Law school in 30 seconds? Not quite, but close!
Visit the Oregon State Bar’s public website for some fun lessons in the law. They answer questions like these and have lots of other useful information:
1) If I co-sign for my son to buy a car, could I wind up paying for it?
The Southern California Association of Law Libraries’ (SCALL) Public Access to Legal Information Committee (PALI) has published the fifth edition of:
Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians (2009).
Thank the California law librarians for this – it represents a lot of extra work for some very busy people!
I posted many years ago on this subject, more a note for myself than for readers, but I have had reason lately to update that post for all of us, with these new resources:
1) The 2009 Family Law OSB CLE also has a couple of chapters on the subject.
2) Bankruptcy and Domestic Relations Manual, by Hon. William Houston Brown, 2008-09 edition, Thomson-West Bankruptcy Series
Bob Ambrogi recently posted this to his website: Casemaker Fights Back Over Loss in Oregon (posted Thursday, October 01, 2009):
“… I described the two as “in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers.” That competition reached a critical juncture last month when the Oregon State Bar Association announced it was switching from Casemaker to Fastcase. That switch took effect today.
Today, Casemaker shot back, doing something it has never done before….” (read full post)
The Law Librarian and Non-Attorney Legal Researcher Perspective:
Copyright and art law through the eyes of a novelist (and a legal scholar):
Gary Pulsinelli, Harry Potter and the (Re)Order of the Artists: Are We Muggles or Goblins?
Excerpt:
1) Do you know what your Condo Management Association is up to?
2) Maybe you are Condo Management and want to know what you should be doing.
3) Maybe you’re thinking about buying a condo and want to hear about HOA rights and responsibilities.
Smart people love Forums and Meetings and Seminars! Here is a condo training opportunity just for you:
An idea whose time has come, maybe, soon:
Law.Gov: A Proposed Registry and Repository of All Primary Legal Materials of the United States
PACER, CRS, eCourt, eFiling, caselaw, statutes, superseded laws, dockets, state, federal, international, etc., etc., etc.? One can dream.
“Ronald A. Lucas and R.A. Lucas Developments, LLC agree to establish procedures to allow assistance animals for physically and mentally disabled tenants
Portland, Ore. – A settlement has been reached between the parties in a federal Fair Housing Act case against a St. Helen’s landlord regarding assistance animals for persons with physical and mental disabilities. The parties have requested that Federal District Judge Michael W. Mosman approve the terms of the settlement. The parties have asked the court to approve a Consent Decree which references an additional confidential agreement between the tenant and the Lucases resolving all monetary and other relief agreed upon and disposing of all claims….” (read full press release)
From the U.S. Justice Department blog:
Memorandum for Selected United State Attorneys on Investigations and Prosecutions in States Authorizing the Medical Use of Marijuana, October 19th, 2009, posted by Tracy Russo:
“Today Attorney General Eric Holder announced formal guidelines for federal prosecutors in states that have enacted laws authorizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Those guidelines are contained in a memo from Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden which was sent to United States Attorneys this morning….” (read full post)
The Portland Tribune ran an excellent news story on the current status of Oregon payday lending and on Internet payday lending (and lenders):
Internet payday lenders flout new law: Oregon law capping rates ignored by many online lenders, by Steve Law, The Portland Tribune, Oct 15, 2009
Oregon Legal Research Blog