Event: Access to Justice and Bar Leaders Conference, June 8–10, 2012 in Yakima, Washington:
Topic: “Our New Economic Reality: The Legal Profession’s Role in partnership with the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State Access to Justice Board“
If you’re feeling a bit nervous about your chosen profession, it may (or may not) help to take a look at the Newspaper Death Watch blog.
But keep in mind that it’s one thing to ignore the past, but quite another to think you can predict the future.
The Civil Rights Section of the Oregon State Bar presents a free public forum:
Our Streets: The Police, The Public, & the Law (flyer, PDF)
When: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012: 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Where: Portland State University; Smith Memorial Student Union (SW Park & Harrison), Room 296
Tweeting is summertime, which travels at 200 MPH.
Blogging is like the rest of the year, which travels 10-55 MPH.
Tweeting is shorthand and says, now, now, now!
Blogging and other online writing are slow food, and say think, breathe, and think again before acting.
Here are some tips on creating better slow content:
Do you have questions about … debt collection, bankruptcy, employment (wage claims, termination, discrimination & unemployment), or expungement of a criminal record?
Oregon attorneys volunteering at these two Pro Bono Legal Clinics may be of assistance. Link to clinic flyers from the Washington County Law Library What’s New? webpage:
1) Oregon Law Center & Intel Corporation’s Pro Bono Debt Clinic
The Washington County Bar Association (WCBA) is presenting an April 11th, 2012, CLE titled “Rainmaking,” with popular CLE presenter, attorney David Markowitz.
For location, time, and cost information, please visit the WCBA website. (Details will soon be on the homepage Upcoming Events link or look in the April 2012 Newsletter.)
Many of us love “agony aunt” and other Q&A columns where we get to read about other people’s problems and the relationship, ethics, financial, and business advice the Agony Aunt/Uncle dishes out.
Many of them are also quite good, in a daily horoscope sort of way, where the advice is drafted to provide maximum encouragement and minimum (actionable) harm, with a strong dose of common sense.
However, if you plan to take the “advice” and act on it, please, please be a smart consumer and consult a lawyer (or other appropriate professional) when the answer seems too good (too easy, too glib) to be true, and especially if it could affect your health, finances, family, etc.
We work with a lot of public library reference librarians and library assistants and are always on the lookout for materials that could help them help their public library patrons who ask legal reference and legal research questions.
One day we’ll write that quick and dirty legal reference guide for public libraries, but in the meantime, the Drake Law Library in Iowa has linked to, and annotated, a list of many of my favorite guides at their website that explain the unauthorized practice of law, differences between legal information and advice, and legal research techniques:
Oregon Personal Injury Lawyer Blog has this informative post: “Another Remedy for Clients Ripped Off by Oregon Lawyers,” March 20, 2012
“People call me when they have trouble with their lawyers. Often they want me to sue for legal malpractice. However, Oregon provides another route to seek compensation when a client loses money because an Oregon attorney is dishonest or crooked. That’s the Client Security Fund….” (Read the full blog post.)
Disclaimer: The information provided on this blog is for research purposes only. We do not provide legal advice, nor do we endorse any person, product, or company.
Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites blog post on the new book, A Thorough Guide to Freelance Lawyering, by Alaska attorney Kimberly L. Alderman, will intrigue a lot of lawyers – and law librarians (!).
Freelancing is not for everyone, but if you have an adventurous spirit and can figure out how to pay the bills until your practice is up and running, this book might be a good place to begin to plan for the future.
Oregon Legal Research Blog