Malcolm Gladwell and the Freakonomics Guys aren’t the only ones who want to burst a few of your bubbles and shake up your world of assumptions:.
I’ve come into close contact (!) with these 3 books & writers in the past few weeks and thought I’d note their titles here for my book-loving readers:
1) “Quiet” was terrific (and was written by a lawyer), but none of the reviews I’ve read so far have mentioned how funny the author is when she lets her droll sense of humor loose:
Read HALT’s 2011 Small Claims Report Card.
Read about HALT (“HALT (Help Abolish Legal Tyranny) – an Organization of Americans for Legal Reform, Inc. was founded in 1978 ….“)
If you’ve been following the news regarding the proposed administrative rule eliminating Native American mascots in Oregon public schools, and wanted to know more administrative rules and administrative law in general, you’re in luck. The Washington County Law Library has a brand new administrative law legal research guide available on its website. You can find more Oregon Legal Research blog posts on administrative law, including an invaluable post on researching the history of an OAR, using the “administrative law” tag. As always, many other legal research guides are available on the law library’s website, and you can always peruse the document index for quick document retrieval.
Interested in following the U.S. Supreme Courts arguments in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cases?
They plan to allow same-day audio of the oral arguments, so keep an eye on the Supreme Court’s website March 26-28, 2012.
Or, maybe you’d rather do a crossword puzzle? Gallagher blogs about: NPR’s Legal Crossword Puzzle
If you want to read the legislation behind all the news coverage about Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industry (BOLI) Labor Commissioner election dates:
Assuming the link has not changed – read a PDF version or an HTML version of 2009 HB 2095 (session law: Chapter 511, (2009 Laws): Effective date June 24, 2009)
If the link has changed, go to the Oregon State Legislature Measure Search and type in the session date (2009) and the bill type and number (house bill 2095).
Oregon Personal Injury Lawyer Blog has this informative post: “Another Remedy for Clients Ripped Off by Oregon Lawyers,” March 20, 2012
“People call me when they have trouble with their lawyers. Often they want me to sue for legal malpractice. However, Oregon provides another route to seek compensation when a client loses money because an Oregon attorney is dishonest or crooked. That’s the Client Security Fund….” (Read the full blog post.)
Disclaimer: The information provided on this blog is for research purposes only. We do not provide legal advice, nor do we endorse any person, product, or company.
Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites blog post on the new book, A Thorough Guide to Freelance Lawyering, by Alaska attorney Kimberly L. Alderman, will intrigue a lot of lawyers – and law librarians (!).
Freelancing is not for everyone, but if you have an adventurous spirit and can figure out how to pay the bills until your practice is up and running, this book might be a good place to begin to plan for the future.
In this political campaign season (365 days a year), I hope you have learned not to believe much of what you hear, read, or see online, or on the grapevine, or through a beery haze without first doing some serious fact-checking.
This admonition to fact-check also applies to any rumors about your county law library:
The law library is closing? (Maybe, maybe not.)
Carl Malamud, of Public Resource dot org, wrote an interesting BoingBoing blog post: “Liberating America’s secret, for-pay laws”
Previous OLR blog post on building codes and Veeck (Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Circuit, 2002)
From the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) website:
“Reminder — Oregon State Courts Closed Friday, March 23 for Mandatory Furlough
Oregon state courts and their offices will be closed Friday, March 23, 2012, because of budget cuts. All statewide court closure dates for 2011-13 legal holidays and mandated furlough days are posted here. Some courts also have limited public access hours to address staff cutbacks.”
