An awful lot of people have a hard time saying “no, thank you.”
Unless you have a burning desire to be scammed, I recommend you practice, practice, practice.
If you want another really good reason for saying, “no, thank you,” here’s a story for you, from the 11/6/12, Law for Real People Blog:Every Season is “Attempt to Scam the Elderly Season”
But (Arthur Clarke’s 2001, a Space Odysey) HAL may still be your friend. Read on:
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites, Dec. 17, 2012, blog post:
The WordRake Editing Program Takes on Scalia, Kagen and El Pollo Loco
“A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies,” by Anne McCracken and Mary Semel, 1998.
Two women who lost their children turned to literature when self-help, memoir, and other sources of solace didn’t fill void.
This is a heartbreaking, but beautiful collection of writings, annotated by the editors, including this one by William Wordsworth, whose daughter Catherine died at age 4:
GetHuman has been around for a long time, but it never hurts to remind people that some businesses, some companies really do “get” customer service and there are ways to contact inside representatives, without blowing your top.
Not every problem can be fixed online and sometimes you really do need to talk to an organic human being:
Visit GetHuman, read About GetHuman, and visit the GetHuman Blog for business and customer Customer Service tips.
You can now read:
HB 4091: Workgroup Report: Recommendations Regarding Criminal Records Verification in Oregon
Excerpt from Executive Summary:
An Access to Justice CLE is presented by the Lawyers’ Association of Washington County (LAWC), a Chapter of Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLs). (Earn one Access to Justice credit.)
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 11:45 am to 1:00 pm
With Leslea Smith, Oregon Law Center and Sandra Hansberger, Campaign for Equal Justice.
I like this new blog: Legal Research is Easy, in part because it’s funny and in part because Legal Research is NOT Easy, which makes the blog name also very funny, or perhaps ironic. (Potential irony is too deep for me, so I’ll just enjoy the ride.)
The Horse to Water blog post describes a Q&A familiar to any public law librarian and very likely any legal aid or court support staff front-line staff member. You see, we do try to make legal research as easy as possible, but ….
Excerpt: After the law librarian shows the patron some excellent, truly excellent, research resources that would go a long way to answering the question posed:
The only thing better than a Search Engine Features Comparison Chart is one that is updated regularly. The Internet for Lawyers bloggers (and all round legal information gurus) update their Chart regularly. That is priceless and we thank them!
What is better than finding something both fun and useful – at least for lawyers and law librarians?
From Yale Law School, this gem:
Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States
Oregon Legal Research Blog