You may be willing to give up security and confidentiality on your own behalf, but when you’re talking about your clients and other second and third parties, you have to do a little more research, and have a little more care.
This was interesting:
Law Firm Bans iPhone Due to Security Risks from Ride the Lightning:
Let’s say I wanted to find this case, Mayfield vs. United States (a December 10th, 2009, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opinion). (And I might want to find the case so I can write a postscript to this Shaggy (Law Librarian) Dog Tale.)
When I use Google Legal Scholar, specifying federal court and 2009, and the search <brandon mayfield united states> I get nothing. When I use the same search in native Google, with only the date limiter, I get in the first page of results several links to the actual case, including the link on the court’s website.
There are a number of technical reasons for this (and a few flawed human being reasons, too), and I will leave those to be explained by Search Engine Scientists, but woe to the untrained (or unthinking) legal researcher who thinks that Google (or that other “I looked it up on The Internet” place) is where one researches an actual case.
Do you need quick links to other states’ business filings databases?
Kathy Biehl‘s “Research RoundUp: Business Filings Databases” was updated at LLRX on December 5, 2009.
You will find lots of other legal research tools at LLRX, including, but not limited to their LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets database, Legal Research, and Librarian resources.
1) From the QPR Institute, a free download of:
“Suicide the Forever Decision, For those Thinking about Suicide and for Those who Know, Love and Counsel Them,” by Paul Quinnett, Ph.D
(You will need WinZip (a free WinZip link is provided) to download or Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the book online.)
From Oregon Laws, I saw this: Who Let the Dogs Out, by Ray Thomas, which shows you why it may behoove you to talk to a lawyer or do some extremely thorough legal research when bicycles and dogs intertwine.
“… There are a number of widely held but mistaken beliefs about loose dogs. One is that only the owner of the loose dog is responsible for damages….” (read full Ray Thomas Who Let the Dogs Out article)
Oregon Law Practice Management blog has a post that describes the latest changes to Oregon’s Notary Public laws.
The Oregon Secretary of State’s Notary Services webpage has lots of other information about becoming a Notary and about the notarization process, e.g. 15 Steps to a Proper Notarization, and a link to their news updates.
1) From Salem’s Statesman Journal:
Oregon’s high court explores the limits of consent, State’s top lawyers argue case that could alter drunken-driving enforcement, by Peter Wong, Statesman Journal, December 17, 2009:
Excerpt: “…… The arguments by two of the state’s top lawyers were heard by the Oregon Supreme Court, which has before it a Sept. 30 decision by a divided Oregon Court of Appeals that would require police to obtain search warrants before they can draw blood samples from some suspected drunken drivers…
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This case involves Thomas Gregory Machuca of West Linn, whose blood was drawn after a June 1, 2005, crash in Portland but who failed to persuade a trial judge to suppress evidence of his blood alcohol level. (It was 0.20 percent, above the legal limit of 0.08 percent.) He said it violated his state constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Jerry Cunningham at his info-packed Live Journal Oregon Law website linked to this Oregon attorney website: Oregon Trial Attorney Resources, from attorneys Richard J. Vangelisti and Scott F. Kocher.
Their website has a lot of buried treasure, especially in the articles they generously post for our reading pleasure (with brief annotations no less – a legal researcher’s dream). I could have just this past couple of days referred people to a couple of these.
Visit their website to read these articles and more:
The OJD December 10, 2009, Media Release gives a summary of this case (other Media Releases).
Read the full case:
State of Oregon v. Roy Lee McCullough, Jr. (SC S056910) (decided December 10, 2009)
Information on Oregon Dislocated Workers and WARN Notices is buried at the Oregon Department of Colleges and Workforce Development website.
The State Board of Education and the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development governs community college education, but they are also home to the:
Dislocated Workers Unit: (800) 282-6514, where you will find info about WARN notice requirements: Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
And website info for workers:
Oregon Legal Research Blog