What do you tell lawyers who ask you about blogging? Top of my list are these:
· Read other lawyers blogs (the good, the bad, and the ugly – content and style matter)
· Read some of the best of the lawyers who write ABOUT blogging. I include these to start with, but there are others:
You can now go online to register your wish to become an organ donor. For more information, go to:
** Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (HB 3092), 2007 Oregon Laws 681
An editorial (commentary/opinion) in the 1/25/08 Oregonian, “A costly wreck in need of a cleanup,” by Steve Tackett-Nelson, President of the Oregon Psychiatric Association, about mental health care in Oregon:
Excerpt from full article:
“Over the past 30 years there has been a quiet movement to criminalize being mentally ill while indigent. No law was enacted, no edicts issued. But the unplanned effect of isolated events has been a gradual drift in public policy. And unplanned drift can have expensive consequences; remember the last voyage of the New Carissa.
The Willamette Week, on 1/22/08, ran a story that lists 8 candidates on the shortlist: Gordon Smith’s Choice for Federal Judge: The Candidates
Here is some information on federal court judges, history and appointment process:
The Jan. 20th, 2008, Oregonian article, by Aimee Green, Check out Adult Care before you Check In, has a useful “Fact Box.” If that “Fact Box” disappears over time, here are the resources listed:
Oregon’s Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman — 503-378-6533 or 800-522-2602 — will look up annual inspection reports for callers.
For information about a home’s complaint history or to make a complaint: Oregon Department of Human Services, 800-232-3020.
This is probably not a best-seller amongst my solos and small law firm practitioner law library patrons, but if that rare question arises, maybe this database could help me find them the answer.
Empirical Legal Studies Database
And what is an ELSD? From their own description, here’s an excerpt:
Also from a Stark County Law Library blog post, here’s the (new) legal writer blog with a link to a digital Black’s Law Dictionary.
Here is an easy to use, nicely laid out, compilation of state public records databases, from BRB Publications, which has lots of free stuff.
It’s not free for them to take the time and expertise to compile these lists in user-friendly format and post the information on their web pages so we thank the publisher for this public service.
It takes a lot to rock a law librarian’s boat, but a nifty search engine for legal research guides, and other research resources, comes close to doing so.
See BoleyBlogs, Jan 11th, 2008, post about Cornell’s new and improved InSITE current awareness service and the Legal Research Search Engine.
Liz, who keeps us abreast of law-related goings-on at one of our local public libraries, points out that LibraryThing now has a LAW Library Thing going-on with lots of law library catalogs making their appearances, including some of the biggies around the county.
LibraryThing is an excellent teaching tool (for grade school on up) and an invaluable cataloging option for many small libraries and especially private collections. It also keeps growing, and growing, as Things tend to do, though not necessarily insidiously.
Oregon Legal Research Blog