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As President Obama has said, “… there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.” (Inaugural Address, 1/20/09) …

My view (below) is from the perspective of a law librarian and of someone who hires lawyers, so think of me as a Super (and maybe very annoying) Client, but who also talks to hundreds of people who are trying to find the right lawyer:

Two things lawyers who want to make a living (as lawyers) should never say, but that I hear said every day:

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The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition is sponsoring a Pedestrian Legal Clinic. Visit the WPC’s website for dates, times, locations of the clinics.

The WPC also has information about grants to enforce crosswalk safety laws and lots more at the website. (It’s also a very nice website – easy to read and navigate.)

I’m glad to see all this power to the pedestrian action. I’ve been puzzled by the new(ish) Share the Road program. Notice the parties who are being asked to Share the Road: 2+ wheeled motor vehicle drivers and pedalcyclists.

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Justice Bedsworth welcomes you to January 2009, with a legal puzzle of almost, hmm, biblical proportion.

Excerpt: “… Ms. Doe(4) closed the book on Chopin and Haydn one day and fired up the computer for a round of monster-battling, only to receive the disconcerting news that her virtual spouse had divorced her avatar. Divorced! Without warning!

No lipstick on the collar, no long unexplained business trips, no emotional withdrawal, no couples counseling, nothing! The sonofagun just said, “I divorce you,”(5) and moved on. Without explanation. Just left her there to fight the monsters alone.

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I don’t get too many opportunities to work through my “what I want to learn today” list (my LinkedIn site is languishing – sigh), but 12/18/08 was a SCRIBD day (or more accuately, a SCRIBD 30 minutes) (I really just like saying SCRIBD, SCRIBD, SCRIBD 🙂

In honor of SCRIBD Day, I posted 2 documents that took me a long time to get into my hot, little, grasping, law librarian hands (with the help of several others, including the Clackamas County Law Librarian and the San Bernardino County Law Librarian and their wonderful staff members, who are all just as pigheaded as I am when it comes to finding elusive documents).

I’ve uploaded Doe v. TS, RONALD, KRIS, and Bill, Case no. CV 0803 0693 (and supporting documents) and Ayyoub v. City of Oakland, Determination on Appeal from the (California) State Labor Commissioners, Case no. 99-02937 (by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations).

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It’s also not easy to do the right thing for a man and his monkey.

The Tyranny of Small Laws: Beds illuminates the way too difficult life of a compassionate bench officer (by Justice William W. Bedsworth):

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‘G.K. Chesterton said, “When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty. You do not even get anarchy. You get small laws.” And when you break the small laws, some poor judge gets another ulcer.

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It’s almost Plum Book time again (see also here for links to previous Plum Books). If you’ve ever thought about becoming a belly-of-the-beast public servant (appointed) and working in Washington D.C. for a new Presidential administration, now is the time to get your resume out and buffed up.

Prepare to compete for jobs with the best and the brightest – very exciting!

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Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his, not to be missed, November column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:

“Is That a Kielbasa in Your Pocket? Time for year-end awards to be passed out. Here’s the first one”:

“…God, in Her wisdom, has seen to it that the Yankees still haven’t won a pennant in the 21st Century, so we know that there are some fronts on which the forces of evil and sloth have been reduced to a holding action. But a year that winds down with the Secretary of the Treasury holding a gun to the economy and saying, “Give me $700 billion dollars in unmarked bills or Wall Street dies,” is not one you’re gonna want to paste into your memory book next to the senior prom.

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From the media release:

“David V. Brewer, Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, recently received the 2008 Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest awards presented by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The Distinguished Service Award is presented annually to a person who has made longstanding contributions to the improvement of the justice system and who has supported the mission of the National Center….” (read full release)

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