When Private Investigators (like PI Buzz), Genealogists, and iLibrarians collaborate, Information Magic happens. For example:
PI Buzz’s Private Investigator Research Links from August 2012 include this:
Places for Finding a Woman’s Maiden Name: A Checklist of 90 Sources (from an Aug. 17 post at the Genealogy Blog, which has lots of other great posts)
What is better than finding something both fun and useful – at least for lawyers and law librarians?
From Yale Law School, this gem:
Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States
This is a complex area of employment law and you can never read too much about it. The Oregon Law Practice Management blog has this 12/3/12 post:
“Mission Impossible: Independent Contractor in Oregon”
Excerpt: ‘For those of you who like to use “independent contractors” (contract lawyers, contract paralegals, freelance legal secretaries) take heed. Your contractor may well be an employee.
Running a nonprofit is serious business requiring serious business and nonprofit management skills.
Colleges and universities offer classes on nonprofit management, e.g. the Institute for Nonprofit Management at PSU, and so does the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.
This one on Nonprofit Financial Fundamentals is coming up in January 2013 at a Beaverton location.
Quick and Dirty Research Strategy:
1) Make an outline of your Quick and Dirty Legal Research strategy and take good notes as you proceed, especially keeping track of citations, effective keywords, and other results you find along the way.
2) Search Google or other search engine: You can find official and unofficial statutes, appellate court briefs, law review articles, case law, subject-specialist lawyer and law professor blogs, and much more.
CALI and the Legal Information Institute join forces to provide free ebooks of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence.
“The 2013 Editions (effective December 1, 2012) as well as the 2012 and 2011 editions can be found on the eLangdell Bookstore.
Oregonian v. The Honorable Nan G. Waller and State Of Oregon
(Filed October 24, 2012 (Multnomah County Circuit Court 091116280, Court of Appeals A148488))
“BREWER, J.
OSPIRG has updated their Oregon Renters’ Handbook.
There is not a date to be found in the Handbook itself, but the OSPIRG Oregon Renters’ Handbook webpage says, 10th edition, updated 8/8/12, and that’s good enough for me in this instance.
A law degree can be a gift that keeps on giving, assuming you use it well and that it was the right thing for you to spend time and money on in the first place.
I recommend some good career coaching if you’re not sure The Law is for you – and maybe, also, sitting in on a law school class or taking an undergraduate or adult education course on the law.
And even if you’re not fixed on a job as A Lawyer, a law degree can still serve you very well indeed:
Guidelines for Open Data Policies (and more from the Sunlight Foundation and Open Congress)
Everyone likes open data, government transparency, consumer protections, and life online, but do you ever think about what it costs to make these happen?
Oregon Legal Research Blog