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.
1) There are many kinds of willful blindness, personal, financial, criminal, etc. A recent story about the Sandusky trial mentioned the following book. I started reading it over the weekend and it’s hard to put down:
“Willful Blindness,” by Margaret Heffernan
2) If you need another good summer read, try this one:
“People before profit: the inspiring story of the founder of Bob’s Red Mill,” by Ken Koopman
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: “Shared a Dropbox folder? Don’t forget!” posted June 13, 2012.
Excerpt: “Surprisingly, I have seen this happen several times. Someone and I share a Dropbox folder as we work on a joint project. Six months or a year later, that someone starts loading documents into the shared folder that clearly are not intended for me. Has the person forgotten that the folder is shared? Has the person forgotten with whom the folder is shared?
Inadvertent sharing is a real danger for lawyers as more and more of us use services such as Dropbox ….” [Link to full blog post.]
“Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index. What would you discover?” [Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog.]
Only time will tell if MillionShort has “legs” but it has high Cool Factor potential.
This position opens on June 2 and closes on June 15, 2012:
Washington County Law Library (apply through the Washington County Human Resources website)
The Washington County Law Library, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, is seeking a part-time (25 hours/week) Law Library Assistant. Under the supervision of the county’s Law Librarian, the Law Library Assistant will have administrative support and financial record keeping duties, document digitization tasks, and provide circulation and basic library reference assistance to library patrons.
DSM-5 Draft Criteria Open for Final Public Comment: May 2nd through June 15th, 2012
Oh, the wonders of the internet – and the DSM and its 5th edition, for which psychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers await with baited breath: DSM-V is expected in May 2013.
Free, public workshop at the Multnomah Central Library:
Sunday, June 10, 2012
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Multnomah County Central Library
801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR
U.S. Bank Room.
Free and open to the public.
If you follow national and international news it’s important to make sure you remember that other people in other places may define THINGS differently from the way we define them in America.
For example: Did you know that a U.S. Billion is different from a British Billion? (See also the Oxford Dictionaries website entry.)
(Think about those $$$ amounts thrown out in news stories about international financial debacles. Whose “Billion” is being referenced?)
Oregon Legal Research Blog