From Gallagher Law Library blog: Chinese Legal Citation Guidelines:
‘”Citation Guidelines for Chinese Language Materials” is a handy guide created by UW Law School Ph.D. students …. [T]he new guidelines provide interpretations of Bluebook rules for Chinese legal citation, plus detailed examples showing good practices...”‘
Read the Oregon Law Office Management blog post: Encryption: Essential Best Practice or Much Ado About Nothing? and find, among other tidbits, a link to “C’mon, C’mon, C’mon, Let Me Show You What It’s All About: Encryption ABC’s, Easy as 1-2-3.“
OJD’s Oregon eCourt Implementation News website will keep you posted on where and when eCourt is going live and on related news stories. It’s fun watching it grow and spread, not like a virus but like an oasis in a desert. Water, we need water! Data, we need online data!
Many, many years ago (2006!) I challenged readers of this OLR blog with a question AND promised to post an answer: “Do any and all of these rules allow for “out of cycle” amendments: UTCR, SLR, ORCP, and ORAP?” I can’t find a 2006 blog post that would have answered the question so here is my “I’m still learning” answer and corrections are welcome:
UTCR (August 1st) — Qualified. See UTCR 1.050(1)(c).
SLR (February 1st) — Qualified. See ORS 3.220(2)(b).
The new Oregon Legislature’s website goes live Oct 1, 2013. This is great news for legislative and legal researchers (and government wonks, too).
1) Superseded ORS, 1953 – present: Legislative Counsel been posting their superseded digital ORS files and soon all the superseded ORS images scanned by the Washington County Law Library, 1953-1993, will be added to the Legislature’s database. (Now you can find those superseded statutes from the Bills/Laws pages of the Legislature’s website, but we’re not sure where they’ll reside in the update. Maybe the same place or not. Either way, research is a grand adventure!)
2) Click on the Legislature’s New Website Going Live October 1st link for a list of many more updates.
Oregon Law Practice Management has a detailed blog post on “How to Fire a Client.”
If you have or care for children, Safe Car dot gov is mandatory reading and in Oregon, so is Safe Kids Oregon.
Hat tip to this Oregon attorney’s website/blog, where I saw this blog post:
Oregon Child Endangerment Cited in Tigard Car Incident
Kids might be the ones to ask, but we all want to know!
Read about the Twin Bucket Toilet system at PHLUSH. (Thank you to the Washington County Health and Human Services folks for their Buzz Newsletter PHLUSH story (on page 2).)
And if you want the lighter side of Disaster Preparedness, watch this 90 second very funny American Red Cross video: The Kit You Don’t Want To Have
The Digitization Projects Registry of U.S. Documents is an easy place to find hidden treasures!
Legal and Regulatory, Arts & Humanities, Business, Natural Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and more!
“The Digital Registry is a directory listing of U.S. Government publication digitization efforts. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive listing of all these digitization efforts….
Some online research really lends itself to easy keyword searches, e.g. HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance Checklists (but you still have to read the laws – no shortcut there)
Another easy word search if you are researching a new topic and want to explore the legal literature: libguides [subject]
For example, try these in your favorite search engine:
Oregon Legal Research Blog