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OSB PLF is holding their practical skills CLE for new admittees Nov 2-4. Go to their web site for more details: www.osbplf.org.
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Why don’t Google and Yahoo start with non-copyrighted material instead of getting into food fights with copyright holders? The legal community alone could keep them busy scanning for the next decade with government documents, briefs, and much, much more if you include retrospective collections. And once the Age of Secrecy is over (perhaps in 2008?), imagine how many more documents must be scanned to put them back in the public domain where they belong.
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OREGON COUNTY LAW LIBRARIES: Oregon solo and small law firm practitioners are very lucky though many don’t know it. There is a public law library in just about every county. That library may be a wall in a county office, a 5,000 sq ft facility, or a large room in the local university library, but at my last count, 16 of those Oregon county law libraries have excellent basic and current law book collections and qualified law library staff with access to Lexis or Westlaw and a network of law librarians near and far who seldom leave any reference request unfilled. Our regular patrons swear by our services whether it be for meeting room space, CLEs to check out and use for MCLE credit, for online searches, and much more. (We’re also edgy, opinionated, and funny, as are many law librarians – what more could you want, apart from the promised Love and Affection awaiting us all out there, if we can tear ourselves away from the work we love long enough to pay attention.)
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Oregon appellate court briefs for both the PERS and Defense of Marriage, aka Same-Sex Marriage ,(Li v Oregon, dkt # S51612) cases are being microfilmed as I write. (Both opinions are in 338 Oregon Reports.) Many of the briefs for Li are online (ACLU web site among others), but not all of them. There are 6 public law libraries in Oregon that get the microfilmed briefs (after we finish microfilming them) and you can contact them for copies. The State Law Library and Multnomah Law Library also keep bound volumes of the paper briefs. We (Washington County Law Library) keep loose paper copies for a while and could likely arrange to scan them if necessary, i.e. if you need lots of briefs and don’t want to go blind reading them on microfilm or get carpal tunnel syndrome photocopying thousands of pages.
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Wonderful and heartwarming story about an illiterate Brazilian book collector at the Library Link of the Day, here. Makes my own passion about law libraries pale by comparison, though in the spring my garage does overfloweth with recycled law books waiting for pick-up by worthy solo and small law firm attorneys.
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MILITARY AND FAMILY LAW: Military law is heating up especially for us law librarians. The latest issue of ABA’s “Family Advocate” devotes almost the whole issue to The Military Divorce, plus some very useful new Bankruptcy Act information. I was looking at it and one of my regular attorneys practically snatched it out of my hand. It had an article on a subject he was researching that very moment here in my law library. A nice aha moment for me.
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ROBERT AMBROGI’S BLOG: Robert Ambrogi’s web site may drive me crazy what with its gray on blue screen , but he is fun and smart (not unlike Ernie the Attorney). Ambrogi points to an excellent story on the Open Source Constitution, so if you are in need of a laugh, go to http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40990 or directly to Ambrogi’s web site at: http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html
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“Solo and small firm conferences spring up all over.” See Jim Calloway’s law practice blog at:
http://jimcalloway.typepad.com/lawpracticetips/
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CATALOGING A SMALL LIBRARY COLLECTION: Need to set up and catalog a small collection? We’re trying this: http://www.librarything.com/.