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?
If you are thinking about a career in “legal information” or advancing your career in “legal information,” this is a useful birds-eye snapshot of the profession(s):
“AALL/ILTA Digital White Paper: The New Librarian,” 10/15/12:
“The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) has collaborated to create a white paper on the set of skills needed for today’s librarian and information services professionals. Whether it is Knowledge Management, working with Practice Groups, Competitive Intelligence, Electronic Books, or the evolving trends within Legal Research or Emerging Technology, ….” [Link to full 3 Geeks and a Law Blog post.]
The “Law via the Internet Conference” will be held in Ithaca, NY, October 7-9, 2012:
Among other programs, this one promises to be provocative:
“Can We Trust What’s Online? Conclusions from the National Inventory of Legal Materials.”
Gavel to Gavel blog (a review of state legislation affecting the courts) had this September 4th post:
Excerpt:
Law librarians teach law students and new lawyers that state and federal appellate court briefs are treasure troves, but they are not the easiest documents to search.
For example, in Oregon, unless you have a subscription to Lexis or Westlaw, and can afford to buy into their briefs databank, and need to search only relatively recent briefs, you have to resort to needle-in-a-haystack types of research. (A law librarian can recommend some research tips, but the research still takes time.)
Web-based, publicly-accessible, moderately priced, and searchable digital briefs banks rise and fall, but that’s a good thing. One needs to experiment a lot to find the right online business model and database. To read about a recent effort:
Justice Bedsworth’s take on these matters makes as much sense as anyone’s – and maybe a little more. And he’s a real judge! (Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.)
OC Lawyer, A Criminal Waste of Space: September 2012: Schools by the NCAA
Excerpt: “…. So we, greenhorns all, learned the rules of evidence and the complexities of human nature by trying misdemeanors. If you dropped the blood vial in a driving-under-the-influence case and watched it shatter on the floor—as actually happened to one of my contemporaries—you were not turning a puppy-raper loose on society. If you over-prosecuted a petty theft case, it was unlikely your mistake would change the earth’s rotational rate.
Oregon Legal Research Blog