1) There are many kinds of willful blindness, personal, financial, criminal, etc. A recent story about the Sandusky trial mentioned the following book. I started reading it over the weekend and it’s hard to put down:
“Willful Blindness,” by Margaret Heffernan
2) If you need another good summer read, try this one:
“People before profit: the inspiring story of the founder of Bob’s Red Mill,” by Ken Koopman
Nancy Bergeson: Ardent Advocate Lecture Series
Speaker: Colleen Scissors — Remembering Defense Basics: Building Trust and Humanizing Our Clients
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Portland, OR
“.…Nancy Bergeson was a career-long public defender whose legal acumen was matched only by her uncanny ability to empathize with her clients….” [Link to OCDLA announcement.]
On June 15, 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court adopted a new rule:
APR 28, entitled “Limited Practice Rule for Limited License Technicians”
You can link to the text of the new rule and the final order from:
For more information on animal law research, see our new Animal Law legal research guide. As always, if you need to find a document quickly on the law library’s website, please see the Document Index. All of our legal research guides are available in the Subject Guides section of the law library’s website.
Lawyers and librarians who buy legal books and databases rely on the stupendous “Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual” and we welcome the latest 2012 edition.
You can read more about this peerless buyers’ guide and legal reference tool at the New England Law Press website.
Lawyers are not immune to scamery (so to speak), or so it seems:
1) “Lawyers Scammed Over Email” (Gallagher Blogs)
2) Read more at Law Technology News: “Law Firm Flimflam Scam Continues,” by Tam Harbert, Law Technology News, June 8, 2012
Have you ever wondered about the questions public law librarians are asked? Have you ever thought that answers to lawyer and non-lawyer legal questions are “all online?”
Think again!
The Oregon Special Law Library Association (ORSLA) asked the question. Read the answers (and a few samples below). Public law librarians around the country will recognize these:
The April 2012 Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin contains a detailed summary of this interesting case about blogging, bloggers, journalism, defamation, and the law: Obsidian Finance Group, LLC and Kevin D. Padrick v. Crystal Cox (3:2011cv00057) (D. Or. Nov. 30, 2011) (Motion for new trial denied Mar. 27, 2012) (Appeals filed March 30, 2012, and April 25, 2012)
“The Poster Child: How Oregon’s Blogging Defamation Case Attracted National Attention,” by Janine Robben.
Excerpts:
“Last November, a federal jury in Portland found a vitriolic, Montana-based blogger liable for $2.5 million for defaming an Oregon State Bar member and his company online. On March 27, 2012, a U.S. District Court judge denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial, setting the stage for an appeal that will be followed by First Amendment lawyers, bloggers and traditional journalists around the country.
Oregon Legal Research Blog