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2021-09-09: Updated: 2021-09-09 10:29:46 True Grift: Financial Crime: Bad Blood (Theranos), Madoff, Cuckoo’s Egg, Watergate, Etc

By Laura Orr

2021-09-06: Updated: 2021-09-06 08:09:17 Vaccination Insurance Programs and Covid-19 Vaccines

By Laura Orr

2021-09-06: Updated: 2021-09-06 07:59:28 September is Library Card Sign-Up Month

By Laura Orr

2021-08-23: Updated: 2021-08-23 09:49:55 Improve Your Legal Information Buying Skills and Save Time and Money

By Laura Orr

2021-07-22: Updated: 2021-07-22 09:01:15 Office for Access to Justice to be Established in the U.S. Department of Justice?: A Bill in Congress: HR 4501

By Laura Orr

2021-06-29: Updated: 2021-06-29 12:09:44 Human Composting Law: Oregon 2021 HB 2574 (Effective July 1, 2022)

By Laura Orr

2021-05-25: Updated: 2021-05-25 08:51:22 Oregon Law Will Require High School Students Receive Civics Education Before They Graduate

By Laura Orr

2021-05-24: Updated: 2021-05-24 12:36:14 Job: Classroom Law Project (CLP): Is Looking for a Program Manager

By Laura Orr

2021-05-19: Updated: 2021-05-19 10:25:22 Presidential Action on Access to Justice (Memorandum, 5/18/21)

By Laura Orr

2021-05-17: Updated: 2021-05-17 14:50:03 Reading of the Bills: Oregon Constitution Art. IV §19

By Laura Orr

2021-04-27: Updated: 2021-04-27 14:49:39 OHSU to pay more than $2,000 per hour to investigators

By Laura Orr

2021-04-22: Updated: 2021-04-22 09:51:47 Law Day, April 26, 2021 (Oregon)

By Laura Orr

2021-04-22: Updated: 2021-04-22 09:41:59 Eviction Diversion Lab Webinar: April 28th, 2021 (NCSC)

By Laura Orr

2021-04-12: Updated: 2021-04-12 10:23:46 Oregon 2021 Redistricting Info and Supreme Court Opinion

By Laura Orr

2021-03-31: Updated: 2021-03-31 09:40:44 Citation and the Law, a Virtual and Free Symposium (April 22 and 23, 2021)

By Laura Orr

2021-03-13: Updated: 2021-03-13 13:00:29 Legal Icons: free, field-tested, and easy to use for print and web

By Laura Orr

2021-02-09: Updated: 2021-02-09 11:03:06 Legal Self Help: Expungements, DACA, and Gender Marker Changes Legal Assistance and Clinics (Oregon)

By Laura Orr

2021-02-01: Updated: 2021-02-01 11:03:32 Another View of the Textualism and Statutory Interpretation Theory Cathedral (Jot Well)

By Laura Orr

2021-02-01: Updated: 2021-02-01 10:46:01 Oregon Diversity Legal Job Fair March 9-10, 2021

By Laura Orr

2021-02-01: Updated: 2021-02-01 10:38:39 Filing Income Taxes in 2021: Oregon and Federal Forms and Assistance

By Laura Orr

2021-01-30: Updated: 2021-01-30 11:13:13 COVID-19 law help: Oregon legal resources during the pandemic

By Laura Orr

2021-01-19: Updated: 2021-01-19 10:35:12 Can I Leave My Kids Home Alone? Child neglect and related crimes in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2021-01-18: Updated: 2021-01-18 13:44:20 Legal Guides For Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2021-01-15: Updated: 2021-01-15 12:25:38 Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guide: Free and Low-Cost Lawyer Advice

By Laura Orr

2021-01-15: Updated: 2021-01-15 11:58:22 The Future of Money in Oregon Politics: Recommendations for policymakers (PDX City Club)

By Laura Orr

2021-01-14: Updated: 2021-01-14 10:49:45 Book: Oregon’s Legal Guide for College Students

By Laura Orr

2021-01-11: Updated: 2021-01-11 11:55:38 Law Library of Congress Webinars for New Lawyers, Legal Researchers, and Librarians (January 2021)

By Laura Orr

2021-01-11: Updated: 2021-01-11 11:49:56 Dream Job for the Right Person: Rare Book Librarian (Yale Law School)

By Laura Orr

2020-12-29: Updated: 2020-12-29 11:12:35 Plagiarism and Twitter: More from Plagiarism Today (Jonathan Bailey)

By Laura Orr

2020-12-29: Updated: 2020-12-29 10:51:20 Copyright Law: Why You Can’t Copy a Recipe Book (beSpacific and Plagiarism Today)

By Laura Orr

2020-12-29: Updated: 2020-12-29 10:41:20 Librarians may now qualify for FOIA fee exemption

By Laura Orr

2020-12-17: Updated: 2020-12-17 09:54:04 Job Opening (Oregon): Open Access and Government Information Librarian

By Laura Orr

2020-12-13: Updated: 2020-12-17 09:42:41 Protests, Journalists, First Amendment, and the Little Red House (Portland, OR)

By Laura Orr

2020-11-23: Updated: 2020-11-23 17:02:24 Wildfire/Disaster Legal Resources

By Lee Van Duzer

2020-10-19: Updated: 2020-10-19 12:10:36 Oregon State Bar Admits New Attorneys, October 2020 (Congratulations!)

By Laura Orr

2020-10-13: Updated: 2020-10-13 14:28:08 Public Law Library Mission Statements (with a side of “Portlandia” and a failed Mission Alignment)

By Laura Orr

2020-09-17: Updated: 2020-09-17 09:48:55 U.S. Constitution Day, September 17, 2020

By Laura Orr

2020-09-04: Updated: 2020-09-04 15:23:22 Federal Civil Disorder Law and the Commerce Clause

By Lee Van Duzer

2020-08-24: Updated: 2020-08-24 13:02:53 Homeschooling, Civics Education, and Extraterrestrials

By Laura Orr

2020-08-17: Updated: 2020-08-17 10:20:20 Oregon General Assembly (Legislature) Special Sessions: a Brief Civics Lesson

By Laura Orr

2020-08-06: Updated: 2020-08-06 11:49:34 Portland Protests: Exclusive Naked Athena of Portland Interview (Unrefined Sophisticates)

By Laura Orr

2020-07-23: Updated: 2020-07-23 11:27:48 Oregon Covid-19 Testing Site Finder and FAQs

By Laura Orr

2020-07-18: Updated: 2020-07-18 12:22:07 How to Follow Portland, Oregon, Black Lives Matter and Related Protest News

By Laura Orr

2020-07-17: Updated: 2020-07-17 13:08:03 Protect Your Art: When Art is Your Business (PUGS, August 2020)

By Laura Orr

2020-07-16: Updated: 2020-07-16 13:14:11 Oregon Notaries Public Go Online: Required Remote Notarization Training​

By Laura Orr

2020-07-13: Updated: 2020-07-13 11:20:11 Does Your Chosen Candidate for Oregon Elected Office Know Local Government Budgeting Law?

By Laura Orr

2020-07-06: Updated: 2020-07-06 13:52:52 The Other Lottery (not Shirley): Selecting Presidents, Legislators, and Judges By Lottery

By Laura Orr

2020-06-29: Updated: 2020-06-29 12:12:50 Oregon Legal Research Website and Blog Succession Plan and History

By Laura Orr

2020-06-29: Updated: 2020-06-29 10:09:09 Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guides

By Laura Orr

2020-06-23: Updated: 2020-06-23 08:10:46 How Long Should You Quarantine Library Books (vis a vis Covid-19)?

