Authenticating Electronic Legal Materials: UELMA & Beyond
“Several states, including California, have enacted the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Learn about best practices, authentication technologies, and advocacy efforts from state officials, government relations experts, and law librarians:
Friday, January 9, 2015
Gallagher Blogs has a post about managing the lawyer’s (or law student’s) public face:
Screen Star or Social Media Trainwreck?
From HeinOnline: “The Universal Citation Guide, 3rd ed. recognizes the current practices of legal researchers who often consult an electronic research tool without ever seeing a print volume of a reporter or code sitting on a library shelf.”
“…. As states publish primary documents on their own web sites and researchers utilize a wide variety of options to access legal materials, it is necessary to have a universal system of citation that helps users locate information across all formats, platforms, and publishers….” [Link to HeinOnline blog post and order information.]
We have lots of OLR blog posts for the public about Oregon Small Claims Courts (SCC), but this particular OLR blog post addresses the most frequently asked SCC questions from Oregon attorneys:
Small Claims Courts? County Circuit and Justice Courts will have on-site or website information about their respective Justice & Small Claims Courts, including forms, FAQs, court rules, etc.
Current CLEs? Check with OSB, OSB sections, MBA, and OLI for Small Claims Court CLEs for current MCLE credit.
The Lawbook Exchange has put a call out for used law books. See their latest Want/Need list and contact information below.
(You can also link to our How to Dispose of Used Law Books guide, which is getting ready for an update.)
“The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Central Courthouse Community Survey
“Multnomah County is well on its way to replacing the Central Courthouse.
The current courthouse, located on Southwest 4th Avenue in downtown Portland, was built between 1909 and 1914. Today, it is both structurally and functionally obsolete. The building does not meet current seismic codes, is overcrowded and presents serious safety concerns for the public due to poor separation of criminal defendants from judges, witnesses and court personnel….” [Link to Survey.]
The 2014 edition of Oregon Statutory Time Limitations is available on BarBooks.
Oregon lawyers have access through the bar association and others through the county law libraries that subscribe to BarBooks.
(In the past one could purchase a print copy of this book. We don’t know yet if this one will be available in print or digital format for purchase and use outside of BarBooks.)
The MCLE Rule and Regulation amendments requiring elder abuse reporting credit are effective January 1, 2015.
Read the FAQ at the OSB website.
“…. A subtle, calculated business principle enabled by today’s electronic technology and increasingly used by businesses and government is to move work to customers….“
From: NCSC’s “Multnomah County, Oregon, Circuit Court New Central Courthouse Planning and Space Programming Final Report,” August 2014
Context: “…. 1.2. Customer-Centric, Customer-Friendly Work Processes
Read story at: “Harper Lee, ABA Journal fiction prizes announced,” by Victor Li, ABA Journal, Sept. 2014
Previous OLR blog post on this topic.
Oregon Legal Research Blog