[How To Find Free Legal Forms]
Free Law InformationSample of a Power of Attorney Form
2008-03-31
You can view a free power of attorney sample online now of days nearly anywhere. Doing so will not gurantee it is a up-to-date sample though. Most free legal form websites rarely update their forms according to the new laws passed by the states legislature. Premium sites who provide online legal forms do.0 Comments | Link to This | Back to top
Free Auto Bill of Sale Sample
2008-01-06
Free auto bill of sale forms are rather easy to find on the internet. The problem is each state's legislature updates these forms everytime they pass a new law related to it. Therefore, most of the free auto bill of sale forms you'll find are either out of date or not specific to your state. That's why I just go to this link for auto bill of sale forms.
Free Auto Bill of Sale Sample
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*Warning, this legal form will probably not be valid in your state.
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Free Residential Lease Agreement Forms
2007-12-31
If your about to lease a home, apartment, or any other residential property then you need a residential lease agreement form. The landlord must make up a residential lease agreement to give to his tenant if he wants any kind of legal protection over his property whatsoever. To download free residential lease agreement forms you have to go to your states website, that is the only way to find them for free. If your having trouble finding the legal form on your states website then search for 'download law forms' and you'll be able to find a website to get your state's exact legal form.
- You can also download residential lease agreement forms here.
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Free Law Forms Online
2007-12-31
Finding free law forms online is something that will probably end up taking you all day. Finding your state's specific legal form for the specific task you want done is not easy. Thats why theirs legal services that keep an organized legal form database. These websites make finding law forms online a snap.
You can download law forms at LegalFormsBank.Biz. These forms will include instructions and everything you need.
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Download Free Legal Forms - Texas Power of Attorney
2007-12-31
The only way to download free legal forms from Texas is go to their state's website www.state.tx.us search for it and print it out yourself. I did a quick search but wasn't able to find it maybe you'll have better luck. I don't like to download the forms off the state website because their way too complex.
I would use LegalFormsBank.Biz for a texas power of attorney. Their forms come with instructions, which makes everything nice and simple just how I like it.
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Free Legal Form Database
2007-12-31
IRLG is a free legal form database that would be great If they just paid someone to keep their forms up-to-date. State's are constantly passing new laws which means you need new forms to go with those laws. When you try to use a out-of-date legal form it is no longer legally compliant, which means it is worthless. You will either just waste your money trying to file it or lose a case because of it.
The best legal form database is one that you pay for, this is because they hire someone to keep the form up-to-date and state compliant, atleast I know LegalFormsBank.Biz does.
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Free Bill of Sale Forms Online
2007-12-31
I hate to tell you but its impossible to find a free bill of sale form online. The courthouse doesn't even print you out one for free, they charge a fee. One time I did see a car website have a auto bill of sale form but It seemed like the webmaster just created it, with no legal knowledge, I don't think it was enough to be legally binding.
The best thing you can get to a free bill of sale form online is just to download one off a legal form database. These websites charge a small fee to cover their expenses for updating the legal forms, writing up instructions, calling the courthouse for new forms, etc. It is definately worth a few bucks to make sure you got the write form, plus its much easier with instructions, only a legal professional can fill out some of these forms their so complex.
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Free Forms for Power of Attorney for Children
2007-12-31
To get free forms for power of attorney for children you can spend all day searching your state's
website, or going to the courthouse which will make you pay a print fee. The print fee is usually about fifteen dollars but it depends on where you live. These forms come with no instructions and require a sophisticated legal mind to complete them.
The easiest way to file a power of attorney for children is to go to a site like Legal Forms Bank .Biz. Their you will find your specific state's power of attorney form for your child. Your form will come with instructions too. This makes it a breeze to file your own power of attorney form without a lawyer.
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Group to Sue FCC to Evaluate Wireless Broadband Service
2007-08-16
Federal Communications Commission is seeking to shut the door on a plan by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to offer free wireless broadband Internet service everywhere in the U.S., the chief executive of the group said. M2Z Networks Inc. issued a statement in which it said it would take the FCC to court in an attempt to force the agency to conduct a thorough analysis of the plan before it determined whether it would back it or not.