By Laura Orr

2020-06-11: Updated: 2020-06-11 08:50:40 “Big Money Bought Oregon’s Forests. Small Timber Communities Are Paying The Price” (OPB)

By Laura Orr

2020-06-05: Updated: 2020-06-05 12:28:48 A Declaration of Conscience: Senator Margaret Chase Smith on the U.S. Senate: “the Four Horsemen of Calumny-Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear”

By Laura Orr

2020-06-05: Updated: 2020-06-05 12:11:50 Supreme Courts’ (Oregon and U.S.) Opinions on Oregon’s Non-unanimous Juries

By Laura Orr

2020-06-05: Updated: 2020-06-05 11:44:45 Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guide (May 2020 update)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-31: Updated: 2020-05-31 09:15:50 A Few Civic and Religious Leaders Marched WITH Protesters

By Laura Orr

2020-05-30: Updated: 2020-05-30 12:51:13 Minnesota Murder and Manslaughter Statutes: Criminal Code, Chapter 609 (2019)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-29: Updated: 2020-05-29 09:01:48 Libraries Prepare to Answer Civil Legal Questions in Times of Crisis (60 minute webinar)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-29: Updated: 2020-05-29 08:24:40 Oregon Voters: Track Your Mail-In Ballot

By Laura Orr

2020-05-21: Updated: 2020-05-21 17:39:42 Hasan Minhaj Wants to Help You Not Get Kicked Out

By Lee Van Duzer

2020-05-15: Updated: 2020-05-15 09:48:12 Promises, Promises: Understanding Contract Law: Online Course, PUGS (Oregon)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-12: Updated: 2020-05-12 10:07:05 Oregon Law Forces Jury Trials To Continue, Increasing Virus Risk (OPB article)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-11: Updated: 2020-05-11 11:57:57 In Defense of Covid-19 Contrarians (NZ, a Spinoff article)

By Laura Orr

2020-05-05: Updated: 2020-05-05 12:12:15 Oregon County Law Libraries “Open” for Legal Research Assistance

By Laura Orr

2020-04-29: Updated: 2020-04-29 10:29:28 DACA Renewal Clinic (Portland, Oregon): May 1, 2020

By Laura Orr

2020-04-21: Updated: 2020-04-21 11:08:35 Lawsuits are Expensive, Doubt is Free: Vaccines, Viruses, and “I’m not a doctor, but …”

By Laura Orr

2020-04-17: Updated: 2020-04-17 10:04:49 Oregon Covid-19 Resources: Student Well-being Resources and Senior Loneliness Line

By Laura Orr

2020-04-17: Updated: 2020-04-17 09:53:16 Oregon Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (ORVOAD)

By Laura Orr

2020-04-17: Updated: 2020-04-17 09:48:26 Secure Your Websites, People! Bare Minimum: SSL Certificate

By Laura Orr

2020-04-09: Updated: 2020-04-09 10:47:57 Teachers and Parents: Civics Digital Resources for Remote Learning

By Laura Orr

2020-04-07: Updated: 2020-04-07 13:43:23 Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My

By Laura Orr

2020-04-03: Updated: 2020-04-03 14:25:56 Oregonians, Share and Record Your Pandemic Stories

By Laura Orr

2020-04-03: Updated: 2020-04-03 14:18:35 How to Report Illegal Covid-19 Treatments and Merchandise in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2020-04-02: Updated: 2020-04-02 10:03:54 How to Evaluate Covid-19 Resources: the Good, Bad, Puzzling, Outdated, Rumor, Un/Official, and the Profiteering

By Laura Orr

2020-04-01: Updated: 2020-04-01 17:46:23 Oregon limits residential and commercial evictions during Covid-19

By Lee Van Duzer

2020-03-31: Updated: 2020-04-01 09:38:13 Legal Research in the Time of Covid-19, Part 2: Covid-19 Legal Resources

By Laura Orr

2020-03-31: Updated: 2020-04-01 09:39:44 Legal Research in the Time of Covid-19, Part 1: General Legal Resources

By Laura Orr

2020-03-30: Updated: 2020-03-30 11:24:51 Oregon Covid-19 Resource Page (Senator Merkley)

By Laura Orr

2020-03-30: Updated: 2020-03-30 11:18:32 Oregon Chief Justice Updates Judicial Branch Covid-19 Response

By Laura Orr

2020-03-29: Updated: 2020-03-30 11:27:13 What I learned today: Why did HR 748 (2019) become the Two+ Trillion Dollar C-19 Bill (2020)?

By Laura Orr

2020-03-25: Updated: 2020-03-25 11:23:06 Coronavirus Legal Research Guide (Law Library of Congress)

By Laura Orr

2020-03-25: Updated: 2020-03-25 11:09:29 Covid-19 Assistance in Oregon: Where to Begin if You Don’t Know Where to Begin

By Laura Orr

2020-03-25: Updated: 2020-03-25 11:02:18 Where to Report Price Gouging in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2020-03-25: Updated: 2020-03-25 10:48:07 Fill Out (or In) Your Census Form and Win a Chance at Gaining Another Congressional Representative

By Laura Orr

2020-02-24: Updated: 2020-02-24 10:48:30 Parking Setbacks Lawsuit (Oregon): Pedestrian and Driver-Rider Safety: Failure to Enforce

By Laura Orr

2020-02-18: Updated: 2020-02-18 11:40:44 How to Vote in the Oregon May 2020 Primary Election: NAVs have Limited Voting Rights

By Laura Orr

2020-02-18: Updated: 2020-02-18 11:14:00 Legal Name and Gender-Marker Change Clinic (Portland, OR, PCC, 3/11/2020)

By Laura Orr

2020-01-24: Updated: 2020-01-24 13:34:39 From Think Like a Lawyer to “Think Like a Client” (IAALS report)

By Laura Orr

2020-01-23: Updated: 2020-01-23 10:28:43 Dot Org is For Sale to the Highest Bidder: the Ongoing Death of Trust

By Laura Orr

2020-01-10: Updated: 2020-01-10 11:31:54 Articles of Impeachment: Where and How to Find

By Laura Orr

2020-01-10: Updated: 2020-01-10 11:21:40 Event: January 2020 Data Privacy Forum and CLE (Portland, Oregon)

By Laura Orr

2020-01-10: Updated: 2020-01-10 11:15:04 Are Your Gadgets Gaslighting You? (“A feminist take on information privacy”)

By Laura Orr

2020-01-10: Updated: 2020-01-10 11:08:40 K – 12 School Shooting Database

By Laura Orr

2019-10-31: Updated: 2019-10-31 09:35:58 Red Traffic Lanes: What Laws Govern “Experimental” Road Markings?

By Laura Orr

2019-10-23: Updated: 2019-10-23 11:38:14 I Know Nothing: Open Access (free) Literature, Article, Government Document, and Primary Source Digital Archives, Libraries, Databases, and Repositories

By Laura Orr

2019-09-26: Updated: 2019-09-26 18:12:06 What Does an Article of Impeachment Look Like? Read Presidents Nixon and Clinton Articles

By Laura Orr

2019-09-11: Updated: 2019-09-11 13:47:05 D1ND: Day 1, No Deal (Brexit Worst Case Planning Assumptions, 2 August 2019)

By Laura Orr

2019-08-20: Updated: 2019-08-20 10:39:29 Save Your Webpages for Posterity, Please: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

By Laura Orr

2019-08-14: Updated: 2019-08-14 12:44:24 “Bridge City: When does local pride become exclusionary?” (Oregon Humanities)

By Laura Orr

2019-08-08: Updated: 2019-08-08 10:54:23 Learning How to Lie: a Lesson Well Taught (Washington Post article)

By Laura Orr

2019-07-28: Updated: 2019-07-28 14:39:02 Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: Wise and Timely

By Laura Orr

2019-06-22: Updated: 2019-06-22 10:35:49 Official DOJ Mueller Report Tries to Comply with Transparency and Archiving (and Searching) Standards

