Oregon Legal Research BlogI heard this very interesting story on OBP radio last week. You can read and hear it too:
And, follow the links to source articles, such as this one, among others:
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LawSites: Five Tips for Starting Your Own Blog
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites blog brings us “Five Tips for Starting Your own Blog” and other law practice tips.
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips and Carolyn Elefant’s myShingle are favorites, too.
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62 Non-Librarian Jobs for LIS Grads
iLibrarian alerts us to this gem of a post from a Syracuse School of Information Studies:
61 Non-librarian Jobs for LIS grads
For a bonus point, #62, read about how librarian skills translate into city management skills at Will Manley’s blog post, Shooting Bullets:
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Legal Phrase Origins (with jokes): Don’t make a federal case out of it!
Did you every wonder where the phrase, “make a federal case out of it” came from? How about “hue and cry?” Or, “piercing the corporate veil?”
You can find these phrases and many more in the new book “Lawtalk: the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions,” by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro.
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Job: Legislative Assistant (Oregon Legislature, 2012 Session)
Policy and government wonks:
Visit the Oregon Legislature’s Jobs’ website for information about this and other jobs.
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Oregon Lawyer Kickstarts an iPad “Clutch”
Robert Ambrogi’s 12/9/11 LawSites blog post brings us this excellent news about an Oregon attorney:
“Jamie Daigle is a Portland, Ore., trial lawyer who loves to use his iPad in court. But he also knows the iPad can be clumsy to hold or stand up. No sooner did he first get his iPad than he started trying to build a better case for it. Using common household items, he had his first prototype within days. Believing that he has created “the most comfortable, ergonomic and functional iPad case available,” Daigle and his new company, DC Mobile Design LLC, have turned to Kickstarter in the hopes of raising the money they need to take their prototype to market….” [Link to full post.]
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Trimet Budget: Register your Opinion Online
If you ride Trimet or pay Trimet taxes, link to Trimet budget information and the survey at:
Trimet: Why is there a budget shortfall? and fill in the “Tell us what you think” questions.
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Consumer Advocacy Award Finalist: “Economic Fairness Oregon”
An Oregon nonprofit, Economic Fairness Oregon, was one of five finalists for Consumer’s Union first Excellence in Advocacy Award, as reported in the January 2012 Consumer Reports and on the Excellent in Advocacy Award website.
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How to Find Free Digital Books (other than Amazon, Kindle, etc.)
This isn’t a complete list but these are good places to start your search for full-text digital books – but don’t forget your local libraries and librarians.
First, sometimes you need good bibliographic info (e.g. correct spelling of author name, exact title, etc.) before you begin your search for the full-text. Worldcat dot org is a good catalog to find that info. Your own Oregon public library may have a full-service subscription version you can use.
Second: General web search engines will index the contents of many of these repositories, but not all content.
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Lawyer Blogs and the ABA Journal Blawg 100
You don’t have to vote for your favorite blogs unless you want to, but if you were thinking about blogging and want to look at how other lawyers blog, the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 is a great list of examples.