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Internet Called Battleground Against Islamist Extremism
2007-08-16
The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "The Internet is the new Afghanistan," Kelly said, as he released a New York Police Department report on the home-grown threat of attacks by Islamist extremists.
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Rove Leaving Bush Administration at End of August
2007-08-14
Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, announced Monday he will leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration. A criminal investigation put Rove under scrutiny during the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name. In a more recent controversy, Rove, citing executive privilege, has refused to testify before Congress about the firing of U.S. Attorneys.
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2nd Circuit Upholds Denial of Fees in Forfeiture Suit Involving Couriers
2007-08-14
Attorneys who represented claimants trying to recover money seized by customs agents in violation of the USA PATRIOT Act will not be awarded fees. The 2nd Circuit said attorneys John P. Donohue and David B. Smith are not entitled to the $157,888 in fees -- almost one-third of the money seized from three couriers who were trying to board a flight from New York to Pakistan. The attorneys represented two of the three men convicted in the smuggling and contributing claimants who sought to fend off a forfeiture.
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Law Student Scores Rare Win in 4th Circuit Gun Case
2007-08-14
A third-year law student accomplished what no other criminal appellate lawyer in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has managed: She won a reversal of a 15-year conviction for a felon in possession of a firearm based on the defense the possession was justified. Meghan Poirier handled the appeal as part of an appellate clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina. She argued the appeal just two days after graduation, according to the law professor who directed the clinic.
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N.Y. Federal Judge Enjoins 'No Tax' Group's Solicitations
2007-08-14
Two groups that disseminate materials purporting that people have a right not to pay federal income taxes are doing little more than "promoting an abusive tax shelter," a New York federal judge has ruled. Judge Thomas J. McAvoy permanently enjoined Robert L. Schulz and his two groups from continuing to make materials available and directed the groups to turn over to the U.S. government the names, Social Security numbers and other information about people who received the "Tax Termination Packages."
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BDO Seidman Ordered to Pay $170 Million in Compensation to Portuguese Bank
2007-08-14
A state court jury in Miami late Monday awarded $170 million in compensatory damages to Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo after its lawyer urged the panel to punish the national accounting firm of BDO Seidman for negligently overlooking fraudulent conduct in the failure of E.S. Bankest, a factoring company blamed for the largest bank fraud in Miami history. The jury also decided to award punitive damages, but must hear witness testimony before it can decide upon an amount.
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11th Circuit Sides With NASCAR in Logo Dispute With AT&T
2007-08-14
A ruling by the 11th Circuit cleared the way for NASCAR to prevent AT&T from featuring its logo on Jeff Burton's No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. The court said Monday in its order that AT&T lacks standing to challenge NASCAR's decision, and threw out a lower court's ruling that prevented NASCAR from stopping AT&T's plans. At issue is AT&T's desire to change the Cingular logo on Burton's car, which was grandfathered into a NASCAR and Sprint Nextel exclusivity agreement, to the AT&T logo.
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Three Strikes, and Qualcomm's General Counsel Is Out
2007-08-14
Qualcomm tapped former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam to replace Louis Lupin as general counsel Monday. Lupin's departure -- based on personal reasons, according to a company spokesperson -- comes on the heels of several legal defeats, including last week's scorching order accusing the chipmaker and its lawyers of litigation misconduct. The company said Lam, who came to Qualcomm last February as one of the federal prosecutors dismissed by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last year, will take over as interim GC.
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Court Reverses Suppression of Child Porn Spotted by Circuit City Workers
2007-08-14
A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has ruled that a common pleas judge shouldn't have granted the suppression motion sought by an alleged child porn enthusiast whose video collection was spotted by Circuit City workers installing a DVD drive on his computer. Reversing Judge Jeffrey K. Sprecher, the panel concluded that Kenneth Sodomsky had no reasonable expectation the purported child porn files on his personal computer would remain private when he took it in for an upgrade in October 2004.
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Is Power LogOn as Secure as Its Pitch?
2007-08-14
Access Smart has introduced a user authentication system which promises the advantage of smart-card security to solo practitioners and small law firms. John K. Waters unlocks the Power LogOn Password Administrator kit to see how well it delivers on its product pitch.
