Yes, it’s that time of year again (to be honest, it’s a little past it) and the Law Librarian Blog October 25th posting, “Just in Time for Holiday Shopping” comes to our rescue with some ideas about how to reduce the number of those deadly mail-slot droppings.
Court reporters have to be some of the nicest and most patient people you’ll ever find in a courtroom. They also perform magic when transcribing their recordings. Heaven knows lawyers, judges, and witnesses mumble, garble, and otherwise mangle our fair tongue.
Evan Schaeffer’s Trial Practice blog (as opposed to his Legal Underground one), has a post, Treating Court Reporters Right:
“An article titled “What court reporters want” from the Illinois Bar Journal contains these tips from reporter Andrea Trippi Else—“ (Read post and link from here.)
Jerry Boone‘s column today (Oct 24th) in the Oregonian is on photo radar in Beaverton: “Who’s the boss of photo radar?”
I’m sure we’re not the only library in the state that sees its fair share of people wanting to know how to fight a photo radar ticket. One way is here, but there are others, most of which begin with reading the law.
Now, am I not just the Queen of Understatement ….
The Multnomah Bar Association has posted the results of their “Generation Gap” survey, “Bridging Generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Net Gen.” From the introduction:
“The Multnomah Bar Association (MBA), hearing concerns among attorneys about the “Generation Gap,” with some experienced attorneys questioning the work ethic of newer attorneys and some newer attorneys expressing displeasure about the life requirements imposed by their firms, decided to launch a project to understand the challenges and find solution . . . at the very least to replace complaining with constructive discussion.
The Managing Partners and Young Lawyers Section of the MBA formed a joint subcommittee to formulate and implement a plan to study the issue, report findings, and make recommendations. The committee members discussed their own experiences and observations during a lengthy process of developing a membership fact-finding survey. The survey was sent to 3,609 members of the MBA, 1,325 or 36% of whom responded …”
Julie Tripps’ column in Sunday’s Oregonian, 10/21/07, “IRS could toughen on like-kind exchanges,” is interesting to read next to the Oregon Supreme Court opinion from 10/18/07, Logan v Sivers (S54251). A Media Release summary is here.
A Legal Profession Blog 10/6/07 post on attorney positional conflicts links to this OSB formal ethics opinion, 2007-177.
I’m not sure how I missed AltLaw, but thanks to all the others (including this one) who did not miss it, here you go. Altlaw, in their own words:
“The law is meant to belong to the people, but it can be surprisingly hard to find. Case reports, a major part of the laws of the United States, are hard to get at, and even when on the Internet, rarely searchable. To get full access you generally need either a library of law reports, or an expensive subscription to an online database, which can cost hundreds of dollars per hour.
AltLaw is a small effort to change that—to make the common law a bit more common. AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. It is a resource for attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public.”
I’ve blogged before here at Oregon Legal Research about free and low-cost legal research databases, so add AltLaw to the pool.
This post, The Perfect Client, from a May 25th, 2007 post at the Oregon Divorce Blog is getting a fair amount of play. A New Jersey family law blogger likes it too.
Excerpt from the Oregon Divorce Blog post:
What a lawyer thinks of as a “perfect client” in the domestic relations sense is a client who helps the process of the dissolution, custody, or support matter along. We know how hard this process is to be going through, but it can be a much more difficult process the longer it drags on — and a much more expensive one for you. (Although we like getting paid as much as anyone else, we believe we should be problem-solvers, not problem-creators.)
See recent updates (e.g. 2/10/11), but also click on the Home Alone label in the sidebar or the bottom of this post.
Some of the most frequently asked questions by parents (of librarians!) are.
When can I leave my children home alone?
How old do my children need to be before I can leave them alone?
How old does my oldest child need to be before I can leave him/her alone with a younger sibling?
You (!) are now limited to 15,000 words in your merits briefs (rule 33.1). See 10/10/07 post at Wayne Schiess’s Legal Writing blog.
What can I say (and some of you know exactly what I would say, if I could)?
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