Oregon lawyers and law librarians teach Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs (for little or no remuneration). Two upcoming programs from NBI:
1) I’m teaching one unit of this Legal Research CLE (NBI), that will be held in downtown Portland:
Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web
If one, or more, of these posts at LawSites doesn’t rock your lawyer or law librarian world, you might want to rethink your career choice:
‘Hackcess’ Winners to Teach MIT Course on Access to Justice
Launching Today: ‘Legal Hero’ Provides Fixed-Fee Legal Help to Small Businesses
From OSB Legal Publications blog:
“Available Now for Pre-order: Oregon Attorney Fee Codebook and Compilation, Vols. 1 and 2: This two volume set will include Oregon Attorney Fee Codebook and Oregon Attorney Fee Compilation. Don’t miss out on the preorder discount. Order your copies today by visiting our online bookstore. You may also contact our order desk at (503) 431-6413, or toll-free in Oregon, 1-800-452-8260. Pre-order discount ends December 1, 2014.”
I haven’t laughed this hard for a while – and I can’t say this Harvard Business Review blogger doesn’t offer *some* great advice. But I’m not so sure anyone below C or D level (C=Chutzpah, D=Dilbert) could carry off the “chat application” requirement without subordinates having a field day about it during happy hour:
From “Stop People From Wasting Your Time”:
Excerpt: “…. Force others to prepare. We all hope and expect that others will prepare for meetings with us. Surprisingly often, they don’t. Even when they’re requesting the meeting, they may have done very little research and waste our time with extremely basic questions they could have Googled. Instead, we need to force others to prepare in advance. “Force” is a harsh word, and that’s intentional — because it’s not burdensome for people who would have prepared anyway, yet it effectively weeds out the uncommitted. Debbie Horovitch, a specialist in Google+ Hangouts, has long offered complimentary initial strategy sessions, but realized that some people were taking advantage with irrelevant discussions.
Visit our Oregon Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course Materials in Law Libraries blog post for links.
And if you want to speak out on the future of CLE independent-study (i.e. borrowed and shared CLE course materials), read OSB President Tom Kranovich’s column in the August/September 2014 OSB Bulletin.
From the PLF Law Practice Management blog: “I Say Of Counsel You Say …” (posted 10/13/2014)
“Of Counsel relationships remain a strong area of interest for lawyers who are drawn to the idea of creating a professional affiliation. In that quest, there are many misunderstandings about what an of counsel relationship is ….” [Link to LPM blog post.]
The Oregon Law Practice Management blog says it best:
“Clients and Suicide: The Lawyer’s Dilemma,” by Ken Strutin, Published in LLRX on October 11, 2014
Gallagher law librarians alert us to the BestLaw add-on: Bestlaw – Improving WestlawNext Citations and Functionality
Direct link to bestlaw dot io (“A browser extension to add the features Westlaw forgot”)
Gallagher Blogs has a post about managing the lawyer’s (or law student’s) public face:
Screen Star or Social Media Trainwreck?
Oregon Legal Research Blog