Category Archives: Legal News & Commentary

Blogging Attorneys Make More Money (Have Greener Cars, Happier Marriages, More Free Time)?

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I love these kinds of blawger stories.

The hypothesis may also be supported by the experience of lawyers who post a lot of information on their websites and, contrary to popular belief that it is bad to “give it away free,” have found that it draws traffic to their websites and can attract clients.

However, woe to the attorney who blogs badly.

June 6, 2013 ABA Journal: “Firms with blogs have seen increased revenue; is there a correlation? (video)”

Links to earlier survey data: “Burgeoning Blogs: Can They Give BigLaw Firms an Edge?”

But please, do not expect More Free Time. Ha ha ha.

Book Bytes on Bike Box: How? Follow the Digital Crumbs

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From: “Seattle Public Library Puts Books on Bikes”: “The library is a zebra-print lunch box tucked into the back of a pedicab and stuffed with old-fashioned paperbacks and digital LibraryBoxen.”

To: Mobile Mini Libraries Pepper SXSW

To: LibraryBox

To: PirateBox: “Private and Secure: PirateBox is designed to be private and secure. No logins are required and no user data is logged.”

To: PirateBox DIY (Make one yourself.)

Wikipedia’s Bot article.

The Politics of Parking (Book)

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There is nothing like a Parking dispute to bring out one’s inner monster, whether the metamorphosis takes place in a faculty meeting (or parking lot), a mall parking lot in December, or in front of one’s home & hearth. There is now a serious book on the subject.

For a parallel view on the Zen of Parking, and in a more humorous mode, read Calvin Trillin’s 2001 novel, “Tepper isn’t going out,” but for a more prosaic examination of Parking, here is the title of that new book:

“Politics of Parking: Rights, Identity, and Property,” by Sarah Marusek

Beer Law? Oregon’s “Brewers Yeast” House Concurrent Resolution 12: Can Marmite be far behind?

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House Concurrent Resolution 12, designating an official microbe of the State of Oregon, has moved through the 2013 Legislature with the speed of a freshly drawn IPA through a Cerevisaphile.

(If that direct link to the resolution’s PDF doesn’t work, search for the 2013 HCR 12 from the Legislature’s bills and laws page.)

The microbe in question? Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as brewer’s yeast or baker’s yeast.

As someone brought up “with” Adele Davis and as a Marmite fan, I can only hope that our Oregon brewers will come up with their own American version of Marmite.

Hawaii is the 5th State to Enact UELMA, and 1st to include Judicial Documents

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Hawaii Governor Abercrombie signed UELMA into law on April 11th.  It is Act 11 of the 2013 Legislature.

Hawaii is the 5th state to enact UELMA, following North Dakota where it became law last week. Hawaii is the first state to include Judicial information in the law, and it will be a model for other states looking to include court opinions and other Judicial materials.

UELMA is on the Oregon Legislature’s radar this 2013 regular session. Read more about UELMA in Oregon.

Washington County (Oregon) Bar Association New Lawyer Social Event, 4/19/13

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The Washington County Bar Association New Lawyer Division (WCBNLD) is having its second meeting: Friday, April 19, from 5:30-7pm, at the law offices of Helzer, Cromar and Schneider, LLP, 4900 SW Griffith Dr #245, Beaverton OR 97005.

This meeting will be a relaxing social and educational event and an opportunity to express your ideas about future events for the WCBNLD.

A  Washington County Assistant Law Librarian and State of Oregon Law Library Reference Librarian will also be on had to talk about free and low-cost human, print, and online legal research resources at Oregon public law libraries.

Not a WCBA member? The first year of membership in the Washington County Bar Association is free! Show up and sign up.

Please RSVP by contacting Nicole Schneider, Kathy Proctor, Arthur Saito, or Joel Geelan. (Contact info at the Oregon State Bar, Member Directory or at the WCBA website.)

Oregon’s Peer-to-Peer Download [John and Jane] Doe Lawsuits

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You can find a list of the Oregon’s recent BitTorrent and Peer-to-Peer (download) cases, copies of complaints, and other information at the Oregon Intellectual Property Law’s February 26, 2013, post:

List of Oregon Download Cases – 2013.

The Oregon Intellectual Property Law website/blog.

You can find more information at Justia’s “Copyright Cases filed in Oregon” webpage and the Crowell Law firm website.

Read more about IP addresses at the Wikipedia IP address article.

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