What do you tell lawyers who ask you about blogging? Top of my list are these:
· Read other lawyers blogs (the good, the bad, and the ugly – content and style matter)
· Read some of the best of the lawyers who write ABOUT blogging. I include these to start with, but there are others:
You can now go online to register your wish to become an organ donor. For more information, go to:
** Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (HB 3092), 2007 Oregon Laws 681
An editorial (commentary/opinion) in the 1/25/08 Oregonian, “A costly wreck in need of a cleanup,” by Steve Tackett-Nelson, President of the Oregon Psychiatric Association, about mental health care in Oregon:
Excerpt from full article:
“Over the past 30 years there has been a quiet movement to criminalize being mentally ill while indigent. No law was enacted, no edicts issued. But the unplanned effect of isolated events has been a gradual drift in public policy. And unplanned drift can have expensive consequences; remember the last voyage of the New Carissa.
The Oregon Divorce Blog has a post about collaborative divorce, which is fairly new to Oregon. Divorce lawyers know about it, but not many of their future clients do.
I link to Oregon Legal Topics blogs and Oregon lawyer’s blogs – see the Oregon Legal Research sidebars to the right – including topical blogs on Employment, Insurance, Business Litigation, Divorce, Labor & Employment, Constitutional law, and Sustainability.
I’ll add more as they are created and as I locate them. I link to Oregon lawyer blogs that have topical and substantive legal postings (including news and commentary) and try not to link to blogs that are primarily for marketing purposes or are too heavily weighted to the personal rather than professional. This is a judgment call – my judgment – and you may challenge my decision if you wish.
Yes, I know the personal leaches into the professional when blogging, and vice versa, and there are wonderful legal blogs that do both, but I can’t just blog (blog is both a verb and a noun) since I blork.
OJD Media Release (summary) is here and full opinion is here.
Full case name is: In the Matter of the Marriage of JAMES H. BOLDT, Respondent on Review, and LIA BOLDT
The Willamette Week, on 1/22/08, ran a story that lists 8 candidates on the shortlist: Gordon Smith’s Choice for Federal Judge: The Candidates
Here is some information on federal court judges, history and appointment process:
The Jan. 20th, 2008, Oregonian article, by Aimee Green, Check out Adult Care before you Check In, has a useful “Fact Box.” If that “Fact Box” disappears over time, here are the resources listed:
Oregon’s Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman — 503-378-6533 or 800-522-2602 — will look up annual inspection reports for callers.
For information about a home’s complaint history or to make a complaint: Oregon Department of Human Services, 800-232-3020.
Real research means digging deeply and not all holes you dig are perilous ones. Some might save your life.
Oregonian, Jan.20th, 2008, State Keeps Slide Risk to Itself, by Michael Milstein.
Excerpts from article:
This is probably not a best-seller amongst my solos and small law firm practitioner law library patrons, but if that rare question arises, maybe this database could help me find them the answer.
Empirical Legal Studies Database
And what is an ELSD? From their own description, here’s an excerpt:
Oregon Legal Research Blog