An Oregon Law Practice Management, 9/10/12 post aims to get you to think outside the big city box:
New Solos: Go Where You’re Needed
Lawyers aren’t the only ones who are confused, befuddled, and bedeviled:
Yahoo highlights a terrific Monster dot com consumer alert article:
Visit Oregon’s One Stop Business Portal, whether you are thinking about starting a business in Oregon, need to research permits and licenses, want to pay your taxes, need financing for your business, or need to find answers to dozens of other questions business owners have (except, perhaps, what happened to the missing “e” in “xpress”).
Consumers have business websites, too:
The Oregon Law Practice Management blog has a Sept. 4, 2012, post about:
Neil Armstrong, his predecessors, and his successors hold a permanent spot in the hearts of many of us who dreamed the “I could be an astronaut!” dream and remember the tragedies and triumphs of our outer space pioneers, whether they wielded slide rules at ground control or landing gear on spaceships or died in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure, and a chance to touch the stars.
Governor Kitzhaber orders flags at half-staff in honor of Neil Armstrong.
“DEATH OF NEIL ARMSTRONG, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION
A Law dot com news feed article: “Skadden Associate, Herself a Rape Victim, Dives into Akin Fray,” by Brian Baxter, Am Law Daily, 8/22/12, got me wondering about Oregon’s law:
“…. Prewitt says that 31 states have not yet adopted special laws that restrict the ability of rapists to assert their custodian and visitation rights to a child born through rape. The other 19 states—Delaware, Oregon, and Pennsylvania have added protections since the publication of Prewitt’s law review article in 2010—have laws that restrict the access of rapists to the children they fathered….” [Link to full Law dot com article.]
If you search the ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes) Index, under Sex Offenses-Rape, you will be referred to these sections, which today read as follows, but please, talk to an attorney if you need legal advice!
The Oregon voter registration deadline for the November 2012 election is: October 16, 2012
Visit the Oregon Secretary of State OregonVotes dot org website for links to online registration, registration sites, information about the November ballot, and much more.
Or, visit your county election office.
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The vote in Congress on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148 (2010)) was as follows:
(Source: Thomas dot gov, August 27, 2012)
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