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Reading minutes from meetings can be a snooze, but they can also be very funny – and they can make a great lawyer out of you (or at least contribute to your greatness).

Funny meeting minutes examples (though I will admit that maybe you needed to be there):

1) From Oregon State Bar board meeting minutes several years ago:

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When and how should a judge intervene when parties represent themselves in court?
Richard Zorza has published an article on the subject in the ABA Judges Journal, which you can link to from Zorza’s Access to Justice blog post:
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We may have 3 equal branches of government, but the Legislative Branch decides how much money each branch gets – and voters get to decide who the legislators are:
“Critics Say Budget Cuts for Courts Risk Rights,” by Jon Schwartz, NYT, November 26, 2011:
‘…“The justice system’s funding has been decreasing in constant dollars for at least two decades,” said David Boies, co-chairman of a commission formed by the American Bar Association to study court budget issues. “We are now at the point where funding failures are not merely causing inconvenience, annoyances and burdens; the current funding failures are resulting in the failure to deliver basic justice.”….‘  [Link to full article.]
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Here is some additional information on our previous “right to record” blog posts.
From the Digital Media and Data Privacy Law Blog, May 2, 2011 by Elizabeth Spainhour:
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Find free U.S. court opinions at the FDsys website.  This is a pilot project and not yet fully populated, but take a look:
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Free Federal Rules Ebooks, from the Legal Information Institute (compatible with iPad, Kindle, and more.)
If you know LII, you know free doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice quality. The books are based on LII’s federal rules collections, the premiere, free versions of the federal rules online. Our federal rules ebooks include:
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A fellow law librarian compiled this list of resources for finding military personnel and enlistees and I’ve adapted it for this blog post:
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The Washington County Law Library has a new legal research guide on appeals, available on our website in a number of places: the What’s New page; the Subjects Guide page; and our lovely Document Index.  If you are ever at a loss to find a document on our website, the Document Index page includes every document uploaded to the website.  You can also use the labels on the right-hand sidebar of this blog to find posts about appeals. 

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Forbes dot com brings us this story:
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