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Fastcase offers free webinars to subscribers; some include free CLE credit.  Check at the Fastcase webinar webpage and use the drop-down menu to find Oregon.
OSB members: Please double-check with the Oregon State Bar to make sure you can claim CLE credit for the webinar(s) you attend.
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“Free 1 hour CLE (Portland) – Friday Dec. 2, 2011 at noon at Multnomah County Circuit Court.
OWLS and OMLA members – there will be a FREE CLE next Friday to discuss/explain the new Multnomah County Circuit Court Supplementary Rules which go into effect on February 1, 2012.  The CLE is on December 2nd at noon in courtroom 208 (presiding court) of the Multnomah County courthouse in downtown Portland.
You can read the DRAFT proposed rules (the new rules are 2.011, 7.011, and 7.015).”
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Yes, Virginia, lawyers can follow their bliss.
I noticed a reference to the Portland Law Collective and it got me thinking about the law students and lawyers I have worked with over the past 25 years, and my own musings over “what can one do with a law degree?”
The list is endless – and exciting:
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Do you have what it takes not only to enjoy law school classes, but not to fall asleep when you hear someone talk about indebitatus assumptsit, a conditional devise, malum in se, expiation, scienter, asportation, or chattel paper?
(It gets worse: You have to read statutes drafted by legislators and decisions written by judges. Torture, indeed, unless of course you are a budding Clarence Darrow or David Boies.)
If you want to learn a little about the law, try some free online seminars, from:
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Only a few people have that gift that can make people laugh and cry at the same time: Mark Twain, Molly Ivins, and others.  Sometimes I think we can include on that list California appellate court’s:
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It’s that time of year again when Oregon lawyers ask about:
CLEs in Oregon public law libraries
And, here are some other research guides that may be of use to Oregon lawyers, support staff, and self-represented litigants:
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If you are new to the Law Librarian Consumer Advocacy Caucus discussion (and Petition) and want some history and to enter the conversation:
1) For law librarians and law library managers: there is a Petition being circulated by the Consumer Advocacy Caucus (including Comments)
2) There are several websites/blogs where you can find of information on the Caucus and the Petition – see below for a list.
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“Legal Aid funding cuts hit Marion and Polk Counties,” at the Law for Real People blog, posted 09/06/2011

Excerpt: “…We need to recognize legal aid as a kind of community public health resource, like a free vaccination clinic — because when we ignore the legal needs of the poor, they don’t just magically disappear, they get worse and become far more difficult and expensive to deal with.  When society doesn’t fund vaccines for the poor, it’s not just the poor who suffer.  Same with civil law.  Sure we can shave a few bucks off the legal aid budget every year after year after year — but then we wonder why we, to take just one example, have to spend so much more to try to educate kids who change schools five and six times in two years (because the parent’s inability to defend themselves against an abusive debt collector caused wage garnishment and loss of housing, leading to a vicious downward spiral of unemployment and underemployment, which causes housing and food insecurity, which raises the likelihood of student failure, dropping out, and other social maladaptations)….“ (Link to full post.)
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