What do you do when you find something of value, e.g. jewelry, an electronic device, etc.? Can you keep it?
You can always call the Oregon State Bar Information and Referral Service, or your local police or sheriff’s department, but if it’s “after-hours“:
Some interesting (and maybe even useful) sections of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) to read are under these Index headings:
Last Reminder from the OLR Blogger:
NIST: “Standard Time begins each year at 2:00 a.m. (local time) on the first Sunday of November. Move your clocks back one hour at the resumption of Standard Time….
In 2009, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 8th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 1st….” (link)
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed this on the front page of the print Sunday Oregonian Metro section.
Coincidence is a fact of life, but it did give me reason to pause – and muse on names, class, lawyers (and those without lawyers), and clients. I don’t think anyone came out ahead in either of these two (and counting) legal skirmishes:
1) Steve Duin story: “Contrite? Davis Wright? Not Quite” (online version: Contrite? Davis Wright? Not quite, by Steve Duin, The Oregonian, October 24, 2009):
You might not realize it but it’s Census Time Again. Wowsers! 2010, here we come. None of us can avoid the march of time, so don’t be mean to your elders or your youngers (so to speak). You too will one day be OLD (ha ha ha).
Before I forget what I was talking about (!), here’s the news on the Scam Alert and the Census Scam:
Use Twitter to track Oregon Scam Alerts, which links to this 10/14/09 news release:
With apologies to the incomparable Edwin Newman (who first created Kid Pro Quo, the boxer who gave as good as he got, in his book, “Sunday Punch”) and to Consequential Strangers authors (Melinda Bau and Karen Fingerman), who would rightly raise eyebrows at the “most powerful” description of this list.
That said, it was impossible to resist the lure of the Kids Pro Quo list: The 50 Most Powerful People in D.C
(Thank you to the Law Librarian Blog for the link.)
This might make you a little less aggravated about public TV and radio pledge drives (or not):
Assuming they are correct, these dollar comparisons were stunning:
How to Save the News, by William F. Baker, September 23, 2009 (This article appeared in the October 12, 2009 edition of The Nation.)
I also found a link to this video and many other excellent legal research and lawyer tips from Jim Calloway’s excellent Law Practice Tips blog:
YouLaw: If Pixar Created a Law Firm Video
Animating the law is truly a heroic exercise.
The newspapers and cyberspace are awash in stories about “financial planners.” Some manage their clients’ money with the care of a mother bird for its fledglings. Other “financial planners” manage their clients’ money as if the clients had said, “take it, my money is your money, do with it as you please – I don’t want it back.”
The September 27, 2009, Oregonian ran a story titled, “Your financial planner: friend or faux” in the It’s Only Money column. It was not the first such column on this subject they have run in recent days, nor will it be the last. These stories show up on the front pages of newspapers, blogs, and websites far and yon.
Where to find information about Financial Planners and personal money management? Try these:
Every once in a while we get a question about which AMA Guide to Permanent Impairment Oregon uses. This website and chart say Oregon uses the 3rd Revised.
The Oregon lawyers and claims administrators I talk to say this: Oregon uses standards based on 3rd Edition of AMA Guide to Permanent Impairment, however Oregon uses it own rating standards and really doesn’t follow the AMA Guide.
So, even when there is a new edition (and there is a 6th edition available now), Oregon is the only state that does not use it? But do use the ORS and the OAR to research the permanent impairment laws the state does have.
There are many new federal government websites (and some that appear to be official government websites but are not, though they can be very useful too – just be aware of the difference). Here are some U.S. government websites I’ve visited recently:
1) U.S.A. dot gov: the red, white, and blue of government websites
2) Data dot gov: for the statistician within
Oregon Legal Research Blog