commercial Contract-Improved Property Agreement, Deed of Trust, the Warranty Deed, and other […]

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