When researching Oregon attorney fee issues, these are useful (outdated, but still helpful) supplements to your primary and current law research:
1) OLI CLE course book, “Effective Litigation of Attorney Fee Claims and Defenses,” April 1, 2005
2) OLI CLE course book, “Successful Prosecution and Defense of Claims for Attorney Fees,” April 25, 2003
If you thought legal research skills were icing on the cake, think again:
Lawyers have an ethical duty to perform adequate legal research. (And, clients might expect a bit more than “adequate.”)
I meet more Oregon attorneys who don’t know about this wonderful news than attorneys who do know, so here goes:
Starting January 1, 2010, the OSB BarBooks database will be available and free to ALL members of the Oregon State Bar.
(Many Oregon county law libraries will have subscriptions to the database, too.)
Read more about the database or contact the OSB (not me, please), if you have questions.
Bankruptcy law is federal law so you want to look not only at Oregon attorney, law firm, and legal blogs, but also at federal bankruptcy online resources. (There are print bankruptcy legal resources but this blog post focuses on the online “current awareness” blogs only, or primarily.)
Federal Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Oregon
I list below a few Oregon bankruptcy attorney blogs, selected from the many excellent Oregon attorney websites, many of which have a lot of information but are not strictly speaking “blogs.” (And, please see the Disclaimer, below.)
There were several interesting articles in the August / September 2010 Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin (or link from OSB archives), including one on “missing and misunderstood” evidence, another on unbundled legal practice (aka limited scope legal assistance), and this one on lawyers who don’t pay other lawyers for costs incurred on their clients’ behalf (behalves?).
Lawyers will want to read the article and non-lawyers may find the analysis of the legal ethics and associated legal issues generated by the question not a little bit instructive (or educational, if you prefer):
The article, Bar Counsel: Dealing with Debts: There Oughtta Be a Rule! (But There Isn’t), by Sylvia Stevens (OSB Executive Director):
Excerpt: “Recently, I heard from an arbitrator (a respected trial lawyer of many years’ experience) who was distressed at being “stiffed” when the lawyer for one of the parties in an arbitration refused to pay the arbitrator’s fee on the ground that he was unable to collect it from his client. My caller was certain he had seen authority in years past obligating lawyers to pay the litigation expenses of other professionals that were incurred on behalf of their clients. I replied that I was not aware of any such authority in Oregon. Moreover, I had always believed that the issue was governed by agency law and was not a matter of professional regulation….” (Link to full article.)
The OSB has had a winning line-up of new books released this year, and the latest one “Rights of Foreign Nationals“is as welcome to lawyers and law librarians as the previous titles were, which include:
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites alerts us to this wonderful opportunity:
Law School Offers Free Online Course in Health Reform Law:
“Innovation, Business & Law Colloquium: Health Care Reform Act
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Prof. David Orentlicher
University of Iowa College of Law
Craig Colby v. Karen Gunson, State Medical Examiner (SC S057691) (August 26, 2010)
Excerpt (from August 26, 2010, OJD Media Release):
“On review from the Court of Appeals in an appeal from the Marion County Circuit Court, Albin W. Norblad, Judge. 229 Or App 167, 210 P3d 917 (2009).
People who work in the legal community don’t generally ask us this question, but ordinary mortals do. I am an ordinary mortal too, mostly, so the question seemed well worth a blog post on the subject:
Before trying to track down that transcriptionist, aka transcriber, or even doing it yourself:
1) First, make sure you know what is on the CD and how it was recorded. For example, Oregon Courts use FTR (“For The Record”) to record trials. Is that what is on your CD?
If you haven’t yet discovered how much excellent information can be buried inside law firm websites, here is another example: Latham and Watkins Books of Jargon, including “book” on corporate and banking finance jargon.
See previous OLR blog on Law Firm Websites and Blogs.
(Thank you to 3 Geeks and a Law Blog for the hot tip!)
Oregon Legal Research Blog