One possible future of law?
MyShingle had this excellent, and startling, post where you need to follow the links, and not just the money … but it really is all about the money:
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Where the Money is in Law
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Are You a Librarian (and Lunch Box) Superhero?
Gale Cengage is running a contest: Are You a Librarian Superhero?
Your librarian can turn into a cartoon, which to some might not sound like such a good deal, but to many librarians, We Love It!
You can read the Contest Rules and the Press Release for more information.
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Justice Bedsworth Tells the Wondrous Tale of Jon Alexander, Lawyer and Fighter
Be prepared to be mesmerized: there are lessons aplenty for us all in the tale of Jon Alexander (Californian and Oregonian) as told by Justice Bedsworth:
The February 2011 Orange County Lawyer brings us:
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United State Code (USC) Title 51 (Not to Be Confused with Area 51)
My fellow law librarians reminded me about the new United States Code (USC) Title 51 (which you will actually cite more like this: 51 USC xxx).
That USC Title 51 will (does!) sound strange to us old-timers. (Though not for the same reason it will confuse Area 51 devotees – and Title 51 is about Space Programs – ha ha ha.)
There isn’t yet a codification to find at the Cornell LI site or at the official FDSys United States Code site, but you can still look at the Session Law, P.L. 111-314 (enacted on December 18, 2010): Title 51, United States Code, National and Commercial Space Programs
U.S. Office of Law Revision Counsel brings us USC Title 51 (and main Positive Law website)
Related to this, is a reminder not to confuse U.S. session law (U.S. Statutes at Large) with its codified version (United States Code) or it’s commercial versions, U.S.C.S. (LexisNexis Matthew Bender) and U.S.C.A. (Thomson Reuters).
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Illinois Supreme Court Decision on Candidate Residency
If you were raising eyebrows over the “Candidate Residency” court battles in Illinois this past week, you’re not alone.
If you want to read the opinion, and share one with a law librarian, you can read the Law Librarian blog post: Rahm Opinion a Bit Uncivil.
Everyone else has an opinion, too. Use your favorite search engine to find them: illinois supreme court rahm emmanual
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“Girls under Trees” and Law School Websites
This was hilarious (thus, good for a Friday late afternoon), but also instructive – or it should be instructive to any of us who think we know anything about websites. (Most of us admit to being amateurs – but even the pros make mistakes.)
“Law school Web sites judged; some found wanting,” by Karen Sloan, The National Law Journal, January 26, 2011:
‘There are a lot of law students happily lounging under trees out there — if law school Web sites are to be believed.
A recent empirical study and ranking of the home pages for all 200 American Bar Association-accredited law schools found that 65 included photos of students in or around trees, a phenomenon the authors dubbed “Girls Under Trees.”….’ (Link to full article.)
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Law for Real (Oregon) People Blog
Oregon lawyer, John Gear, has started a Law for Real People blog.
You can find links to other Oregon lawyer blogs in this blog’s sidebar: under Blogs: Oregon Legal Topics and also under Blogs: OR Lawyers.
I include links to Oregon lawyer blogs and websites that have useful “content,” i.e. they provide legal information, on a variety legal topics, that might be of value to other lawyers, pro se litigants, and any other Oregonian who has legal questions.
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Oregon State Bar Job: Referral and Information Services Assistant
Referral and Information Services Assistant (part-time):
Responds to requests for legal information and assistance from attorneys and members of the public.
Required:
1) Graduation from high school or an equivalent GED certificate.
2) At least one year of college, business, or secretarial school desirable
3) more
Responsibilities include the following.
1) Provides professional customer service while conducting confidential and sensitive telephone interviews with members of the public needing the assistance of an attorney or a community resource in Oregon.
2) Uses custom entry-and-retrieval database program to perform attorney referrals according to geographic location and area of law needed.
3) more
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Use Groupon to Hire a Lawyer?
A 3 Geeks and a Blog 1/24/11 post asks:
Is it Time for Law Firms to Get Their Groupon?
Who knows? One commenter says it’s been done, but the lawyer licensing boards may need to weigh in.
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Oregon Law and Laws Online: Ha Ha Ha
Ha ha ha. I spent time this morning doing the following (fellow public and private law librarians around the state do the same, just about every day):
1) Showing a lawyer and others how to compile a legislative history – this can take an hour or more, depending on how far back and how complex the question is. Ask your Legislator to show you how to do this. Ha ha ha. (They are probably glad we don’t send all our patrons and their questions to their offices!) You cannot do this online for any legislative history before 1995 or if you want any of the Exhibits from 1995 forward. Ha ha ha.
2) Explaining to lawyers that the ORS is not online, EXCEPT for the current year. Superseded ORSs DO exist digitally back to (maybe?) 1997 or thereabouts. But the Oregon Legislature DOES NOT keep previous ORS editions online, even though they could – easily. Ha ha ha. Maybe they don’t know that lawyers and pro se litigants really need to see those old ORSs! Ha ha ha. (You can find some of them here, thanks to our favorite law student, Robb Shecter, and his Oregonlaws dot org website.)
So, the next time someone says, “It’s all online,” do this: ha ha ha (or type the word laughing into Google Images and have a giggle :-).
Here’s my latest list of what legal information is NOT online and/or NOT FREE online (from this Legal Information website).