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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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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”

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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?

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

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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

By Laura Orr

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

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

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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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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?

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

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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

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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

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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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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”

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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)

By Laura Orr

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

By Laura Orr

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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2014-11-14: Updated: 2014-11-14 07:43:13 Oregon Attorney CLE: Legal Assistance to Rape Survivors Project: 12/3/14

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2014-11-13: Updated: 2014-11-13 07:59:52 Federal Register: Final Incorporation by Reference Rule Implements Recommendation 2011-5

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2014-11-12: Updated: 2014-11-12 13:59:07 Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak

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2014-11-10: Updated: 2014-11-10 10:16:54 Oregon Legal Self-Help at your Fingertips

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2014-11-07: Updated: 2014-11-07 08:44:15 Courthouse Romance? Oregon Judges Perform Weddings: Who, What, Where, and How (the Why is up to you)

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2014-11-06: Updated: 2014-11-06 15:01:30 Law Librarians and Legal Information Professionals in a World That Needs (Legal Research) Help

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2014-11-06: Updated: 2014-11-06 14:46:28 Ambrogi LawSites Marathon: Brave New World of Legal Information Delivery!

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2014-11-05: Updated: 2014-11-05 15:00:24 Oregon Attorney Fee Codebook and Compilation, 2014

By Laura Orr

2014-11-04: Updated: 2014-11-04 14:00:33 Death with Dignity: Advance Directives (legal form) in Oregon: Health Care Instructions

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2014-11-04: Updated: 2014-11-04 13:53:25 Tough Love in the Workplace: “Everyone who wants a call/chat with me must fill in an application”

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2014-10-30: Updated: 2014-10-30 15:46:47 Oregon MCLE Reporting Year CLEs at Law Libraries

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2014-10-28: Updated: 2014-10-28 13:27:06 OJIN and OECI Access in Oregon County Law Libraries

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2014-10-28: Updated: 2014-10-28 09:53:15 Happy 9th Birthday Oregon Legal Research Blog

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2014-10-28: Updated: 2014-10-28 09:38:38 Not Dead Yet: Santa Claus, Yogi Berra, and Source Verification (Churchill not Reagan)

By Laura Orr

2014-10-28: Updated: 2014-10-28 09:25:11 Update: “Anything But Law School” Scholarship Awarded (to a music teacher)

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2014-10-24: Updated: 2014-10-27 08:09:23 Ouch! Another Lesson in Statutory Interpretation: Oregon Court of Appeals Pulls Out its Hair: State v. Lewis (2014)

By Laura Orr

2014-10-24: Updated: 2014-10-24 09:49:30 Landlord-Tenant Law Guide (from the Law Library of Congress)

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2014-10-24: Updated: 2014-10-24 08:09:39 Oregon Lawyers: What is an “of Counsel” Relationship?

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2014-10-24: Updated: 2014-10-24 08:04:30 Oregon Lawyers: New PLF Website

By Laura Orr

2014-10-24: Updated: 2014-10-24 08:02:06 Legal Research Class: City of Damascus v. Henry R. Brown, Jr. (Oregon Court of Appeals, 2014)

By Laura Orr

2014-10-23: Updated: 2014-10-23 17:02:36 Judges who Blog

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2014-10-22: Updated: 2014-10-22 12:28:14 Free Public Access to Federal Materials on “Guide to Law Online” (WOW x 1,000!)

By Laura Orr

2014-10-22: Updated: 2014-10-22 10:46:50 Student Research Resources Library (LLRX): Terrifying!

By Laura Orr

2014-10-22: Updated: 2014-10-22 10:43:32 Clients and Suicide: The Lawyer’s Dilemma (LLRX resource guide)

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2014-10-22: Updated: 2014-10-22 10:41:25 Internet of Things Resources (from LLRX)

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2014-10-17: Updated: 2014-10-24 09:55:44 Free Federal Tax Law Research: Legalbitstream and More

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2014-10-16: Updated: 2014-10-17 09:13:14 Fourth Annual Oregon Archives Crawl (10/18/14)

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 11:16:01 Where to Find Superseded Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) and the Oregon Bulletin

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 10:43:49 Legislative Words: What are Congressional “Terms,” “Sessions,” “Adjournment,” and “Recesses”?

