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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.)

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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.

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From Law in the News:

“Utah opinion notes “numerous” law students report employment is conditioned upon criminal misuse of free Wexis access“

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.]

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You can read the Oregon State Bar (OSB) “2011 Unlawful Practice of Law Task Force Report“ at the OSB website (under the Surveys, Reports & Research tab, where you’ll find other useful reports).

You can also read Oregon laws about lawful and unlawful practice of law in Chapter 9 of the Oregon Revised Statutes.

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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.”]

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“Law School Theory vs. Practical Skills, One More Time,” at the Law Librarian Blog (December 15, 2011), links to Yale Professor Stanley Fish’s response to David Segal’s article in the New York Times on the Theory vs Practical Legal Skills debate.
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