The Oregon Department of Justice Consumer Protection’s Charitable Giving website has lots of information and sage advice. So pay them a visit before writing that check.
They have old and new Charitable Giving websites, so make sure you browse them all – and don’t forget their Charities Registry.
Office of the Legislative Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, has posted to their website:
Statute Compilations: A list of frequently requested compilations in PDF format
Thank you to Legal Research Plus for the tip.
A fellow law librarian sent us a link to the article “Apps, Apps, and More Apps: An Annotated List of Free and Low Cost iPad Apps for Attorneys and Paralegals,” which appears in the September 2012 issue of Res Gestae.
CALI and the Legal Information Institute join forces to provide free ebooks of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence.
“The 2013 Editions (effective December 1, 2012) as well as the 2012 and 2011 editions can be found on the eLangdell Bookstore.
The lawyers I talk to love Dropbox, so maybe these are not new to them – but just in case:
“10 Things You Didn’t Know Dropbox Could Do,“ from an October 29th, 2012, iLibrarian post, which links to the Mashable post.
Libraries are perfect places to find ghosts and ghouls and you don’t have to travel abroad to find one:
Popular Science has been tracking the stories behind this technology:
FYI: Is it Legal to 3-D Print a Handgun
Interesting legal questions: federal firearms regulations, intellectual property law, company liability, contract law, criminal law, and more.
iLibrarian alerts us to this sensible, and very funny, genealogy research advice, which also applies to Life in General and on the Internet Tubes:
Avoiding Five Common Genealogy Research Errors, from iLibrarian, 10/20/12.
I’m a great fan of the Inter-alia blog. One Blawg of the Day post is all you get driven into your mailbox, assuming you subscribe, and it is usually a winner. If it’s not, the delete button removes all evidence in a flash.
It’s always good to see what lawyers in other states and countries are doing. For example, there was a terrific little article from NC Law Blog, the Inter Alia’s October 22nd Blawg of the Day pick, on a mediator’s dilemma with self-represented litigants.
“Cruel to be Kind,” September 19, 2012, by Christie Foppiano, at the NC Law Blog.
Oregon Legal Research Blog