By Laura Orr

2019-06-17: Updated: 2019-06-17 11:47:39 Too Much Law, Too Little Politics: Reith Lectures, 2019

By Laura Orr

2019-06-17: Updated: 2019-06-17 10:07:34 Hatch Act and Standards of Ethical Conduct for Federal Employees

By Laura Orr

2019-06-17: Updated: 2019-06-17 09:00:38 Read the Mueller Report (please)

By Laura Orr

2019-06-17: Updated: 2019-06-17 08:33:19 Juliana v. United States: A Case About the Future of Your Progeny

By Laura Orr

2019-06-12: Updated: 2019-06-12 11:51:59 What the Bleep Does Metro (Oregon) Do? Hint: Don’t Ask a Reporter or Radio Show Guest or Host

By Laura Orr

2019-06-12: Updated: 2019-06-12 11:19:05 IndieWeb 2019 Conference in Portland, Oregon

By Laura Orr

2019-05-02: Updated: 2019-05-02 14:38:10 “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Music, Copyright, Wikipedia Mystery, and Rabbit Holes

By Laura Orr

2019-04-23: Updated: 2019-04-23 11:05:50 Your “Good” Case Might Not Be So “Good” After All: BCite, KeyCite, Shepard’s

By Laura Orr

2019-04-19: Updated: 2019-04-19 19:23:00 Presidential Misconduct thru the Ages: House Report on the Impeachment of Richard Nixon (1974)

By Laura Orr

2019-04-17: Updated: 2019-04-17 13:20:56 Always Use the Serial (aka Oxford or Harvard) Comma in Legal Documents

By Laura Orr

2019-04-17: Updated: 2019-04-17 13:26:33 Legal Humor News (BBC): Chief Judge, Juror … and Chief Bottlewasher?

By Laura Orr

2019-04-14: Updated: 2019-04-14 10:52:32 Surveys I’ll Never Take or, Make Me Want to Take Your Survey!

By Laura Orr

2019-03-31: Updated: 2019-03-31 14:59:53 Flyers’ Rights (non-profit): For People Who Don’t Fly Private Jets

By Laura Orr

2019-03-27: Updated: 2019-03-27 17:08:13 The Grift (podcast), Episode 7: Oscar Hartzell: Understanding Con Man Devotion

By Laura Orr

2019-03-27: Updated: 2019-03-27 16:35:41 Journalists Keep Getting the Law Wrong (via Seth Abramson)

By Laura Orr

2019-03-12: Updated: 2019-03-12 09:48:37 Washington County Law Librarians Set Hours in Beaverton and Tigard

By Lee Van Duzer

2019-03-05: Updated: 2019-03-05 15:38:46 Legal Services Corporation Highlights Library Initiative White Paper

By Lee Van Duzer

2019-02-28: Updated: 2019-02-28 10:15:25 Polluted by Money: How corporate cash corrupted one of the greenest states in America (Oregonian)

By Laura Orr

2019-02-25: Updated: 2019-02-25 12:26:42 Book: A Layperson’s Guide to Legal Research and Self-Help Law Books

By Laura Orr

2019-02-25: Updated: 2019-02-25 11:09:54 Learn About the Rule of Law: March 5, 2019, Judicial Outreach Week Event in Portland, Oregon

By Laura Orr

2019-01-30: Updated: 2019-01-30 12:52:39 Psilocybin Service Initiative of Oregon, Michael Pollan, and “My Stroke of Insight”

By Laura Orr

2018-12-04: Updated: 2018-12-04 10:38:07 Find Help With Student Debt without Digging a Deeper Hole

By Laura Orr

2018-11-12: Updated: 2018-11-12 12:44:08 Cannabis, Fee Agreements, Common Law Indemnity: An Oregon Law Book Omnibus Blog Post

By Laura Orr

2018-10-11: Updated: 2018-10-11 12:12:45 Book: Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

By Laura Orr

2018-10-11: Updated: 2018-10-11 11:24:39 Free Legal Research Databases for all Oregonians

By Laura Orr

2018-09-17: Updated: 2018-09-17 11:42:46 Shouldn’t Every Day be Constitution Day (not just 9/17)?

By Laura Orr

2018-09-14: Updated: 2018-09-14 11:23:03 Are Oregon Legislative Concepts Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege?

By Laura Orr

2018-09-14: Updated: 2018-09-14 10:48:31 “Discovery of dog exonerates Oregon man in criminal case” (Wash Post)

By Laura Orr

2018-09-11: Updated: 2018-09-11 11:07:31 Follow the Money: Timber Revenues (Oregon and beyond)

By Laura Orr

2018-09-11: Updated: 2018-09-11 10:53:21 Follow the Money: Participatory Budgeting (Oregon and beyond)

By Laura Orr

2018-08-12: Updated: 2018-08-12 16:03:08 Free Birth Certificates for Persons Born in Oregon and Who Are Homeless

By Laura Orr

2018-07-03: Updated: 2018-07-03 17:03:02 Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness

By Laura Orr

2018-06-05: Updated: 2018-06-05 16:14:33 Using Small Claims Court in Oregon (Book), New Edition, 2018

By Laura Orr

2018-04-14: Updated: 2018-04-14 08:52:30 Oregon Voter Registration Deadline for May 2018 Primary: April 24, 2018

By Laura Orr

2018-04-04: Updated: 2018-04-04 10:18:12 Law Books Can Be Beautiful (a long time ago, sadly)

By Laura Orr

2018-04-02: Updated: 2018-04-02 12:46:32 Jobs: Plum Book: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

By Laura Orr

2018-04-02: Updated: 2018-04-02 12:25:16 Finally: Free Access to Taxpayer Funded Congressional Research Reports (within 90 days)

By Laura Orr

2018-03-20: Updated: 2018-03-20 10:53:50 Where to Find Oregon Vital Records: Birth, Marriage, Divorce, Death Records

By Laura Orr

2018-03-20: Updated: 2018-03-20 10:48:41 Job: State of Oregon Law Library (SOLL) seeks an Outreach Librarian

By Laura Orr

2018-02-20: Updated: 2018-02-20 11:37:16 U.S. Reports is the ONLY Official Edition of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

By Laura Orr

2018-02-20: Updated: 2018-02-20 10:29:20 Congressional Review Act: What, When, Why, and How it Is Used by Congress and the President

By Laura Orr

2018-02-12: Updated: 2018-02-12 11:39:35 The Law of Prison Law Libraries

By Laura Orr

2018-02-12: Updated: 2018-02-20 10:45:26 How to Value Legal Information

By Laura Orr

2018-02-12: Updated: 2018-02-12 11:31:14 Measuring Online Legal Resources for Self-Represented Litigants (report)

By Laura Orr

2018-02-12: Updated: 2018-02-12 11:26:40 Book: Becoming an Independent Information Professional

By Laura Orr

2018-02-12: Updated: 2018-02-12 11:22:41 How (and how not) to Preserve Letters other Family Memorabilia (NYT)

By Laura Orr

2018-01-31: Updated: 2018-01-31 14:06:09 Oregon’s 79th Legislative Assembly will convene February 5, 2018

By Laura Orr

2018-01-25: Updated: 2018-01-25 06:16:34 How to Put the Power of Law in People’s Hands (TED Talk, Vivek Maru)

By Laura Orr

2018-01-24: Updated: 2018-01-24 11:21:24 Judge Who Gave Victims their Voices in Nassar Case was an Immigrant

By Laura Orr

2018-01-24: Updated: 2018-01-24 10:50:47 Book: “Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions,” by Mark Godsey

By Laura Orr

2018-01-24: Updated: 2018-01-24 09:38:15 Oregon State Library Digital Collections Platform

By Laura Orr

2018-01-23: Updated: 2018-01-23 16:05:06 Judge Merrick Garland Appointed to Chair Executive Committee of the Federal Judicial Conference

By Laura Orr

2018-01-23: Updated: 2018-01-23 13:39:06 Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guide, January 2018 Update

By Laura Orr

2018-01-23: Updated: 2018-01-23 13:34:16 “How parents can protect their young athletes from the Larry Nassars of the world” (Washington Post article)

By Laura Orr

2018-01-23: Updated: 2018-01-23 13:29:01 Two Portland (OR) Legal Nonprofits Have Open Positions: Lawyers for Arts and Victims Rights Law Center

By Laura Orr

2018-01-23: Updated: 2018-01-23 13:18:57 PUGS Ready? Are You an Oregon Lawyer With a Deep, Dark Passion for Teaching?