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Commentary: Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Firms Might Not Cause the Sky to Fall
2007-08-14
When Australian law firm Slater & Gordon held a public stock offering, many thought it'd be the end of the law profession as we know it. Now there's legislation in the U.K. that will permit firms there to issue stock. Georgetown professor Milton Regan Jr., however, says law practice is a profession and a business, not a profession or a business, and like it or not, potential competitive pressures mean that we're going to have to confront the question of nonlawyer ownership sooner rather than later.
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Beantown's Real Estate Boom Has Firms Jumping
2007-08-14
Law firms are cashing in on Boston's robust commercial and development market and adding real estate attorneys to collect the spoils. The building frenzy, coupled with brisk sales of high-rise buildings, is boosting revenue at the city's legal real estate strongholds. Elliot Surkin, the managing partner of DLA Piper's Boston office, says low office vacancy rates are driving the building surge. "We don't go home anymore, nobody has a family; we're very, very busy," Surkin quipped.
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Justice Kennedy to ABA: 'The Work of Freedom Has Just Begun'
2007-08-14
In an emotional address to the American Bar Association, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday implored the nation's lawyers to constantly re-examine their conduct to be sure they exemplify principles of justice and fairness and advocate for the rule of law around the world. Kennedy, who is nearing his 20th anniversary on the Court, received the association's Medal of Honor for a career of advancing the rule of law and advocating for improvements in the profession and administration of justice.
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New ABA President Emphasizes Shift Toward Public Service
2007-08-14
On Monday, the American Bar Association was set to "pass the gavel" from Karen Mathis to Preston Gates & Ellis Chairman William Neukom, who was sporting a button that read, "Not your father's ABA." Neukom says he wouldn't be taking the ABA's helm if he hadn't seen the association and the profession become more oriented toward public service and pro bono work. "I wouldn't have been interested in the job," Neukom says, if the ABA hadn't become "a clearinghouse, an engine" for change.
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SEC Is Preparing Option to Charge Former GC of KLA
2007-08-14
By the end of its fiscal year, the SEC's San Francisco office plans to have civil charges against another Silicon Valley lawyer under its belt. Several people briefed on the SEC's probe of Lisa Berry -- the former GC of KLA-Tencor Corp. and Juniper Networks -- said the commission is preparing to charge her in connection with schemes to backdate stock options at both companies. She would be the first executive in any of the 150-plus options investigations to be sued for behavior at more than one company.
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Latest Suit Against BAR/BRI Publisher Seeks an Open Market for Bar Exam Reviews
2007-08-12
The lawyer who filed an antitrust suit against the makers of the BAR/BRI bar review course that settled for $49 million earlier this year has filed another suit, which seeks an injunction that would open the market to competitors. The new suit alleges that BAR/BRI maintained its monopoly over the years by striking deals with or threatening other bar review courses. Eliot Disner filed the new suit on Wednesday on behalf of two incoming California law students who plan to take the California bar exam by 2010.
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Federal Judge Accused of Religious Bias
2007-08-12
A Florida attorney is trying to get U.S. District Judge William Zloch removed from two employment discrimination cases, claiming the judge is biased -- a notion strongly disputed by others. In a 110-page motion for recusal, Loring Spolter cites Zloch's hiring of several law clerks from Ave Maria Law School, a donation to the Roman Catholic school and his attendance at several junkets for judges sponsored by conservative organizations. Spolter filed 20 exhibits supporting his motion.
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Cruise Owners Ride 'Hog' Case Back to Trial Court
2007-08-12
Kilpatrick Stockton partners will cruise back to court on behalf of Harley-Davidson after a federal appeals court panel nixed a ruling allowing the operators of Hogs on the High Seas to book biker-themed cruise voyages. The ruling follows a summary judgment order dismissing the case at the district court level, sending it back for trial before the same judge. Last August a Wisconsin judge ruled that the organizer of cruises for motorcycle enthusiasts had not violated Harley's trademarked "H.O.G." acronym.
