Visit our Oregon Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course Materials in Law Libraries blog post for links.
And if you want to speak out on the future of CLE independent-study (i.e. borrowed and shared CLE course materials), read OSB President Tom Kranovich’s column in the August/September 2014 OSB Bulletin.
The following Oregon County Law Libraries have in-library public, or staff-assisted, access to OJIN, OECI, or ACMS (court dockets). (But these locations do not necessarily have access to the full-text of filed documents. You may need visit the Circuit Court records offices for those documents.)
Contact information for the following Oregon county law libraries is at the OCCLL website.
Clackamas (OJIN & OECI)
My first (and truly sad) Oregon Legal Research blog post was written 9 years ago – and this is post number 3,122. I’ve come a long way since then, with lots of help from co-workers, managers, and most of all, the fabulous Legal Information to the Public people at Tim Stanley’s Justia, who brought us out of the blogging dark ages, with technical, hosting, and moral support.
We need to start planning for a 10th birthday celebration!
No, Virginia, you can’t believe anything you read “on the Internet,” except of course that there is a Santa Claus.
And, from the Net for Lawyers blog: “The ‘Death’ of Judd Nelson, Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, et al: The Importance of Verifying Sources on the Internet”
‘Announcing the Winner of the “Anything But Law School” Scholarship: Louise Kelly‘
(Previous OLR blog post about this scholarship.)
But don’t forget that musicians and other artists also need lawyers! (Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.)
State v. Lewis (A152266, 2014) Multnomah County Circuit Court (111235241)
“We conclude that the state failed to present sufficient evidence that the victim in this case suffered “physical injury,” as required by ORS 163.160(1)(a)….
As noted, ORS 163.160(1)(a) provides that, “[a] person commits the crime of assault in the fourth degree if the person * * * [i]ntentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes physical injury to another.” “Physical injury” is, in turn, defined, in turn, as “impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.” ORS 161.015(7). Defendant contends that the state failed to present sufficient evidence for a rational trier of fact to have found, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the victim suffered either “impairment of physical condition” or “substantial pain” from having her hair pulled out. We address each contention in turn….
Just because landlord-tenant law is state-specific and local law for most of us mere mortals doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent treatises and resources on the subject for those times we need to read about multi-state landlord-tenant practices and policies. If that is where your research is taking you, mosey over to the LLLoC blog post:
From the PLF Law Practice Management blog: “I Say Of Counsel You Say …” (posted 10/13/2014)
“Of Counsel relationships remain a strong area of interest for lawyers who are drawn to the idea of creating a professional affiliation. In that quest, there are many misunderstandings about what an of counsel relationship is ….” [Link to LPM blog post.]
The Oregon Law Practice Management blog says it best:
I could use this case to teach an entire course on Oregon legal research to lawyers, law students, legislators, and self-represented litigants:
City of Damascus v. Henry R. Brown, Jr. (A156920)
“ARMSTRONG, P. J.
Oregon Legal Research Blog