Visit the Trimet Apps website.
Now if I could only have one (just one! not too much to ask, is it?) work day without a train or bus (the one I’m riding or the one in front of me) breaking down and turning my commute into a 2-hour each way day.
High school, college, and law students: the following quick tips might do the trick:
1) If you’re a current law student, visit your law school’s career services or student affairs office. If you plan to take a bar review course, check out the discounts and fee waivers that are available to law students.
2) If you’re a current or future law student and want a brief primer on the bar exam in a specific state, visit that state’s Bar Admissions website. In Oregon, visit the Oregon State Bar Admissions website and look for the Bar Exam Information links.
The National Archives has a Teaching with Documents: Observing Constitution Day website. You can also visit the Library of Congress U.S. Constitution website.
Justice Bedsworth’s take on these matters makes as much sense as anyone’s – and maybe a little more. And he’s a real judge! (Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.)
OC Lawyer, A Criminal Waste of Space: September 2012: Schools by the NCAA
Excerpt: “…. So we, greenhorns all, learned the rules of evidence and the complexities of human nature by trying misdemeanors. If you dropped the blood vial in a driving-under-the-influence case and watched it shatter on the floor—as actually happened to one of my contemporaries—you were not turning a puppy-raper loose on society. If you over-prosecuted a petty theft case, it was unlikely your mistake would change the earth’s rotational rate.
On September 13th, 2012, California Governor Brown signed SB1075 into law, enacting the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act in California (UELMA).
From Law Librarian listserv:
“SB1075 provides that the California Constitution, the state statutes, and the California codes will be authentic and permanently available online to the citizens of California. The bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Rules, leaves open the option to include additional categories of material through amendment and it establishes that the Legislative Counsel Bureau is the official publisher.
Marketplace Money ran an interview with Ron Lieber, author of the recent NYT story on discharging student loan debt in bankruptcy:
1) Marketplace Money (9/7/12) podcast: Student loans and bankruptcy
2) Ron Lieber’s (9/31/12) New York Times article:
Last Plea on School Loans: Proving a Hopeless Future
An Oregon Law Practice Management, 9/10/12 post aims to get you to think outside the big city box:
New Solos: Go Where You’re Needed
Lawyers aren’t the only ones who are confused, befuddled, and bedeviled:
Yahoo highlights a terrific Monster dot com consumer alert article:
Oregon Legal Research Blog