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 10:34:53 BestLaw Add-on to WestlawNext

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 10:27:44 The Law Decoded: Virginia (beta test)

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 10:06:50 Taste for Justice: Access to Justice Fundraiser for St. Andrew Legal Clinic

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2014-10-14: Updated: 2014-10-14 10:01:47 Last Day to Register to Vote in Oregon (for Nov. 2014 election)

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2014-10-07: Updated: 2014-10-07 15:45:18 Transgender Rights under the U.S. Civil Rights Act: Mia Macy, Portland, OR, 10/16/14

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2014-10-07: Updated: 2014-10-07 14:43:12 Oregon Death with Dignity Law in Action

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2014-10-06: Updated: 2014-10-06 11:05:46 Oregon’s Stripper Lobby: Legislators Ask Exotic Dancers for Help With Strip Club Bill (Daily Beast)

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2014-10-02: Updated: 2014-10-02 08:33:54 Oregon Supreme Court: LLCs, Workers Comp, and Tort Claims: Cortez v. Nacco (2014)

By Laura Orr

2014-10-02: Updated: 2014-10-02 08:25:13 Oregon Supreme Court: Retired Public Servants, Health Care, and Private Rights of Action under ORS 243.303

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2014-09-29: Updated: 2014-09-29 13:44:02 Oregon CURE: Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants

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2014-09-29: Updated: 2014-09-29 13:40:26 Oregon Council on Court Procedures

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2014-09-29: Updated: 2014-09-29 13:36:34 What is a Grand Bargain?

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2014-09-26: Updated: 2014-09-26 10:28:53 Oregon Court of Appeals Judges

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2014-09-19: Updated: 2014-09-19 14:57:03 Law Libraries and Access to Justice, AALL Special Committee on Access to Justice 2014 Report

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2014-09-19: Updated: 2014-09-19 11:33:29 Possible Restoration of PACER Records

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2014-09-19: Updated: 2014-09-19 10:46:53 Oregon’s Multnomah Law Library Catalog is Now Online

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2014-09-19: Updated: 2014-09-19 10:22:55 Superseded ORS on the Oregon Legislature’s Website: 1953-1981

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2014-09-19: Updated: 2014-09-19 10:13:25 Documenting Ferguson: Digital Repository for Students, Teachers, and the Communuity

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2014-09-18: Updated: 2014-09-18 13:26:54 Oregon July 2014 Bar Exam Results

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2014-09-18: Updated: 2014-09-18 11:53:12 How to Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete with One Hand and Other One-Hand Keyboard Accessibility Tips

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2014-09-18: Updated: 2014-09-18 10:08:51 Authenticating Electronic Legal Materials: UELMA & Beyond (Program, San Diego, 1/9/15)

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2014-09-17: Updated: 2014-09-17 08:34:42 Lawyers on Social Media: Career Killer or Kickstarter?

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2014-09-16: Updated: 2014-09-16 14:59:07 New 2014 Edition: Universal Citation Guide

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2014-09-16: Updated: 2014-09-16 15:10:46 Small Claims Court Resources for Oregon Lawyers: CLEs, Video, Books, History

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2014-09-15: Updated: 2014-09-15 14:31:05 How to Dispose of Used Law Books – Maybe Even for Money!

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2014-09-09: Updated: 2014-09-09 14:36:23 Take the Multnomah Central (Circuit) Courthouse Community Survey

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2014-09-08: Updated: 2014-09-08 14:18:48 “Oregon Statutory Time Limitations” 2014 Edition (BarBooks)

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2014-09-08: Updated: 2014-09-08 14:13:15 Oregon Elder Abuse Reporting Requirement

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2014-09-05: Updated: 2014-09-05 09:01:49 Quotation of the Week, re Moving Work to Customers

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2014-09-05: Updated: 2014-09-05 08:55:55 Winners of 2014 Legal Fiction-writing Contests (ABA Journal)

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2014-09-04: Updated: 2014-09-04 14:18:56 PACER Update: How to Find Federal Court Documents Removed by the U.S. Administrative Office of the Courts

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2014-09-04: Updated: 2014-09-04 14:13:42 Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Ombudsmen Office

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-10-22 12:29:31 Federal Circuit Court Oral Argument Feed

