Yahoo highlights a terrific Monster dot com consumer alert article:
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Top Four Work-from-Home Scams (Yahoo/Monster article)
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Want to search our catalog? There’s an app for that
Have you ever been caught away from your computer with the desperate need to see if the law library has the latest collecting judgments CLE? If so, you’re in luck as you can now download the LibraryWorld Search app for Android and iOS (available through their respective app stores). Washington County Law Library’s catalog is available to search under the library name WCLL2. LibraryWorld also has a mobile website: http://www.libraryworld.com/mobile. You do not need a password to search our catalog using the app or the mobile website.
More information about the law library’s catalog can be found on our website: http://www.co.washington.or.us/LawLibrary/catalog.cfm.
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Access to Justice Webinars for Libraries (Sept-Nov 2012)
Not everyone in Oregon (or elsewhere in the country) is lucky enough to have easy access to a local public law library with trained law library staff members (e.g. Washington County Law Library) (Not everyone has easy access to a public library either, for that matter.)
Public library reference librarians and paraprofessional staff members are invited to tune in to one or more of these Access to Justice webinars, from the Pro Bono Network:
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3rd Annual Oregon Archives Crawl, October 6, 2012
Mark your calendars, make new friends, learn new research skills at the:
Third Annual Oregon Archives Crawl
Saturday, October 6, 2012
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
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Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Briefs: September 2012 Update
We are working with our 9th Circuit Court of Appeals law librarians to update our existing guide to briefs from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In the meantime:
1) In a nutshell, you will find 9th Circuit Court of Appeals briefs filed since 2008 on PACER.
2) Read the previous blog post, “How Do I Find Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Briefs?”
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Oregon Business Xpress: A One Stop Portal for Small and Not-so-small Businesses
Visit Oregon’s One Stop Business Portal, whether you are thinking about starting a business in Oregon, need to research permits and licenses, want to pay your taxes, need financing for your business, or need to find answers to dozens of other questions business owners have (except, perhaps, what happened to the missing “e” in “xpress”).
Consumers have business websites, too:
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Resources for New Oregon Bankruptcy Lawyers
The Oregon Law Practice Management blog has a Sept. 4, 2012, post about:
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Washington County (Oregon) OWLs Event, September 19, 2012
What: The Washington County Chapter of OWLS (Oregon Women Lawyers) is reinvigorated and bringing programs to the county starting September 2012. Join us for a kick-off event featuring the county’s favorite legal alumni, the Honorable Marco Hernandez, U.S. District Court of Oregon.
When: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
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Neil Armstrong: A Moment of Silence, Please
Neil Armstrong, his predecessors, and his successors hold a permanent spot in the hearts of many of us who dreamed the “I could be an astronaut!” dream and remember the tragedies and triumphs of our outer space pioneers, whether they wielded slide rules at ground control or landing gear on spaceships or died in the pursuit of knowledge, adventure, and a chance to touch the stars.
Governor Kitzhaber orders flags at half-staff in honor of Neil Armstrong.
“DEATH OF NEIL ARMSTRONG, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION
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Posner vs. Scalia: a Case of the War on Words
An interesting book review by Richard A. Posner (Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) of:
“Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
(Thomson/West, 567 pp., $49.95)
Excerpt: “The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia, by Richard Posner, by Richard A. Posner, August 24, 2012, The New Republic: