Small businesses in Oregon and Washington have a lot of legal resources from which to draw information and advice. I’ve blogged about Small Business Law before and recently have been watching this latest entry into the field:
Northwest Small Business Law Blog: Links, news articles, and original content regarding small business law in Oregon and Washington
Give them a try. They have links to lots of small business legal resources.
The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program fall trainings are co-sponsored by the Veterans Law Section of the Federal Bar Association and supporting law firms. The trainings will be in Portland OR, Salt Lake City UT, Phoenix, AZ, and Washington, DC.
(The Portland, Oregon, training will be on Monday, October 26, 2009, at Perkins Coie LLP.)
There is specific information about these daylong trainings at the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program website.
Law librarian colleagues brought a Legal Informatics Blog post to my attention: Susskind on the End of Lawyers.
There are a zillion links to commentary on the book. I found Carolyn Elefant’s 3/24/09 My Shingle blog post and Comments particularly interesting – and practical: And what it means for solos.
The list of Oregon law blogs is growing. Check out Justia’s Oregon Law Blogs list and my own sidebar list of Oregon law blogs. Neither is absolutely complete and non-Oregon bloggers also write about Oregon law.
I recently added to my sidebar list the NW HOA Law Center, which has an excellent blog where lawyers write detailed posts on condo and HOA legal issues.
One easy way to track blog posts on Oregon law is to go to the Justia Blawg Search, type in the word Oregon, and then click on Sort By Date (upper-right hand of screen).
Has any librarian not linked to and blogged about this post on 100 Terrific Tips and Tools for Blogging Librarians? Most of these tips will be useful to anyone who wants to be a good blogger.
Writers write about writing and bloggers blog about blogging. We all have much to learn.
The Pacific Northwest Paralegal Association (PNPA) is offering this course:
An ethics program, Confidentiality: A Responsibility of Legal Staff, presented by Beverly Michaelis, JD, of the Professional Liability Fund. The registration form is available at http://www.blogger.com/www.pnwpa.org. The registration deadline is Friday, August 14th, 2009.
(Always confirm date and time shortly before any scheduled event).
Having problems with the lawyer someone recommended to you or who you thought was recommended by an “online service” or a “best ever lawyers in the whole wide world” list?
It is not enough just to get a recommendation for a lawyer who can help you with your legal problem. You need to do a some preliminary research and have a conversation about fees and service with that lawyer.
If you do absolutely nothing else before you hire a lawyer, please:
The tips at this post, 20 Tips to Manage your Online Social Life, which I linked to from iLibrarian, piqued my curiosity. They may pique yours too – or not.
For me, it’s not so much my “social life” that needs managing. I can do that perfectly well or at least to my own satisfaction. It’s the work-related networks that start to feel overwhelming.
Mind Mapping isn’t new, but it has taken me a while to absorb its usefulness and adapt it. Password control is a necessity, but the right method eludes me still. These tips may not be exactly right for you, but they will keep your Organization-Maven Juices flowing in the right direction. Twenty tips are a bit much; I like new ideas in small bites, e.g. 3-4 tips at a time, max. But I can manage 🙂
Non-attorneys don’t often realize the amount of preparation that is required to prepare for a case, whether it’s researching, drafting documents, communicating with opposing counsel, appearing in Small Claims or Traffic Court, or before a judge in conference or at trial, and every interaction with the judicial system in between.
Lawyers learn and develop their own trial notebooks, paper and online, and pro se litigants need to do the same, without all the seminars and other training lawyers get on trial notebook preparation.
But here’s a good place to begin if you want to know what a trial notebook is: from the King County, Washington, Reference Librarian on their KCLL Klues Blog: Trial Notebook for Family Law.
Journalists have ethical codes and so do librarians and lawyers. (Librarians also have a intellectual freedom codes, which might answer some of your question about why we can be so pigheaded).
Do Bloggers Share an Ethical Code?, posted at attorney Donald Vanarelli’s blog, is worth reading:
Excerpt: “According to a recent study published in the June 2009 edition of the New Media & Society journal entitled doing-the-right-thing-online-a-survey-of-bloggers-beliefs-and-practices, bloggers share a group of ethical principals. This first large-scale survey of blogging ethics identified four underlying ethical principles important to bloggers: truth telling, accountability, minimizing harm and attribution...” (link to full post)
Oregon Legal Research Blog