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-08-28 14:01:37 Mandatory eFiling for Oregon Attorneys, December 1, 2014

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-08-28 13:57:39 PI Buzz Skip-Tracing Tips: Yelp & Craig’s List

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-08-28 13:39:22 Pronoun Puzzles: “He said, She said” in Oregon Legal Documents

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-08-28 13:36:11 Next time you say, “well, he must be guilty of something …”: Your Worst Nightmare

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2014-08-28: Updated: 2014-08-28 13:28:47 Intellectual Property Casebook: Free Creative Commons Download

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2014-08-27: Updated: 2014-08-27 10:33:56 Updates (and venting) on PACER and AOC Removal of Court Documents

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 10:02:26 It’s not all online, folks: PACER Removes Many Federal Court Documents

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 09:59:28 Burping at Lawyer: $1,500. Paying Attorney and Court Fees: Priceless.

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 09:56:14 Multnomah County Job: Executive Director, Office of Citizen Involvement

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 08:58:49 Notario Fraud Conference (Oregon State Bar CLE, 9/24/14)

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 08:05:50 Lifespan of CDs (NPR): How long do CDs last?

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2014-08-26: Updated: 2014-08-26 08:01:42 Oregon Texting as Hearsay, (alleged) Pimp (“promote prostitution”) Case (Court of Appeals)

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2014-08-13: Updated: 2015-01-29 14:18:55 Lawyer Ethics: Advising Marijuana Users and Businesses (Washington State)

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2014-08-12: Updated: 2014-08-12 11:39:10 Securities Lawyer’s Deskbook (Free)

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2014-08-12: Updated: 2014-08-12 11:12:13 Project Nanny Van (Open Law Lab)

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2014-08-12: Updated: 2014-08-18 14:58:22 How to Find Recent Oregon Attorney General Opinions (if you’re a mere mortal)

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2014-08-12: Updated: 2014-08-12 07:51:44 Wonk Alert: Jobs (Oregon) State Legislature

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2014-08-12: Updated: 2014-08-12 07:48:04 Link Rot (404/File Not Found) Symposium: October 24, 2014

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2014-08-08: Updated: 2014-08-08 14:55:33 Why People Don’t Ask for Legal Help: It’s Not Just About Money

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2014-08-07: Updated: 2014-08-07 14:00:52 Job (Oregon): State Public Guardian

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2014-08-07: Updated: 2014-08-07 13:58:28 Laughing Darkly: Human Frailty, Animal Comfort, Regulatory Food for Thought

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-08-06 12:52:12 ‘All jokes aside, when and why does a person “Take the fifth”?’

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-08-06 11:31:50 Wonk Alert: Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-10-22 12:30:38 Free Legal Research and Self-Help Resources in … St. Paul, Minnesota!

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-08-06 11:21:27 Is there a 2014 Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure (ORCP)?

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-08-06 11:11:40 Rotten World of Legal Citation: Link Rot and Reference Rot

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2014-08-06: Updated: 2014-08-06 11:07:24 How to Drive a Legal Editor Mad: To Verb is Human and/or To Adverb Divine?

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2014-07-31: Updated: 2014-07-31 07:50:37 What Happens if Your Library Systems Go Down?

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-07-29 14:06:58 Model Legal Templates: NVCA Model Venture Capital Financing Documents

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-07-29 13:52:18 Cell Phone Book Clubs: literacy, technology, family and community

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-07-29 13:43:34 Free Exercise of Religion by Closely Held Corporations: Implications of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (CRS Report)

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-07-29 11:33:25 Seven measures certified for Oregon 2014 ballot

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-07-29 09:21:20 Oregon Statewide Initiatives: How Many Signatures Are Needed? 116,284 or 87,213

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2014-07-29: Updated: 2014-10-22 12:31:10 Free Online Space Planning Tools for Libraries (and other spaces)

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2014-07-28: Updated: 2014-07-28 16:17:06 Android App: Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States

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2014-07-28: Updated: 2014-07-28 16:06:55 Blackstone’s Commentaries Go “Hollywood”: Free Video, with Bogart, Wells, but no Fish

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2014-07-28: Updated: 2014-07-28 16:08:05 Why You Need to Call the Police if Your Caregiver or Employee Steals From You

