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Oregon Legislative Administrator:

(Closing date/time for application: Friday, 06/08/12, 11:59 PM, Pacific Time)

“The Legislative Administrator is selected by and serves as the full-time executive officer of the Legislative Administration Committee, a statutory joint legislative committee. (See ORS 173.710.) The committee has a continuing existence and functions whether or not the Legislative Assembly is in session. The Office of the Legislative Administrator coordinates the operations of the Legislative Assembly and the State Capitol. The Legislative Administrator manages the following departments critical to the operations of the Legislative Branch:  Committee Services, Facilities, Purchasing, Information Services, Media Services, Employee Services, Financial Services and Visitors Services….”

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The OSB Bulletin, May 2012 edition, has a good article on the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) in Oregon. (You can also find it from the OSB Bulletin archives, which are available to the public.)

The article is written for lawyers but everyone will find something useful in it – and the things you learn might save you time, aggravation, money, and self-respect.

“The Many Faces of UPL: Protecting the Public from the Unlawful Practice of Law,” by Amber Hollister

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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“

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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

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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:

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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

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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.)

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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.

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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:

Self-represented litigant resources

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