By Laura Orr

2018-01-17: Updated: 2018-01-17 11:15:20 What Is Your Lawyer’s Technology Competency Score?

By Laura Orr

2018-01-17: Updated: 2018-01-17 09:45:26 DNA from an escaped slave who ended up in Iceland (Ars Technica)

By Laura Orr

2018-01-17: Updated: 2018-01-17 09:36:33 Writer, Director John Waters to Keynote AALL Annual Meeting in Baltimore, July 2018

By Laura Orr

2018-01-16: Updated: 2018-01-16 20:32:22 Speeding Up the Codification of Laws: You Say AI, I Say Thank you!

By Laura Orr

2018-01-16: Updated: 2018-01-16 20:07:44 Despair, Nihilism, and Getting Back Your Groove

By Laura Orr

2018-01-16: Updated: 2018-01-16 19:47:39 Are you a Quango? I Sincerely Doubt It.

By Laura Orr

2018-01-16: Updated: 2018-01-16 19:16:53 “40 Legal Practice Areas That Didn’t Exist 15 Years Ago” [My Shingle]

By Laura Orr

2018-01-16: Updated: 2018-01-17 11:29:36 Deboning Chickens, Paranormal Romance, and Prison Libraries

By Laura Orr

2018-01-10: Updated: 2018-01-10 10:48:14 States’ Rights? Right to Repair Laws: Unlocked Phone Anyone?

By Laura Orr

2017-12-17: Updated: 2017-12-17 13:39:50 More About State of Oregon Laws Relating to Political Parties

By Laura Orr

2017-12-17: Updated: 2017-12-17 13:32:18 What Laws and Rules Govern Oregon Political Parties? Overview

By Laura Orr

2017-12-17: Updated: 2017-12-17 12:16:54 Laws of Oregon Political Parties

By Laura Orr

2017-12-01: Updated: 2017-12-01 11:42:04 What is the Law of Net Neutrality? “Making Sense of the FCC’s Effort to Kill Net Neutrality” (Radio Survivor)

By Laura Orr

2017-11-08: Updated: 2017-11-08 12:37:41 UPL and Oregon’s New Public Law Library Employees

By Laura Orr

2017-10-24: Updated: 2017-10-24 10:50:29 How to Find Oregon Senatorial District Demographics by County Population? Statistical Atlas!

By Laura Orr

2017-08-10: Updated: 2017-08-10 12:48:17 Free Access to Nolo Legal Self-Help Publications for ALL Oregonians (Fastcase, too)

By Laura Orr

2017-08-10: Updated: 2017-08-10 12:37:29 Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Law

By Laura Orr

2017-07-08: Updated: 2017-07-08 10:31:25 Small Claims Court in Oregon: Advice and Tips for Plaintiffs and Defendants

By Laura Orr

2017-06-30: Updated: 2017-06-30 11:05:08 Meeting, July 2017: Accessibility and ADA at the New Multnomah County (Oregon) Courthouse

By Laura Orr

2017-06-30: Updated: 2017-06-30 10:56:00 Use of Fictitious Name for Parties in Civil Litigation in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2017-06-16: Updated: 2017-06-16 12:39:47 Oregon Law Librarian Wins National Award for 1953-1993 Oregon Revised Statutes Digitization Project

By Laura Orr

2017-04-03: Updated: 2017-04-03 10:54:14 U.S. Supreme Court Web Citation Link Rot Fix (UC Berkeley)

By Laura Orr

2017-04-03: Updated: 2017-04-03 10:34:53 More Sources of Free Full-text Versions of Articles

By Laura Orr

2017-03-27: Updated: 2017-03-27 09:43:40 Oregon Judicial Branch Online Records: Free, Public Access to Selected Court Documents

By Laura Orr

2017-03-27: Updated: 2017-03-27 09:38:59 Is the Trump/Kushner “White House Office of American Innovation” the 21st Century’s Bush/Quayle “White House Council on Competitiveness?”

By Laura Orr

2017-03-16: Updated: 2017-03-16 10:36:12 Scotland Buys the U.S. Declaration of Independence for a Song: Scoot Your Votey McVoteface

By Laura Orr

2017-03-16: Updated: 2017-03-16 10:13:34 Rivers in New Zealand Can Have Legal Status as Persons (NYT)

By Laura Orr

2017-03-16: Updated: 2017-03-16 10:08:38 Yay for the Oxford Comma! (New York Times)

By Laura Orr

2017-02-13: Updated: 2017-02-13 11:11:49 Is Online Information Ever “Permanent?”

By Laura Orr

2017-02-13: Updated: 2017-02-13 10:56:48 Foreign Language Services for non-English Speakers at Oregon Public Libraries

By Laura Orr

2017-02-13: Updated: 2017-02-13 10:47:52 Database Access for Researchers Affected by Travel Bans: ProQuest

By Laura Orr

2017-01-24: Updated: 2017-01-31 10:35:19 Resources for Women Seeking Information about Running for Political Office

By Laura Orr

2017-01-24: Updated: 2017-01-24 10:46:26 Comic Relief: Fake Lawyer Blogs Repost My Post About Their Fake Lawyer Blogs (LawSites)

By Laura Orr

2017-01-24: Updated: 2017-01-24 10:35:59 Official “End of Presidential Term” Digital Archives

By Laura Orr

2017-01-17: Updated: 2017-01-17 10:35:26 “Vote” 365 Days of the Year: Talk, Talk, Talk to your Elected Representatives

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2017-01-17: Updated: 2017-01-17 10:00:27 Protect Your Constitutional Rights: “Vote” With Your Families on January 21, 2017

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2017-01-10: Updated: 2017-01-10 10:13:25 Project on Predatory Student Lending

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2017-01-10: Updated: 2017-01-10 10:04:19 Oregon 2017 Legislative Session Begins

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2017-01-04: Updated: 2017-01-04 09:47:52 Country Corruption Indexes

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2017-01-04: Updated: 2017-01-04 09:20:09 “Dishonorable: The trouble with Oregon’s judicial elections” (Street Roots)

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2016-12-13: Updated: 2016-12-13 10:20:46 Law Students, Get Smart: Mine Your County Law Library

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2016-12-08: Updated: 2016-12-08 18:31:25 Death, History, Law, Experience (book)

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2016-12-08: Updated: 2016-12-08 18:27:03 Oregon’s Reluctant Executioner (BBC News Outlook)

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2016-11-14: Updated: 2016-11-14 10:52:31 Teaching Students That Judge Judy Is Not a Supreme Court Justice (NYT)

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2016-11-07: Updated: 2016-11-07 11:12:14 Fabulous Fabio and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge “Militia” Jury (Oregonian)

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2016-10-31: Updated: 2016-10-31 09:23:16 Colorado Challenges Oregon to a Universal Health Care Coverage Contest

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2016-10-30: Updated: 2016-10-30 13:55:15 Criminal Law: How to Think Like a Lawyer (Nov 2016, PUGS, Portland, OR)

