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From Free Government Information (FGI) (and check out their blogroll):

“Sunlight releases Scout to help track legislative/regulatory process”

“Today, our pals at the Sunlight Foundation released Scout, a new tool that allows you to create customized keyword alerts to notify you whenever issues you care about are included in legislative or regulatory actions — at both the state and federal level! They’ll also soon release their Open States tool to target the legislative process of all 50 states….” [Link to FGI and Scout at Sunlight.]

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Oregon Life Insurance Finder Tool (LIFT)

“The Oregon Insurance Division is pleased to help you search for the life insurance policy or annuity contract of a deceased family member. The division maintains a database of all the life insurance companies that sell policies in Oregon. If your family member lived in Oregon at some point, we will relay your request for a policy search to see if there is a match….” [Link to Oregon DCBS website.]

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Today we’re featuring the new website for the Douglas County (Oregon) Law Library.

Oregon county law libraries offer lots of services, individually and as an association (we share information and resources), and one of the most popular services offered is conference room space for attorneys who use them to meet with clients and with each other, assemble documents, spread out a table-full of research materials, make private phone calls, etc.

Each county law library has its own conference room policy (usually set from on high, i.e. our respective county administrative offices) so call the County’s Law Library directly to inquire about access and reservations.

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Oregon State Sheriff’s Office Association (OSSA) (a tax-exempt nonprofit) website states:

“OSSA’s sole function in relation to Sheriffs’ Sales of real and personal property is to post legal notices as authorized by ORS 18.924.”

Link to ORS 18.924.

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It has been said that most lawyers are frustrated writers, but, as has also been said, so are most writers.

Frustrated writers will know about Anne Lamont’s “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,” which is a title more metaphorically-melodious than the prosaic “Blog-post by Blog-post: instructions on writing …” (which isn’t really metaphorical at all), but … whatever works for you. Blog-post by Blog-post(ing) may do the trick and here are some tips:

How to Blog a Book.

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Leave it to a retired librarian / city manager to find a good deal:

“Highway Robbery”

Excerpt: ‘…Yesterday I picked up a virtually new set of Cobra Irons at a thrift store.  There are 9 clubs in a set of irons.  Had I ordered this set new last year on the internet it would have cost me 900 dollars.  Here at the Thrifty Thrift, I was expecting a charge of 50 bucks.  I was wrong.

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1) There are many kinds of willful blindness, personal, financial, criminal, etc. A recent story about the Sandusky trial mentioned the following book. I started reading it over the weekend and it’s hard to put down:

“Willful Blindness,” by Margaret Heffernan

2) If you need another good summer read, try this one:

“People before profit: the inspiring story of the founder of Bob’s Red Mill,” by Ken Koopman

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How to Find a Case Online (using free resources)
(if you have the citation)
 
It isn’t always possible to use a physical reporter to locate a case using a citation.  If you don’t have access to a bound reporter, here is a quick overview of a few of your free options for locating cases online.
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