Oregon Legal Research Blog28) Direct unrepresented litigants to attorney referral services and information on how to work with attorneys (fees, preparation, etc.) 29) Referrals to government agencies & nonprofits (housing, disabilities, grandparents, elder law, consumer law,…
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Legal Research in the Time of Covid-19, Part 1: General Legal Resources
card. Major Consumer Protections re: Covid-19 – National Consumer Law Center; includes free access to Surviving Debt (2020). Many news publishers, and some scholarly databases, are offering…
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Oregon Consumer Law: Parking Tickets, Tax Collectors, Weekend Tow Jobs, and a “Notice of Tort Claim” Appeal
There are excellent consumer law websites all over the web, but sometimes you just need the local touch and a local story. This is because a lot of…
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UPL and Oregon’s New Public Law Library Employees
New public law librarians (MLS & MLS/JD) and new public law library employees usually have to tackle questions of Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) and the dreaded “Forms” questions…
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Law Librarians, Lawyers, Legal Publishers, and the AALL Consumer Advocacy Caucus
If you are new to the Law Librarian Consumer Advocacy Caucus discussion (and Petition ) and want some history and to enter the conversation: 1)…
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Big Law, Big Bucks, Big Data, Big Ideas: Better Mousetrap or Sucker Punch?
aid, that’s not likely to lead to for-profit startups,” Dolin says. “But in consumer law, there’s plenty of room for startups there. And when you start talking about consumer law,…
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Find Help With Student Debt without Digging a Deeper Hole
…rein in industry abuses, protect borrowers’ rights, and advance economic opportunity for the next generation of students.” 2) The National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project (SLBA) is…
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Consumer Law News and Advice in Oregon
The Oregonian’s Business section of the daily print paper has had such good consumer law and small business stories and information lately that I’m wondering why they call it…
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Book: “Uscrewed: the consumer’s guide to getting what you paid for”
In my law library we field consumer law questions, as do most librarians in public libraries, law or otherwise. Open up the phone lines to a call-in show on…
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Consumer Law Resources for Older Adults
The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) has a webpage with “ Brochures for Older Consumers.” It’s an excellent list of resources. There is one brochure called INTERNET…