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2016-10-30: Updated: 2016-10-30 13:42:48 Freelance isn’t Free: Nonpayment is Theft (Bitch Media)

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2016-10-23: Updated: 2016-10-23 17:48:18 66 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Right Now (Consumer Reports)

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2016-10-20: Updated: 2016-10-20 10:29:06 Women and Politics: Chi-Raq (Spike Lee), Pussy Fights Back (Nation), and If Hillary Groped Men (NYT)

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2016-10-19: Updated: 2016-10-19 18:01:13 Another Oregon Public Law Librarian Honored: Jennifer Dalglish

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2016-10-11: Updated: 2016-10-11 12:01:34 “What exactly is locker room talk?” (NYT article)

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2016-10-10: Updated: 2016-10-10 13:06:36 Oregon Women in History: ‘We Can’t Do Much Worse Than the Men’ (The Atlantic)

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2016-10-10: Updated: 2016-10-10 11:56:08 Excellent Jobs for Policy Wonks! Oregon Legislative Policy and Research Office: Analyst

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2016-10-10: Updated: 2016-10-10 11:00:40 The County Law Library: A free and valuable legal research resource

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2016-10-10: Updated: 2016-10-10 10:53:23 Oregon Voters: You Have Until October 18 to Register (or Update your Registration)

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2016-09-18: Updated: 2016-09-18 13:02:17 2016 Oregon Archives Crawl, October 8th

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2016-08-29: Updated: 2016-08-29 12:57:51 70 Year Anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”

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2016-08-22: Updated: 2016-08-22 11:09:25 Inaugural Stand-Alone SRLN Equal Justice Program Scheduled for February 2017

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2016-08-22: Updated: 2016-08-22 10:51:06 Next Big Thing: National Conference on Copyright of State Legal Materials

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2016-08-08: Updated: 2016-08-08 12:07:51 Access to Justice: ABA Report from Commission on Future of Legal Services

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2016-08-04: Updated: 2016-08-04 14:50:36 Oregon Self-Represented Litigant Resources

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2016-07-28: Updated: 2016-07-28 15:35:19 Oregon State Law Librarian is a 2016 Fastcase 50 List Winner

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2016-07-28: Updated: 2016-07-28 15:03:57 Legal Hackers Summit: Blockchain (aka block chain), the Law, and UELMA

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2016-07-28: Updated: 2016-07-28 11:42:10 New Oregon Legislative Agency: Office of Legislative Policy and Research

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2016-07-28: Updated: 2016-07-28 11:36:42 “Oregon Judicial Department Provides Better Public Access To Online Court Information”

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2016-07-14: Updated: 2016-07-14 13:30:36 Legal Self-Help Center News in Oregon and Beyond

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2016-07-13: Updated: 2016-07-13 13:15:44 Oregon Appellate Court Briefs: Filing to Access Timeline Update

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2016-07-07: Updated: 2016-07-07 13:07:26 Baseball’s Magna Carta: Setting the Rules of America’s Game

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2016-07-06: Updated: 2016-07-06 11:54:53 Oregon Access to Justice Forum (Portland, September 2016)

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2016-07-01: Updated: 2016-07-01 13:09:02 Guidelines on Public Rights of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records (Mass.)

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2016-07-01: Updated: 2016-07-01 12:18:30 What is Access to Justice? A (funny) Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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2016-06-24: Updated: 2016-06-24 11:00:26 Copyright Tools for Libraries and Librarians (ALA)

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2016-06-24: Updated: 2016-06-24 10:43:35 “Desk Set” (the movie) and the 2016 Robot Lawyers

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2016-06-24: Updated: 2016-06-24 10:10:00 Brexit, Huh? And the Brits Think Our Elections are Crazy

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2016-06-22: Updated: 2016-06-22 11:22:40 Brexit Election (Voting) Results are Not Binding

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2016-06-22: Updated: 2016-06-22 10:10:20 Regulating Birth and Birth Control, plus a Short Story Comic (Oregon Historical Quarterly)

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2016-06-22: Updated: 2016-06-22 10:00:44 “Fully Loaded: How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business” (Mother Jones)

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2016-06-22: Updated: 2016-06-22 09:24:05 How a Prison Inmate Became a Jailhouse Lawyer and Changed the System (New Yorker)

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2016-06-13: Updated: 2016-06-13 14:27:00 Oregon Attorney General’s Public Records Law Reform Task Force

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2016-06-10: Updated: 2016-06-10 13:30:46 Oregon Revised Statutes, 1995 and 1997, Appearing Online

By Laura Orr

2016-06-07: Updated: 2016-06-07 14:39:04 When a Law Librarian Sighs, It Means Talk to a Lawyer! (Note: The Google is NOT a Lawyer)

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2016-06-07: Updated: 2016-06-07 14:13:00 Some (Very Funny) Rules of Dueling (In Custodia Legis)

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2016-06-04: Updated: 2016-06-04 16:04:04 Kids Home Alone: Fire, Death and Race

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2016-06-04: Updated: 2016-06-04 15:53:11 Is Your Water Safe to Drink? Flint and How to Test Your Water (and your local water system)

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2016-05-24: Updated: 2016-05-24 12:58:21 One Woman, One Vote x 26 Equals the First Woman Mayor, All Woman City Council in 1916 Umatilla, Oregon

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2016-05-24: Updated: 2016-05-24 12:48:34 Demonic Photos, Cloud Appreciation, and Terrestrial Musings (Burglar’s Guide to the City)

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2016-05-24: Updated: 2016-05-24 12:37:12 LawSites: Blawg and Legal Tech Roundup, Legal Info Copyright, Open Source, and Access Lawsuits, and More

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2016-05-13: Updated: 2016-05-13 14:36:53 Barriers to Legal Information Access: Copyright, UELMA, Management

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2016-05-13: Updated: 2016-05-13 14:23:02 Maple Match (Canadian-American dating service) and Presidential Election Seasons

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2016-05-11: Updated: 2016-05-11 11:52:40 DIY Justice: Citizen Prosecution of Dangerous Drivers in Oregon

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2016-05-10: Updated: 2016-05-10 12:33:14 Law Librarianship is Not About Books or Coffee Machines

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2016-05-10: Updated: 2016-05-10 11:11:47 Model U.S. Law Firm Copyright Policy (AALL, 2016)

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2016-04-27: Updated: 2016-04-27 10:28:35 Misprision is Not a Misspelling

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2016-04-14: Updated: 2016-04-14 15:03:18 Internet Archivists: When Links Rot, Data Disintegrates, and Files Vanish, Find a Friend

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2016-04-05: Updated: 2016-04-05 11:20:20 Equal Justice Library at Georgetown Law School

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2016-04-05: Updated: 2016-04-05 11:12:25 Oregon Innocence Project: Two Views of the Constitution, Criminal Prosecution, and Criminal Defense

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2016-04-05: Updated: 2016-04-05 11:02:20 Early, Absentee, and Mail Voting in the United States

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2016-04-05: Updated: 2016-04-05 10:57:51 Panama Papers and the U.S.: “Why the Panama Papers should be a US election issue”

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2016-03-29: Updated: 2016-03-29 11:11:50 SCOTUS-Style Manual Available for Purchase

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2016-03-29: Updated: 2016-03-29 10:15:03 Can a Private Publisher Own Public Law? Fastcase v. Casemaker

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2016-03-18: Updated: 2016-03-18 12:49:48 Oregonians Have Until April 26th (2016) To Register to Vote or to Change Party Registration

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2016-03-17: Updated: 2016-03-17 10:14:09 Where Do You Find Great Legal Research Advice?

