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The latest Nolo newsletter (May-June 2011) asks us to Take the Nolo Librarian Survey:  Nolo wants to understand how librarians buy their materials. To help them out (and they are already VERY library and librarian friendly), take the survey – win prizes for your library.
If this link “Take the Nolo Librarian Survey!” doesn’t work, try …
… from the Nolo Newsletters webpage, click on the Email Newsletters link – you want the May / June 2011 Newsletter that has the Take the Nolo Librarian Survey! blurb.
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Nolo has this really great checklist for anyone wanting to start a business – and wanting to do so methodically:
Oregon (and other states) has lots of great small business websites with links to a zillion other necessary and useful How to Start a Business information.
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Read the Nolo announcement at their website: “We are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Internet Brands, a new media company based in El Segundo, California….” [Read full announcement.]
You can also read about this at the IB CEO’s blog, welcoming Nolo.
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Visit the Portland Community College (PCC) Workshop, Second Saturday Workshop website on this divorce counseling for women program.
The National Second Saturday website gives the impression there is or will be a Divorce Counseling for Men program.
Also, don’t forget to check your local nonprofit and government family law resources for additional free and low-cost divorce counseling options.
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What would we do without Nolo Press?!
Their excellent blogs, their legal research guide and law dictionary, their tons of online self-help information, their free podcasts, their free online books (wowsers!), and of course, their self-help books and products on everything from soup to nuts, dog law to LLCs.
Happy Birthday, Nolo, and our best wishes for many more to come!
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I recently had a question about restraining orders, which sent me looking up information about Oregon’s Family Abuse and Prevention Act, known as FAPA. In the process, I realized that our blog’s link to the useful “Revised FAPA Benchguide 2006” had moved far, far away – well, just to the Oregon Judicial Department’s FAPA forms website. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link to the .pdf.

The State of Oregon FAPA forms on that same page may also be of interest, although it is important to first see if you local circuit court has FAPA forms specific to your county. If they do exist, they are usually found in the Family Law section of the website. For instance, the Washington County Circuit Court’s restraining order forms can be found here.

Other important and related resources concerning restraining orders, abuse prevention, and domestic violence include:

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A free legal search engine: The Indian Kanoon search engine (about).

Furthering the Free Access to Law Movement (about which you can read much more at the Cornell LII blog post Accessible Law):

… the Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII) brings us a fascinating blog post: Indian Kanoon: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst:

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The 2011 OSB & LASO Bankruptcy Clinic schedule is out:

The Bankruptcy Clinic classes are held on Tuesday evenings, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Appointments follow the classes. There is no child-care available.

The Clinics begin at 6:15 p.m. and start with a bankruptcy class taught by a judge or experienced bankruptcy lawyer. Class are open to all residents of Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties.

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Gallagher Blog links us to this article:

“Counsel Over Cocktails? What to do when friends and family ask for legal advice,” by Trent M. Latta

(You will also find this article at the WSBA website: “Foreign Concept: Explore working abroad before giving up on a legal career,” by Arundel Pritchett)

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