1) Idaho: “Idaho County to Hire Lawyer to Assist Pro Se Litigants,” Aug 13, 2012, by Molly McDonough. ABA Journal News.
Link to Idaho Press Tribune story: “Idaho county to hire lawyer to help ‘pro se’ cases“
2) Massachusetts: Yale Law Journal article (June 2012): “Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation (Offer and Actual Use) Make?“ by D. James Greiner and Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak
“New Reference Resource: NYU Launches History of Undercover Reporting Database,” filed by Gary Price, InfoDocket, on August 6, 2012:
“New York University has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. The archive, “Undercover Reporting,” includes an array of stories, ranging from the slave trade in 1850s to efforts to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in the U.S. in the late 1930s to treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the 21st century….” [Link to InfoDocket blog post.]
Link to Undercover reporting dot org.
For more educational fun than you can imagine: Acronym Finder (for acronyms, abbreviations, or initialisms)
For extra credit, visit the Ref Desk.
The Law Library of Congress has digitized its collection of pre-1923 piracy trials. The full texts of these titles are available at the LLoC website, including:
1) A select and impartial account of the lives, behaviour, and dying words, of the most remarkable convicts, from the year 1700, down to the present time ….
2) Trial of Capt. Henry Whitby, for the murder of John Pierce, with his dying declaration. Also, the trial of Capt. George Crimp, for piracy and manstealing…
Today we’re featuring the new website for the Douglas County (Oregon) Law Library.
Oregon county law libraries offer lots of services, individually and as an association (we share information and resources), and one of the most popular services offered is conference room space for attorneys who use them to meet with clients and with each other, assemble documents, spread out a table-full of research materials, make private phone calls, etc.
Each county law library has its own conference room policy (usually set from on high, i.e. our respective county administrative offices) so call the County’s Law Library directly to inquire about access and reservations.
I’ve been rereading “To Kill a Mockingbird” (and it’s even better than I remembered) and then saw this timely reminder about the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection.
It has been said that most lawyers are frustrated writers, but, as has also been said, so are most writers.
Frustrated writers will know about Anne Lamont’s “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,” which is a title more metaphorically-melodious than the prosaic “Blog-post by Blog-post: instructions on writing …” (which isn’t really metaphorical at all), but … whatever works for you. Blog-post by Blog-post(ing) may do the trick and here are some tips:
Leave it to a retired librarian / city manager to find a good deal:
Excerpt: ‘…Yesterday I picked up a virtually new set of Cobra Irons at a thrift store. There are 9 clubs in a set of irons. Had I ordered this set new last year on the internet it would have cost me 900 dollars. Here at the Thrifty Thrift, I was expecting a charge of 50 bucks. I was wrong.
For more information on animal law research, see our new Animal Law legal research guide. As always, if you need to find a document quickly on the law library’s website, please see the Document Index. All of our legal research guides are available in the Subject Guides section of the law library’s website.
Have you ever wondered about the questions public law librarians are asked? Have you ever thought that answers to lawyer and non-lawyer legal questions are “all online?”
Think again!
The Oregon Special Law Library Association (ORSLA) asked the question. Read the answers (and a few samples below). Public law librarians around the country will recognize these:
Oregon Legal Research Blog