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Authenticating E-Mail Discovery as Evidence
2007-08-12
At some point, e-discovery needs to be converted into e-evidence for summary judgment or trial. Attorneys Beatrice O'Donnell and Thomas A. Lincoln suggest practical methods to employ the rules of evidence to confront the special admissibility problems posed by e-mail.
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Name Games Loom Large in Mergers
2007-08-12
Naming merged law firms is becoming less about egos and more about branding. Law firm leaders are becoming savvy marketers, trading in lengthy lists of deceased partners for succinct names that roll off the tongue and are easy to remember. "Prudent law firm leaders focus on the long-term resonance of a brand," says K&L Gates Chairman Peter Kalis, whose firm reserves its full name, Kirkpatrick and Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, for the fine print. "A brand sticks with you -- it's like a tattoo."
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Latest Associate Pay Hikes Leave Corporate Clients Cold
2007-08-12
While some law firms blame market demands for the latest associate salary increases, others cite pressure from clients, who expect firms to recruit graduates from the top of their class. But in trying to lure, and retain, fresh talent, firms have created resentment among corporate clients who want to stop their dollars from flying out the window. "At some point, we'll say we don't want any associates on our matters," said Steve Hantler, DaimlerChrysler's assistant GC for government and regulatory matters.
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4th Circuit Lifts Sanction Against Lawyers Who Peeked at Juror Notes
2007-08-12
The 4th Circuit has lifted a $14,655 sanction against the lead trial attorney for Ford Motor Co. in a personal injury case that was imposed as punishment for peeking at jury room notes at the close of the trial. The appeals court found no bad faith or abuse of the litigation process and no violation of the rules because the case had concluded and jurors were gone. The panel noted that the problem could have been avoided if the court clerk had retrieved the evidence and distributed it to the lawyers.
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Vinson & Elkins Acquires Bankruptcy Boutique Founded by Former Wachtell Partners
2007-08-12
Vinson & Elkins has acquired a New York bankruptcy boutique founded by former partners of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The five lawyers of Cronin & Vris will join Vinson & Elkins' New York office, where Dennis F. Cronin will become a partner and co-head of the firm's insolvency practice. Cronin & Vris served as Vinson & Elkins' counsel in the bankruptcy of Enron Corp., for whom Vinson & Elkins was primary outside counsel. The firm settled claims by Enron's bankruptcy estate last year for $30 million.
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Judges on ABA Panel Describe Living in Fear, Years After Unpopular Rulings
2007-08-12
More than two years after enraging right-wing groups by ordering Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, George Greer still peers nervously over his shoulder at times. In fact, the Florida judge told a rapt audience Friday, he even used an alias when he registered at his San Francisco hotel for the annual ABA meeting. Greer was one of four current or former judges who described how their lives were affected by their rulings in high-profile cases involving hot-button issues.
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Novell Owns Unix Copyrights, Judge Rules in SCO Case
2007-08-12
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah Central District found that Novell is the owner of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, dismissing SCO's charges of slander and breach of contract. The judge also ruled that SCO owes Novell for SCO's licensing revenue from Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.
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Judge Sticks it to Broadcom's and Doubles Patent Damages Against Qualcomm
2007-08-12
A U.S. district court judge tentatively doubled Broadcom Corp.'s $19.64 million damages award against Qualcomm Inc., the latest step in a patent infringement case between the chip suppliers. The decision was the latest in a series of legal setbacks against Qualcomm, which is embroiled in several legal battles with Broadcom and other companies.
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Thief Convicted After Being Spotted on YouTube Video
2007-08-11
A thief was convicted and fined after being spotted on a video posted on the Web site YouTube. The man was taped slowly circling the store, stealing a laptop computer, slipping the computer into his overcoat and stepping out of the store in the South Island town of Greymouth, local media reported.
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Video Sharing Site Files Pre-Emptive Suit Against Universal
2007-08-11
Online video sharing site Veoh has pre-emptively sued Universal Music Group, asking a federal judge to prevent the giant music label from filing its own copyright infringement action. Veoh Networks Inc., based in San Diego, filed the federal lawsuit, asking a judge to declare that the company has no liability to Universal even if individuals upload videos to the Veoh site that may contain music from Universal artists used without permission.
