Oregon Legal Research BlogLast May I blogged about this article:
One Woman, One Vote x 26 Equals the First Woman Mayor, All Woman City Council in 1916 Umatilla, Oregon
And just saw this on Yahoo News about 1920 Yoncalla, Oregon:
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Inaugural Stand-Alone SRLN Equal Justice Program Scheduled for February 2017
The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) is an organization for Access-to-Justice (A2J) professionals, lawyers, judges, law librarians, law professors, law students, and others who believe that everyone has a right to free or affordable legal assistance and access to courts.
The “2017 SRLN Conference will be held February 23 -24, 2017 at the California Judicial Council building in San Francisco.”
The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) is “establishing a permanent Conferences Committee as part of the Strategy and Outreach Working Group….” Locate SRLN members where you work to find out how you can contribute.
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Access to Justice: ABA Report from Commission on Future of Legal Services
Read the ABA article and the report:
“Can the access-to-justice gap be closed? These recommendations might make it possible,” by Victor Li and James Podgers, ABA Journal, August 06, 2016.
And read Bob Ambrogi’s comments on the report, at his LawSites Blog post:
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Oregon State Law Librarian is a 2016 Fastcase 50 List Winner
We love reading the Fastcase 50 list to find out who is doing what, why, where, and how – and especially so when there is an Oregonian on the list.
Read the 2016 Fastcase 50 list and previous lists, back to 2011, when the List was born.
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New Oregon Legislative Agency: Office of Legislative Policy and Research
Article in the Salem Statesman Journal:
“Oregon Legislature hires top researcher,” Gordon Friedman, Statesman Journal, July 27, 2016
Excerpt: “Christopher Reinhart has been hired as the first director of a new legislative agency in Oregon, the Office of Legislative Policy and Research….” [Link to full article.]
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Baseball’s Magna Carta: Setting the Rules of America’s Game
Baseball’s Magna Carta: Setting the Rules of America’s Game: An exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society.
(See also the Battered Bastards of Baseball, a documentary.)
“July 1 – October 9, 2016
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Oregon Access to Justice Forum (Portland, September 2016)
Oregon Access to Justice Forum, September 2016:
The Multnomah Bar Association (MBA) has this event on its calendar and you can link to more information and registration from the Oregon Campaign for Equal Justice website and this event’s Registration site.
“Access to Justice Forum/Advisory Committee Meeting
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Guidelines on Public Rights of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records (Mass.)
Massachusetts has Guidelines on the Public Rights of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records.
This seems to be a relevant post for us here at the Oregon Legal Research Blog given the most recent statewide and local Oregon difficulties (to put it mildly) public officials are having with the true meaning and spirit of our Public Records Laws. (And remember the 2006 Multnomah County Auditor’s report on eliminating barriers to access to public records? There are many more of those, er, aspirational public records proclamations, where that came from, local and statewide. Sigh.) (By the way, Auditor or “accountability” reports at many levels of government are a great research resource.)
These particular Massachusetts’ guidelines start off with this statement of their:
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“Desk Set” (the movie) and the 2016 Robot Lawyers
If you’re not tracking news of Robot Lawyers then you’re not keeping up with the legal research profession.
No, not a “robotic” lawyer, but the Artificial Intelligence (AI) kind. See lots of robot, and AI related, lawyer news at LawSites and 3 Geeks and a Law Blog.
These developments are neither good nor bad. It’s a process and you have time to think, explore, experiment, and eventually panic, as humans always do. (Look at Wall Street traders. They panic sooner and more than almost anybody, although, admittedly, many of them are ruled by robots and robotic mentors.)
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Brexit, Huh? And the Brits Think Our Elections are Crazy
So, a one-time 52 to 48 percent [Brexit, Wikipedia article] popular vote is a solid basis for making massive economic, political, and social changes to the governance of the Not So United Kingdom and the larger European Union of 28 (at the moment) member states. Huh? Ain’t Democracy grand?!
Even tennis, baseball, soccer and basketball teams get to play more than one game to determine who wins.
We have much to learn from what happens next (and after that, and after that, …) and there will be an awful lot of discussion, hand-wringing, foreboding, fear, panic, etc. (Just like the lead up to our November 2016 elections!)