A colleague passed this along, from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Law Blog (and you can read other WSJ blogs, too):
“Survey Says! Paralegaling is a Better Job than Lawyering,” WSJ Law Blog, 1/6/11
The WSJ Law Blog seems to have a slightly higher caliber of Comments than some other news websites and blogs. See, e.g. their Oregon Supreme Court decision blog post (re Barger (SC S058345) and Ritchie (SC S057701 (Control), S057705):
While playing around with our newly installed OSB BarBooks database and came across this mysterious Boolean search: variable: 4 and weights:7
While waiting for the answer to reveal itself, I went off to catch up with my law library blogs and ran across this excellent research tip post at the KCCLL (King County Law Library) Klues blog:
“Cheat sheet” comparing Lexis and Westlaw search syntax Research Tips
It links to:
Despite cries from legislators and others that It’s All Online, in Oregon at least (and we really do know it’s the same in other places), IT IS NOT ALL ONLINE!
For example:
Have you ever tried to find an Oregon city or county code without these dance steps?
For my regular readers who might want a break from the holiday madness and might (ho ho ho) be wondering about that $5.2m verdict win in the lawsuit filed by 2 law professors against “West publishing” (now a family member of theThomson Reuters corporation) here are a some links:
The funniest Comment: “Regardless of such appeals, these two professors should be given credit for finally finding a way to become millionaires from a state law treatise. That alone will make them living Gods among legal academics.”
Every blogger has a “Comment” policy, written or unwritten. As “public sector” bloggers, we have responsibilities (to readers and employers) beyond our own narrow personal preferences.
I really like the Rules for Commenting that are posted at the Multnomah Law Library’s Social Software Policy for Multnomah County Library Users, and generally adhere to them myself:
Excerpt: “Rules for commenting
Protect your privacy. Do not post personally identifying information. Young people under age 18, especially, should not post information such as last name, school, age, phone number, address.
Online, FREE, access to cases from the Supreme Court of California (annotated).
Read many more great legal research tips at Legal Research Plus.
On December 9, 2010, the Oregon Supreme Court decided:
Barbara L. Hopkins v. SAIF Corp., et al., (WCB 0407794) (CA A138825) (SC S058081)
“… On review from the Court of Appeals in a judicial review from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board. Hopkins v. SAIF, 232 Or App 439, 222 P3d 1140 (2009)….
Librarians tend not to get their whatsits in a twist when it comes to information leaks. Maybe because leaks, censorship, privacy, and related issues are things we think about and deal with every week, every year, decade, century, in our libraries, our databases with patrons’ personal information, with literature, with book-buying, with library boards, parents, etc.
1) Unshelved Librarians (from 12/7/10)
2) You can also find a link to a Gallagher Law Librarian blog post on:
The Willamette Law School’s “United States Supreme Court News: Willamette Law Online” service, with case summaries and law updates, tells us about this latest U.S. Supreme Court decision:
“On December 13th, 2010 the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the case sumarized below:
Copyright Law (The first sale doctrine of 17 U.S.C. §109(a) does not apply to goods manufactured abroad and later imported into the United States).
If you’re not keeping up with the National Inventory of Legal Materials, then you’re not keeping up with the effort to make all online U.S. laws easily accessible to everyone. (But you are forgiven. It’s definitely a project for the government or law wonk – at least until you need to do some legal research of your own.)
1) National Inventory of Oregon Legal Materials
2) National Inventory of Legal Materials Bug Tracker
3) Previous posts on the National Inventory of Legal Materials (and Law dot Gov)
Oregon Legal Research Blog