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Universal Music to Offer Downloads Without Copy Protection
2007-08-11
Universal Music Group said it will sell digital music from artists such as Sting, 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder without the customary copy-protection technology for a limited time. Tracks from thousands of albums will be available for purchase on the recording artists' websites and through several established online music retailers, although Universal is excluding Apple's iTunes store, the No. 1 online music retailer.
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British Lawmakers Seek More Control on "Lawless" Internet
2007-08-11
Internet companies, retailers and the government must do far more to protect people from the dangers of the "lawless Wild West" of cyberspace, an influential group of MPs said. In a critical report, the MPs said the government and industry have a "laissez-faire" approach to online crime that could lead to an "economically disastrous" loss of public confidence in the Internet.
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Idaho goes High-tech to Catch a Killer
2007-08-10
Dr. Karen Rudolph didn't have much time. Investigators had turned to the DNA expert after finding a knife with traces of blood in a suspect's truck. A few hairs were discovered at the crime scene hundreds of miles away, and authorities wanted to know if there was a link. Two days later, working on delicate equipment in a state lab, Rudolph had an answer: The DNA on the knife was a match to the hair strands.
The suspect was arrested and charged -- with poaching.
As the state's only wildlife DNA specialist, the 44-year-old Horseshoe Bend resident handles evidence for many of Idaho's animal-related cases.
Rudolph's job requires her to identify an animal based on a hunk of tissue, wayward tuft of hair, bone chip or dried splatter of blood.
In many cases, her work has helped prosecutors win convictions and encouraged defendants to plead guilty without going to trial, officials said.
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Jury Re-enacts Shooting
2007-08-10
Phil Spector and his wife somberly stood arm in arm Thursday as they watched jurors weave under crystal chandeliers, past a suit of armor and to the red-carpeted foyer in the music producer's mansion, where actress Lana Clarkson died.
In every room there were blowup photos that have been in evidence at Spector's murder trial, showing the scenes the jurors were viewing. There were several bloody photographs of Clarkson's body slumped in a chair in the foyer.
Some jurors, trying to duplicate the crime scene, sat in a replica of the chair in the position in which the actress was found on February 3, 2003, dead of a bullet wound through the mouth.
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Jose Carranza pleads not guilty on schoolyard slayings
2007-08-10
An undocumented immigrant pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and related charges in the execution-style slayings of three college students in a schoolyard.
The crime shocked residents of Newark, New Jersey, galvanizing them to express their outrage at the city's street violence.
Jose Carranza, 28, was formally charged in Essex County Superior Court with murder, attempted murder, robbery and various conspiracy and weapons offenses.
Bail was set at $1 million.
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Nacchio Judge “Ashamed” of Strip-Club Outing
2007-08-10
Edward Nottingham, the chief federal judge in Denver fresh off the Joe Nacchio trial, made headlines in the Mile High city last night. 9News reported that Judge Nottingham's wife ended their three-year-old marriage after she discovered more than $3,000 in receipts from a Denver strip club. Here's a story from the Rocky Mountain News.
9WantsToKnow said the information is contained in transcripts of their divorce proceedings. "I'm ashamed and mortified just telling you that is the Diamond Cabaret . . . a topless establishment," he testified. He also reportedly said he couldn't recall how he could have spent so much at the strip club. "I had had a lot to drink . . . and I don't remember," he said, according to the transcript.
The transcript also reportedly showed that Nottingham was asked about credit card charges for a Web site called Ipayfriendfinder.com, which he called "a dating site - an Internet dating site." Of a $150 charge he made to Ipayfriendfinder.com, Nottingham reportedly said, "I'm embarrassed to be even talking about this. I think you pay extra to get certain features, such as if you upload a picture or - I don't even recall."
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Vigorous Defense of the Day: DUI Lawyers Want Source Code
2007-08-10
Ever since we posted on the escapades of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the Law Blog has been intrigued by our nation's DUI legal subculture. Today, we've come across another notable angle into this quirky world. CNET reports that a drunk-driving defendant in Minnesota argued that in order to get a fair defense, he needed the source code to the , a breathylizer used to test his blood-alcohol level, so he could fight the charges in court. Last month the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and the source code will be turned over the defendant's attorneys.