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2014-07-28: Updated: 2014-07-28 15:34:44 Access to Justice? “Change afoot in American civil justice system” (Legal Rebels)

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2014-07-25: Updated: 2014-07-25 09:28:38 “Airbnb guest won’t leave, forcing condo owner to begin eviction proceedings” (ABA News)

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2014-07-24: Updated: 2014-07-24 08:31:43 Can Lawyers Copyright their Briefs (so to speak): Think “Fair Use”

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2014-07-21: Updated: 2014-07-21 13:22:23 High Legal Research Cool Factor: wellsettled dot com

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2014-07-21: Updated: 2014-07-21 08:39:57 Judicial Funding Cuts Inflict Widespread Economic Harm in Communities

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2014-07-21: Updated: 2014-07-21 08:15:56 Grandparents and other Third-parties Seeking Custody of Children in Oregon

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2014-07-16: Updated: 2014-07-16 11:38:13 Fastcase 50: What is Your Legal Legacy?

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2014-07-16: Updated: 2014-07-22 11:15:54 Out-of-Cycle Changes to the Uniform Trial Court Rules (UTCR): Request for Public Comment

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2014-07-14: Updated: 2014-07-14 11:12:29 Legal Reference Tips for Oregon Public Service Librarians and Library Assistants

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2014-07-10: Updated: 2014-10-22 12:32:19 Guide to Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images

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2014-07-08: Updated: 2014-07-08 08:01:59 “Without Rockets it’s Just Science”: It’s a T-shirt! It’s a Comic! It’s a Hoot!

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2014-07-03: Updated: 2014-07-03 08:27:26 Educating Homeless Children: Legal Requirements (ABA Report)

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2014-07-02: Updated: 2014-07-02 08:18:33 “Only 15 percent of the unique volumes in U.S. law libraries have been digitized …”

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2014-07-02: Updated: 2014-07-02 08:08:44 Summer Reading: Law and Non-law Fiction for Attorneys

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2014-07-02: Updated: 2014-07-02 07:54:13 Musicians: 2014 Battle of the Oregon Law Bands: Application Due August First!

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2014-07-02: Updated: 2014-07-02 07:49:58 Human Lawyers (and Law Librarians) vs. Online Legal Services: It’s Not About You

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2014-06-30: Updated: 2014-06-30 12:56:35 Free One-Hour CLE for Oregon Attorneys: OSB BarBooks CLE (9/24/14)

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2014-06-30: Updated: 2014-06-30 12:50:22 Promoting Access to Justice with Oregon State Bar E-Books (on Amazon)

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2014-06-30: Updated: 2014-06-30 09:20:20 How to Find State Law Comparisons, Surveys, and Compilations

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2014-06-30: Updated: 2014-06-30 09:00:35 Death by Failure to Research: Could You Pass a Legal Research Competency Test?

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2014-06-27: Updated: 2014-06-27 09:28:49 Why are Passwords So Hard for Lawyers? (Inter-Alia)

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2014-06-26: Updated: 2014-08-08 13:57:21 Open Law Lab: “People don’t want to talk to lawyers, but they really want legal advice.”

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2014-06-24: Updated: 2014-06-24 13:35:45 Which Tech Companies Protect Your Online Data from Government Requests?

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2014-06-24: Updated: 2014-06-24 11:07:07 Clever Lawyer, Clever Code Track U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Rewrites

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2014-06-20: Updated: 2014-06-20 10:34:57 Borrow a Drone From Your Library?

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2014-06-20: Updated: 2014-06-20 10:30:39 A dog cannot recover for emotional distress? (Headnote of the Day.)

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2014-06-20: Updated: 2014-06-20 10:08:55 How is ‘certiorari’ pronounced? Even Supreme Court justices disagree

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2014-06-19: Updated: 2014-06-19 09:19:07 How to Find the Right Domain Name? Are you .Cool? .Blue? .Futbol? .Expert?

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2014-06-19: Updated: 2014-06-19 09:00:27 FBI Compiles Glossary of Internet Slang for Agents

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2014-06-17: Updated: 2014-06-17 09:21:29 OSB Publication Wins National Award: “Oregon Constitutional Law”

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2014-06-17: Updated: 2014-06-17 09:08:28 OSB Publications and PLF Practice Tips, Checklists, and Forms for Oregon Attorneys

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