If you haven’t checked out the Oregon Law Practice Management website recently, it’s worth a visit.
Beverly Michaelis is a Practice Management Adviser with the Oregon Professional Liability Fund (PLF).
Nancy Bergeson: Ardent Advocate Lecture Series
Speaker: Colleen Scissors — Remembering Defense Basics: Building Trust and Humanizing Our Clients
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Portland, OR
“.…Nancy Bergeson was a career-long public defender whose legal acumen was matched only by her uncanny ability to empathize with her clients….” [Link to OCDLA announcement.]
Did you know that the FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts website includes “Animal Health” notices?
On June 15, 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court adopted a new rule:
APR 28, entitled “Limited Practice Rule for Limited License Technicians”
You can link to the text of the new rule and the final order from:
For more information on animal law research, see our new Animal Law legal research guide. As always, if you need to find a document quickly on the law library’s website, please see the Document Index. All of our legal research guides are available in the Subject Guides section of the law library’s website.
“Clemency Clinics: A Blueprint for Justice,” by Ken Strutin, LLRX, June 17, 2012
Excerpt: “Clemency (mercy), pardon (absolution), commutation (substitution), amnesty (forgetting), and reprieve (suspension) are drawn from the language of compassion. And today, they operate in a scheme of constitutional rights that overarches and subsumes notions of mercy and leniency. Thus, it is the constitutional architecture of clemency that provides the basis of relief for the wrongly convicted as well as the rehabilitated.” And yet, there is no right to counsel or institutional representation for the convicted seeking pardons and commutations, generally speaking. Pro bono attorneys, independently run projects, and law school clinics have from time to time filed clemency petitions for those unable to afford counsel. But in the absence of a right to appointed counsel in all cases, clemency petitioners are left to their devices and can only hope for assistance from the outside world….” [Link to full LLRX article.]
(The section on STARTING A CLINIC starts about 1/3 down the page.)
Lawyers and librarians who buy legal books and databases rely on the stupendous “Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual” and we welcome the latest 2012 edition.
You can read more about this peerless buyers’ guide and legal reference tool at the New England Law Press website.
“The CIR is an innovative way of publicly evaluating ballot measures so voters have clear, useful, and trustworthy information at election time.”
The Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review Commission (aka CIR) website can be found at the Healthy Democracy Oregon website where you can read about CIR’s origins. (But they clearly need a year-round blogger 🙂
If you want to track initiatives that will appear on the November 2012 ballot, use the Oregon Secretary of State Election Division’s Initiative, Referendum, and Referral Search engine. You can search measures from 1998 to the present, but you’ll need to get a little more creative if you want to find the text of pre-1998 measures.
Oregon v. Moresco, Court of Appeals, A144016, filed June 13 2012.
“Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for giving false information to a police officer, ORS 162.385(1)(b), arguing that the trial court erred in denying her motion for a judgment of acquittal because no rational trier of fact could have found that the officer to whom she lied about her identity had asked for her name for the purpose of arresting her on a warrant. We reverse. ….” [Read full case.]
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: “Shared a Dropbox folder? Don’t forget!” posted June 13, 2012.
Excerpt: “Surprisingly, I have seen this happen several times. Someone and I share a Dropbox folder as we work on a joint project. Six months or a year later, that someone starts loading documents into the shared folder that clearly are not intended for me. Has the person forgotten that the folder is shared? Has the person forgotten with whom the folder is shared?
Inadvertent sharing is a real danger for lawyers as more and more of us use services such as Dropbox ….” [Link to full blog post.]
Oregon Legal Research Blog