Oregon Legal Research Blog“Simply Google”: If you are a Google fan, you might like this Simply Google. I found it through Jim Calloway’s Practice Tips Blog, always a source of useful information.
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Law School Graduation Gifts
The Best Law School Graduation Gift: After 20 years in this business of law librarianship, I have made the transition from recommending that you give your new lawyer an excellent legal dictionary or legal research treatise to recommending, with utter and absolute seriousness, that you give your new lawyer a copy of DSM-IV-TR (the new one isn’t expected out until after 2010). If they want to further their education on the subject, and earn a few CLE credits in the process, OSB had a March 2006 CLE Seminar called “Representing Clients with Personality Disorders” (receiving rave (not raving) reviews from my library’s patrons) and there was also a 2004 CLE Seminar on “Working With Difficult People.” Trust me. This will be money and time well spent.
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Not Everything Is (or should be) Online (aka NEIO): Librarians know that not everything is online, but an awful lot of people, even those who should know better (university presidents and law firm senior partners come to mind), don’t. One thing you really and truly may not want on a public database is court records. The Virtual Chase has a few stories about recent events in the Online-Going-Offline (not to mention the Free-Going-Fee) trend in its June 29th TVC Research Alert News.
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Jordaan Clarke v OHSU: The briefs for this Oregon Court of Appeals case, docket #124560, are available as PDF documents and can be emailed to you. Contact the Washington County Law Library, lawlibrary@co.washington.or.us.
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Digital Appellate Court Briefs: The Washington County Law Library has been scanning Oregon appellate court briefs since January 2006. More than 5,000 briefs are available and searchable by keyword and docket/case numbers, including:
138 Or App to present: selected briefs
179 Or App and 201 Or App: complete volumes
315 Or to present: selected briefs
332 Or: complete volume
All briefs for PERS, Measure 37, Li, and O’Donnell-Lamont cases
The database is not publicly accessible. Call or email the Law Library with your request for specific briefs, including your name, the case docket number and cite (if available). Briefs can be sent via email or CD. Contact: Email lawlibrary@co.washington.or.us, or telephone 503-846-8880. There is currently no charge for this service.