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Campos Decamps From SEC . . . For Cooley?
2007-08-10
SEC Commissioner announced today that he intends to leave the agency next month for the private sector. Campos, one of the agency's Democratic commissioners, was appointed by President Bush in 2002. The second Democrat on the commission, Annette Nazareth, will leave by year-end, according to Newswires. Here's the SEC release; and a post from Race to the Bottom Blog. "Commissioner Campos has worked tirelessly, both at home and abroad, for the protection of investors and the betterment of U.S. markets," said SEC Chair Chris Cox. "At a time when international collaboration among securities regulators has been key to our enforcement and investor protection missions, Roel Campos has led the way."
Read the rest of this article here - Posted: August 9, 2007, 2:56 pm
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A Father-Son Chat We’d Love to See on YouTube!
2007-08-10
WSJ editor Martin Peers and WSJ reporter Kevin Delaney recently put their collective talents together and graciously threw the Law Blog the following post: His father is doing battle in a massive lawsuit with the company. But that's not enough to stop Philippe Dauman Jr. from going to work for Google.
Dauman's dad, Philippe Dauman (pictured, left), is none other the CEO of Viacom, which earlier this year lodged a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet titan. Dauman, a partner at Shearman & Sterling before going in-house at Viacom in 1993, didn't mince words about Google at the time:
"It's hard for us to believe that [Google] has any desire to protect our content," Dauman said in a March interview. In the still-pending suit filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Viacom alleged that the availability of copyright works on Google's YouTube video sharing site "is the cornerstone of [its] business plan" and accused it of using technology to "willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale . . . and profiting from the illegal conduct of others as well."
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The Trials of Ave Maria School of Law
2007-08-10
Much has been written in recent weeks about Ave Maria, the town outside Naples, Fla., that Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan has built as a sort of utopia for devout Catholics and others (click here here and here for coverage of the Florida town and university). But a recent series of events at the Ave Maria School of Law - founded by Monaghan in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2000 - threaten to throw a hurdle into the completion of his vision, raising the possibility that the school might not retain its accreditation when it moves to Florida, set for 2009.
The controversy, which has pitted the school's dean, Bernard Dobranski, against a cadre of faculty members, took off in 2006, during a period when the school's board of governors began to look seriously at moving the school.
In April of that year, the majority of faculty issued a resolution against Dobranski and sent a formal complaint to the American Bar Association, alleging he excluded them "from any meaningful role in deciding the propriety of a re," intimidated faculty members into not openly opposing, and prevented faculty from participating in major parts of the school's education program, among other things. More recently, tenured faculty have said Dobranski ended their salary raises and removed them from key faculty posts. (For background on the mess, here's a WSJ opinion column about Monaghan, and a post from Catholic legal blog Mirror of Justice.)
As a result of the tumult, two professors and two lecturers have left the school since last year, and one professor took a leave of absence.
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Google Joins Group Fighting Linux Patent Pressure
2007-08-10
The Open Invention Network, an organization created to help take the pressure of patent litigation off Linux developers, has added Google to the ranks of its contributors. The move is a major progression for the OIN: Google is not only one of the world's biggest users of open-source software, but it is also the group's first end-user member.
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Hacker Claims Cracking DRM Software for Netflix Downloads
2007-08-10
Netflix is under attack from a hacker who found a way to keep the company's downloaded movies. The hacker claims to have cracked the digital rights-management software encoded in Netflix "Watch Now" movies, enabling those who follow his step-by-step guide to keep the movies indefinitely.
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French Teen Arrested for Posting Harry Potter Translation
2007-08-10
Police arrested a teenager suspected of posting his own translation of the latest Harry Potter novel on the Internet weeks before the official French release, the book's publishers said. The 16-year-old schoolboy, from the Aix-en-Provence region in southern France, was taken into custody by a police anti-counterfeiting unit and later released, said a spokeswoman for the Gallimard publishing house, which handles the French editions of the novels.
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