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2016-03-04: Updated: 2016-03-04 10:35:14 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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2016-03-04: Updated: 2016-03-04 10:08:36 All Writs Act: then and now

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2016-02-27: Updated: 2016-02-27 11:06:42 Oregon State Bar (OSB) Discipline System Review Committee Reports

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2016-02-27: Updated: 2016-02-27 10:53:58 Evaluating State Court Self-Help Programs

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2016-02-26: Updated: 2016-02-26 11:30:44 America’s Body Cam Laws: NPR Survey

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2016-02-25: Updated: 2016-02-25 09:00:24 City of Portland (Oregon) Homelessness Toolkit

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2016-02-24: Updated: 2016-02-24 11:11:35 Sex Change Legal Forms Packet, Multnomah County (Oregon)

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2016-02-24: Updated: 2016-02-24 11:05:44 President Obama Announces His Librarian of Congress Nomination

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2016-02-22: Updated: 2016-02-22 10:04:48 State Legal Information Census: An Analysis of Primary State Legal Information

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2016-02-10: Updated: 2016-02-10 10:04:55 A2J Words Matter: A Legal Resource Center is Not Always a Law Library (and vice versa)

By Laura Orr

2016-02-10: Updated: 2016-02-10 09:49:08 Legal Self-Help Clinic for Appeals (Minnesota)

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2016-01-29: Updated: 2016-01-29 12:47:20 Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability: Report on Judge Vance Day

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2016-01-29: Updated: 2016-02-01 09:30:52 The 2015 Oregon Revised Statutes are Now Online

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2016-01-28: Updated: 2016-01-28 12:21:26 Oregon House and Senate 2016 Bills

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2016-01-20: Updated: 2016-01-20 08:59:35 Thinking About Courthouse Design: Access to Justice

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2016-01-12: Updated: 2016-01-12 16:03:55 New Oregon Laws: Passed in 2015, Effective in 2016

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2016-01-12: Updated: 2016-01-12 11:59:50 The PRINT 2015 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are Now Available

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2016-01-12: Updated: 2016-01-12 11:20:47 A Reading List for People Planning to “Occupy” Public Property

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2016-01-08: Updated: 2016-01-08 10:22:20 Oregon CLE: Continuing Debate Over the Sequential Lineup

By Laura Orr

2016-01-07: Updated: 2016-01-06 16:37:30 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Adds Online Citations to Dockets

By Lee Van Duzer

2016-01-06: Updated: 2016-01-06 11:22:12 Do You Really Know What “Disruptive Innovation” Means?

By Laura Orr

2016-01-05: Updated: 2016-01-05 21:01:57 Canis Lupus Law: Why Do We Try to Save the Wolves?

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2016-01-05: Updated: 2016-01-05 18:09:24 Oregon State Bar Proposes Changes to Public Disciplinary Process for Lawyers

By Laura Orr

2015-12-29: Updated: 2015-12-29 17:43:11 Oregon Cannabis Laws: 2014 Measure 91 & 2015 HB 3400, Diced, Sliced, and Shredded

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2015-12-16: Updated: 2015-12-16 09:08:49 Giving & Taking in Oregon: Is That Charity Legitimate?

By Laura Orr

2015-11-03: Updated: 2015-11-03 11:40:08 State of Oregon Law Library Provides Statewide, Remote Access to EBSCO & Fastcase

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2015-11-02: Updated: 2015-11-02 11:18:00 Too Big to Sue, (new-ish) Tort Reform, Arbitration Clauses, the Supreme Court and You

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2015-10-20: Updated: 2015-10-20 19:03:31 The 1935 Fire that Burned the Oregon State Capitol

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2015-10-18: Updated: 2015-10-18 12:36:19 Amazon Sues “Fake” Reviewers (follow-up lawsuit) in King County

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2015-10-13: Updated: 2015-10-12 14:11:26 Coming Soon to a Lawyer’s Website Near You, .Law Domains

By Lee Van Duzer

2015-10-12: Updated: 2015-10-12 13:10:55 Research Tip on Finding Free & Low Cost Legal Research Databases

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2015-10-12: Updated: 2015-10-12 12:50:48 Legal Research Database Update: Fastcase Absorbs LoisLaw

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2015-10-02: Updated: 2015-10-02 10:29:24 Introduction to iPad for Trial Lawyers (MyShingle)

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2015-10-02: Updated: 2015-10-02 11:40:32 Oregon Archives Month Celebration: Portland, October 3, 2015

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2015-09-29: Updated: 2015-09-29 14:49:55 Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature, 2006

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2015-09-29: Updated: 2015-09-29 14:41:24 Minimum Wage Law, 1967: An Oregon Legislative History Lesson

By Laura Orr

2015-09-20: Updated: 2015-09-20 13:54:43 Learn Oregon Legislative History Research from the Experts

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2015-09-20: Updated: 2015-09-20 13:45:58 Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure

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2015-09-20: Updated: 2015-09-20 13:40:41 Harris County (Texas) Law Library Celebrates 100 Years of Access to Justice

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2015-09-20: Updated: 2015-09-20 13:35:38 More Free Legal Research Databases for Oregon Researchers: Fastcase & HeinOnline

By Laura Orr

2015-09-04: Updated: 2015-09-04 11:35:30 Supreme Court of Ohio, Advisory Opinion re: Judicial Performance of Civil Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

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2015-08-30: Updated: 2015-08-30 16:42:33 Oregon Court of Appeals Sniffs the Weed and Finds it “not inherently unpleasant”: Oregon v. Lang

By Laura Orr

2015-08-24: Updated: 2015-08-24 12:14:50 How to Change Your Voter Party-Affiliation Registration in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2015-08-06: Updated: 2015-08-06 08:27:19 Homeless in Portland: Business Alliance, Street Roots, and the Law of Urban Planning 101

By Laura Orr

2015-08-06: Updated: 2015-08-06 08:14:02 Research Foreign and International Law Like a Pro

By Laura Orr

2015-07-17: Updated: 2015-07-17 07:15:59 Oregon Lawyer Ethics: When Lawyers Sue Lawyers for Ethical Breaches (The Bee, Editorial)

By Laura Orr

2015-07-16: Updated: 2015-07-16 13:52:23 Oregon U.S.D.Ct. Chief Judge Ann Aiken a 2015 Fastcase 50 Winner

By Laura Orr

2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 15:17:17 Bubbles in MOOC-land

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2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 14:35:29 Internet Searching and Archiving: It Doesn’t Get Better; It Gets a Whole Lot Worse

By Laura Orr

2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 10:18:31 Fastcase 7: Better Than a Tesla?

By Laura Orr

2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 10:05:34 “Is it stealing if you empty a Little Free Library?”

By Laura Orr

2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 10:01:53 6 lawyers with food truck businesses and 10 romance novelists with law degrees

By Laura Orr

2015-07-09: Updated: 2015-07-09 06:41:49 National Survey of State Laws, 7th edition

By Laura Orr

2015-07-02: Updated: 2015-07-02 12:48:57 Marijuana vs. Voodoo Donuts: A Visual Aid

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2015-06-23: Updated: 2015-06-23 11:42:35 What if Readers Turned Pages for the Sake of Turning Pages?: Amazon, Taylor Swift, and Big Brother

By Laura Orr

2015-06-18: Updated: 2015-06-18 13:14:22 Oregon Legal Assistance Resource Guide

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2015-06-11: Updated: 2015-06-11 15:49:30 How to Serve (Deliver) Legal Papers in Oregon

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2015-06-11: Updated: 2015-06-11 08:38:38 Private For Hire Transportation (Uber, Lyft, Taxis) Forum (Portland, OR)

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2015-06-11: Updated: 2015-06-11 08:30:59 Legal Publishers and Audio News: Where’s the Playlist?

