Legal Research Plus brings our attention to the California Office of Legislative Counsel’s report on: “Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options, December 2011″
“Gallagher blogs” brings us “A Tour of Eight Famous Cases,” highlighting the new book:
“Is Eating People Wrong: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World”
Read the Oregon Secretary of State’s new Oregon Civics Toolkit: Free Lesson Plans Targeting Students 17-24.
Knowledge is power and knowledge of the law is a super-power and we’re never too old to learn something new.
From Law in the News:
Excerpt: “According to a recently released opinion from the Utah State Bar Ethics Advisory Committee, it is professionally unethical for a practicing attorney to ask a law student to use her free Lexis or Westlaw account for firm work. The big commercial legal research companies provide law students with free access to their services to help in the development of student legal research skills. Typically, students sign an agreement with the provider stating that they will use their free access only for educational and non-profit purposes….” [Link to full Legal Skills Prof blog post.]
Please note:
Oregon Circuit Court Filing Fee Changes Effective October 1, 2011, and January 1, 2012
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Researchers, scholars, and librarians have always had to evaluate the quality of information sources, including books, journals, speeches, and all other “information.”
We have to apply the same evaluations skills to online information sources – and so do you.
Here is a listing of evaluation tools and articles that may be useful if not interesting: “Information Quality Resources on the Internet,” by Marcus P. Zillman, Published on December 2, 2011:
The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission’s Commission on Public Safety issued its December 30, 2011 “Final Report to Governor Kitzhaber” (also known as the De Muniz Commission Report).
It’s that time of year when high school and college students start asking questions about “careers in the law.”
There is a lot of “recommended reading” at law school admissions websites and there are also a lot of “pre-law” and law student “Must Read” lists you can find using “the Google.” There is also this gem from the Volokh Conspiracy, but I’m not inclined to disillusion high school students with it, even though it is terribly funny.
[If you’re thinking about law school In the U.K., they have the wonderful Granville Williams “Learning the Law.”]
Did you every wonder where the phrase, “make a federal case out of it” came from? How about “hue and cry?” Or, “piercing the corporate veil?”
You can find these phrases and many more in the new book “Lawtalk: the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions,” by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro.
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