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Just like the Rule of Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice,
There might soon be a Rule of Law School Without Debt: Read, read, read.
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Gift, Luxury, or Necessity: How to Buy the Tablet or e-Reader that Suits You
Public libraries have some of the best buyers’ guides for e-Reading devices. Check at your own public library or start with this one to find links to reviews, consumer tips, and more:
Washington County (Oregon) Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS), “Choosing a table or e-reader” (and check out their Library2Go help pages – or visit your own public library’s eBook pages)
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Toilets and the Law
Clean sanitation is an issue for lawyers, not just public health workers (and just about everyone else). Save lives, increase infant mortality, live longer: Every day is World Toilet Day.
The Gallagher Blogs post, Bathroom Humor with a Serious Message, links to several law review articles about the subject.
For more, visit PHLUSH (Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human), which is an all-volunteer advocacy group based in Portland, Oregon.
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Disease Outbreaks, Comets, War Monuments, oh my! Entertaining and Educational Government Apps
From a GovLoop blogger: 10 Most Entertaining Government Mobile Apps:
1) Solve the Outbreak, from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
2) NASA App: NASA’s official app enables you to discover the galaxies from the palm of your hand.
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Earn $1,000 – by NOT Going to Law School?
Anything But Law School Graduate Scholarship
The flip side of “too many lawyers“: Some reports estimate that 55% of attorneys are baby-boomers. If that % is correct, and the tail end of baby-boomer-dom was 1958, it’s quite possible we’ll need a lot of replacement lawyers really soon.
Some lawyers retire in order to do other things, but many lawyers will retire because the practice of law isn’t much fun anymore (e.g. legal research has become no “more than a google box on top of a legal database.”
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States Must Spend Millions for ID Law
Remember “unfunded mandates?” They never really went away so you may as well get reacquainted with them. (See also, National Conference of State Legislatures on unfunded mandates.)
Interesting story in the Salem (Oregon) Statesman Journal, 11/21/13:
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How to Preserve and Collect Cartoon Art
Is a cartoon library worth $10 million? You bet it is, if consider the history and the joy it contains.
The Cartoon Library at Ohio State University is a one place to start your cartoon preservation and collection research. Heaven knows archivists know about preservation of printed, and other, materials – and while heaven might look fondly upon archivists, it tests them mightily to see if they are worthy of persisting on such a quixotic journey. Talk about a dream job – a Cartoon Archivist. As Mark Twain apocryphally advised writers: make ’em laugh and make ’em cry. That’s good cartooning (and librarianship) in a nutshell.
And possibly just worth the long journey to Columbus, Ohio: Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) and Richard Thompson (Cul de Sac) will appear on the same stage in the Spring 2014 at Ohio State. Wowsers!
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Is 2013 your (Oregon) OSB MCLE Reporting Year?
The following Oregon county law libraries purchase and lend current OSB and OLI CLE course materials for independent study (and MCLE credit): Clackamas, Lane, Marion, Multnomah, and Washington.
You can find more information on borrowing county law library CLEs at the Oregon Legal Research blogpost: Oregon Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course Materials in Law Libraries
For information about the Washington County Law Library collection, visit our CLE Information pages.
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“Send Secure, Self-Destructing Messages with Wickr”
“Send Secure, Self-Destructing Messages with Wickr,” by Robert Ambrogi, Nov 5, 2013
Excerpt: “…. Lawyers have an ethical obligation to protect the confidentiality and security of communications with their clients. The more we learn about NSA snooping, the more we realize what a challenge that can be.
One option for secure communications is to skip the email and use the SMS messaging app Wickr, which is available for iOS and Android phones….” [Link to full LawSites post.]
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Three New Oregon Court of Appeals Judges Sworn In
I read somewhere that on November 12th, the following new Oregon Court of Appeals Judges were (to be) sworn in. If that is correct, here are our 3 new Court of Appeals judges:
Joel DeVore.
Erin Lagesen.