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2015-06-05: Updated: 2016-01-29 10:06:36 Superseded Oregon Revised Statutes 1953-1993: Update

By Laura Orr

2015-06-04: Updated: 2015-06-04 15:29:42 Does This Blog Answer Readers’ Questions?

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2015-06-04: Updated: 2015-06-04 08:32:59 Grandparent Custody and Visitation Rights in Oregon: 2015 HB 3014

By Laura Orr

2015-05-22: Updated: 2015-05-22 13:21:03 Open Source, Lawyers, and Beer: FOSS+Beer, Beryl’s, and a Legal Talk Network Podcast

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2015-05-22: Updated: 2015-05-22 13:08:54 Court Dockets and the $40 Million Dollar Dope Slap

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2015-05-20: Updated: 2015-05-20 17:42:20 Searching Case Law with Google Scholar: New and Improved

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2015-05-12: Updated: 2015-05-12 08:43:09 Alternative Legal Research Databases for New and Experienced Lawyers

By Laura Orr

2015-05-12: Updated: 2015-05-12 08:37:01 When Lawyers Go Bad: Law Library Book Thieves: Law and Ethics

By Laura Orr

2015-05-12: Updated: 2015-05-12 08:16:18 Librarians versus the NSA (The Nation)

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2015-05-04: Updated: 2015-05-04 08:10:51 Judicial Analytics and Ravel Law (database)

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2015-05-04: Updated: 2015-05-04 08:06:05 Last Thoughts on Legislative Drafting and Poetry Month (April at the Law Library of Congress)

By Laura Orr

2015-05-04: Updated: 2015-05-06 13:40:20 California Court Documents: Trial Court Documents and Appellate Court Briefs

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2015-04-30: Updated: 2015-04-30 09:59:35 Oregon Supreme Court: PERS Decision (4/30/15)

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2015-04-29: Updated: 2015-04-29 07:03:34 Baltimore Libraries Stay Open Through Riots

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2015-04-29: Updated: 2015-04-29 06:45:48 Preventing Link Rot: Lawyer and Librarian Friend Perma cc Wins Webby Award

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2015-04-22: Updated: 2015-04-22 07:09:31 It’s National County Government (and Poetry) Month

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2015-04-20: Updated: 2015-04-20 09:45:30 New Multnomah Law Library Website: Services, Databases, Catalog and More

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2015-04-17: Updated: 2015-04-17 08:07:56 Oregon “Jury awards couple nearly $240K over neighbors’ barking dogs,”

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2015-04-16: Updated: 2015-04-16 13:53:11 Oregon Practice Management: Pro Se Adversaries: Tips for New Lawyers

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2015-04-13: Updated: 2015-04-13 07:40:38 Oregon Lawyers: Legal Writing Brevity Challenge

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2015-04-12: Updated: 2015-04-12 16:32:40 Public Services Attorney/Law Librarian to Lead Self-Help Center in King County (Washington)

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2015-04-12: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:29:37 New and Free Legal Database for Oregon Legal Researchers

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2015-04-12: Updated: 2015-04-12 16:10:24 Oregon State Bar CLE Seminars Course Materials Library

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2015-04-12: Updated: 2015-04-12 16:01:46 Oregon Innocence Project (OIP) Event: “Picking Cotton” Authors: Eyewitness Identification, Wrongful Conviction, and Forgiveness

By Laura Orr

2015-04-09: Updated: 2015-04-09 08:50:00 What is Access to Justice For? Another View of the A2J Cathedral: 360 Degrees and in 5 Dimensions

By Laura Orr

2015-04-03: Updated: 2015-04-03 08:19:20 Access to Justice & Kindness: Oregon Lawyers Pay Up

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2015-04-01: Updated: 2015-04-01 16:04:46 The $9,650 “In Dog We Trust Rug”

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2015-04-01: Updated: 2015-04-01 15:41:28 April Fool, or Not: The Oregon State Bar is Looking for Lawyer Poets

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2015-04-01: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:30:07 Don’t Be a Legal Self-Help DIY April Fool

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2015-03-31: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:30:31 20 Access to Legal Services and Information Apps

By Laura Orr

2015-03-26: Updated: 2015-03-26 07:09:51 My, My, My: Auntie Mame Would Have Made a Hoot of a Law Librarian

By Laura Orr

2015-03-25: Updated: 2015-03-26 13:53:28 Dockets and other Court Records Databases in Oregon Public Law Libraries: Update

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2015-03-23: Updated: 2015-03-23 13:41:19 Law Practice: Ethical Duty of Technology Competence

By Laura Orr

2015-03-23: Updated: 2015-03-23 10:19:18 Law Technology Products / Processes Starts and Stops 2014-2015: Bloomberg to Uber

By Laura Orr

2015-03-23: Updated: 2015-03-23 07:16:31 Are Law-Lib Archives 35 years old in March 2015? Happy Birthday!

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-03-22 15:06:09 ID Theft: A Tax Return Grab and Go (aka Hit and Run) at the Post Office

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:31:08 Legal Information Services to the Public: Legal Research Toolkits for Public Librarians

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-03-22 14:26:35 Clark County, King County, and other Washington State County Law Libraries

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-03-22 14:16:00 Read the 180 Day Rule Regarding “Required disclosure of customer communications or records”

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-03-22 14:05:18 Open Access and the Law (Symposium, May 2015, Texas)

By Laura Orr

2015-03-22: Updated: 2015-03-22 13:59:17 Where and How to Find an Oregon Criminal Record Report

By Laura Orr

2015-03-13: Updated: 2015-03-17 14:40:21 Job Announcement: Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian (Library Director)

By Laura Orr

2015-03-13: Updated: 2015-03-13 09:59:21 Animal Law at the Oregon Legislature: 18 March 2015

By Laura Orr

2015-03-05: Updated: 2015-03-05 11:11:38 Non-Lawyer Legal Assistance: Limited License Legal Technicians in Oregon

By Laura Orr

2015-02-26: Updated: 2015-02-26 08:12:12 Position Announcement: JD/MLS/A2J Public Services Attorney (Seattle, WA)

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2015-02-26: Updated: 2015-02-26 07:41:12 Marion County (Oregon) Law Library Volunteer Position

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2015-02-24: Updated: 2015-02-24 09:45:26 Save That Webpage to the Internet Archive!

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-02-20 10:58:49 Going to Jail: How Juvenile Books Portray the Prison Experience

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-04-01 13:38:43 When to Talk to a Lawyer? BEFORE You Respond to that Summons or Demand Letter!

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-02-20 07:46:25 Beyond February 14th: Love, Adultery, and Madness in American History

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-02-20 07:33:47 Why Do Solos and Small Law Firms Bear the Burden of Access to Justice?

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-02-20 07:24:48 Lawyers and Telephones: Don’t Lose that Client!

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:31:54 What’s Past May Be Gone, Not Prologue, But for the Internet Archive

By Laura Orr

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-02-20 07:08:11 Oregon Sheriff’s Association Civil Process Manual, $350

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2015-02-11: Updated: 2015-02-20 07:40:07 Oregon “Cameras Up Skirts” Bill: 2015 HB 2596 (amending ORS 163.700)

By Laura Orr

2015-02-06: Updated: 2015-02-06 14:00:50 $60 a Year for 75,000 (NYLI) Law eBooks?!!

By Laura Orr

2015-02-06: Updated: 2015-02-06 07:56:19 Oregon Condo and Planned Communities: Bills in the 2015R Legislature: Signs & Records Disclosure

By Laura Orr

2015-02-05: Updated: 2015-02-05 10:35:39 No Death Goals (Volvo) and Access to Justice?

By Laura Orr

2015-02-05: Updated: 2015-02-05 10:29:29 Job: Walt Disney Company Seeking a Temporary Law Librarian

By Laura Orr

2015-02-04: Updated: 2015-02-04 13:36:31 Oregon Constitution on “Vacancy in office of Governor”

By Laura Orr

2015-02-03: Updated: 2015-02-03 13:36:04 Oregon Beer Librarian and the Pro-Am (ages 70-95) Brewers of Machine Gun Maggie Imperial IPA

By Laura Orr

2015-01-29: Updated: 2015-01-29 13:39:36 Emergency Clauses in the Oregon Constitution and Laws – Referendum Power Reserved to the People

By Laura Orr

2015-01-29: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:32:23 Oregon 2015 Supplementary Local Rules Available Now

By Laura Orr

2015-01-29: Updated: 2015-01-29 09:29:31 Oregon Courts Enable Online Filing for Domestic Violence Restraining Orders (FAPA)

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2015-01-29: Updated: 2015-01-29 09:12:22 “Help Prevent the Flu” Flyers and Posters for Work and Home

By Laura Orr

2015-01-28: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:32:52 Cuban Legal System: A Law Library of Congress Introduction

By Laura Orr

2015-01-27: Updated: 2015-01-28 10:54:59 Update on the Oregon Ballot Measure Archive Project, 1959-2007

By Laura Orr

2015-01-26: Updated: 2015-01-26 08:35:36 Public Records Argle-Bargle at the University of Oregon Archives: Librarians on Hot Seat?

By Laura Orr

2015-01-22: Updated: 2015-01-22 07:07:02 Multnomah County Circuit Courthouse Project: Public Meetings (Jan & Feb 2015)

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2015-01-20: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:33:13 Oregon Attorney General’s 2014 Public Records and Meetings Manual

By Laura Orr

2015-01-20: Updated: 2015-01-20 07:23:27 CLEs for Oregon Solo and Small Firm Practitioners: Legal Lunchbox Series

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2015-01-14: Updated: 2015-01-14 13:42:47 The Meaning of the Word “Accompany” in 18 USC 2113 (SCOTUS)

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2015-01-14: Updated: 2015-01-14 13:30:31 Crowdfunding Ethics for Oregon Lawyers

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2015-01-12: Updated: 2015-01-12 15:21:30 Tax Forms and Free Tax Preparation Help in Oregon

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2015-01-12: Updated: 2015-01-12 09:30:04 Book Review: Levitt & Davis: “Internet Legal Research on a Budget: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Lawyers”

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2015-01-12: Updated: 2015-01-12 09:07:06 From Westlaw to CardMunch

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2015-01-08: Updated: 2015-01-08 08:07:35 January 7, Paris: Law librarians and free press, free speech human rights advocates: Je suis Charlie

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2015-01-07: Updated: 2015-01-07 09:28:26 Oregon Judicial Branch Four Year Report (2011-2014)

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2015-01-07: Updated: 2015-01-07 07:52:29 Oregon Lawyers: 2015 Law Library Values Report (OSB) for Tax and Other Purposes

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2015-01-05: Updated: 2015-01-28 10:56:04 Oregon Medical and “Recreational” Marijuana Laws

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2015-01-05: Updated: 2015-01-05 08:30:54 January 2015 ABA Journal: Pet Nups, UPL, IP for Kids, and Much More

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2015-01-05: Updated: 2015-01-05 08:16:18 Free Journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases”

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2015-01-05: Updated: 2015-01-05 08:08:16 Your Big Brother eBook is Watching You: Big Data Equals Big Business

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2014-12-30: Updated: 2014-12-30 08:31:16 Free Online Pre-nuptial Agreement for Pets (Pet Nup) (UK law!)

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2014-12-29: Updated: 2014-12-29 14:50:22 IRS Publication on the Affordable Health Care Law

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2014-12-29: Updated: 2014-12-29 14:41:18 2014 Promulgated Amendments to the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (ORCP)

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2014-12-29: Updated: 2014-12-29 14:34:13 It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build a Digital Law Library

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2014-12-26: Updated: 2014-12-26 15:49:50 Learn about Tax Provisions of the Health Care Law (aka Affordable Care Act)

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2014-12-23: Updated: 2014-12-23 13:38:29 Watch for the 2015 Oregon Rules of Appellate Procedure

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2014-12-23: Updated: 2014-12-23 07:43:54 ABA 2014 Commission on the Future of Legal Services

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2014-12-22: Updated: 2014-12-23 07:50:48 Christmas Trees (and Menorahs) Made from Books: Reuse, Re-purpose, Re-gift? (oy vey!)

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2014-12-22: Updated: 2014-12-22 13:52:33 eCourt Questions (and answers) for Oregon Lawyers

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2014-12-19: Updated: 2014-12-19 13:28:33 CLEs and Books for Oregon Contract Attorneys, and the Lawyers who Hire Them

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2014-12-18: Updated: 2014-12-18 13:31:46 Multnomah County Circuit Court 2014 Report on the Multnomah Law Library

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2014-12-18: Updated: 2014-12-18 11:48:58 U.S. 19th out of 99 in Latest Access to Justice Ranking

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2014-12-18: Updated: 2014-12-18 11:43:53 Sandy Hook: Soto vs. Bushmaster Firearms Lawsuit (complaint)

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2014-12-16: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:33:52 ABA launches online database of collateral consequences for each U.S. jurisdiction

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2014-12-10: Updated: 2015-04-13 10:34:15 Public Law Librarian Blog: “Legal Research is Easy”

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2014-12-10: Updated: 2014-12-19 13:29:39 Elf Churches Have Standing in the Courts of Iceland (and why not?)

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2014-12-10: Updated: 2014-12-10 16:08:51 Oregon Attorney Fee Codebook and Compilation (2014)

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2014-12-10: Updated: 2014-12-10 13:13:05 Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage—Free Online Course

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2014-12-09: Updated: 2014-12-09 15:03:00 Researching U.S. and Oregon Administrative Laws: Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR)

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2014-12-03: Updated: 2014-12-03 15:15:31 Riskless, Larcenous, and Legal: Dark Pools and HFTs for the Literary Thrillseeker

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2014-12-03: Updated: 2014-12-03 14:51:03 Oregon Legislature: Joint Oregon Elder Abuse Work Group

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2014-12-03: Updated: 2014-12-03 14:47:59 Mandatory eCourt Filing in Oregon (selected counties)

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2014-12-03: Updated: 2014-12-03 14:42:56 First Portland (Oregon) Bike Theft Summit (12/10/14)

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2014-12-02: Updated: 2014-12-02 08:48:14 Oregon Legislative “Advocacy 101” (12/15/14)

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2014-11-28: Updated: 2014-11-28 11:19:53 Federal Tax Forms and Free Tax Help in Oregon

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2014-11-28: Updated: 2014-11-28 11:12:51 CLEs: Oregon Legal Research and Adoption, Surrogacy and Assisted Reproduction Law

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2014-11-21 13:56:57 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Resources for Librarians

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2015-01-27 14:35:43 Report: “Marijuana and health: A comprehensive review of 20 years of research”

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2014-11-21 07:51:46 Ursula Le Guin Sounds the Alarm: A tribute, and call to arms, to writers and readers

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2014-11-21 07:32:36 How Do You Know You’re a Librarian? (Free book download)

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2014-11-21 07:19:36 Is a Backpack Inventory by Police a Warrantless Search? Oregon v. Hite (2014)

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2014-11-21: Updated: 2014-11-21 07:16:39 Volunteer with the Oregon Attorney General’s Consumer Hotline

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2014-11-18: Updated: 2014-11-18 13:30:54 (Unpaid) College Credit Internship with Local (Oregon) Film and TV Producers

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2014-11-18: Updated: 2014-11-18 13:23:06 Canine U.S. Supreme Court Arguments: In Dog We Trust (all others meow)

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