From the Law Librarian Blog:
ABA Launches Law Reviews, Law Journals and Document Repositories Search Engine:
“The ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center has launched a free search engine for researching the free full-text of over 300 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories …” (link to full LLB post)
Jerry Cunningham at his info-packed Live Journal Oregon Law website linked to this Oregon attorney website: Oregon Trial Attorney Resources, from attorneys Richard J. Vangelisti and Scott F. Kocher.
Their website has a lot of buried treasure, especially in the articles they generously post for our reading pleasure (with brief annotations no less – a legal researcher’s dream). I could have just this past couple of days referred people to a couple of these.
Visit their website to read these articles and more:
The OJD December 10, 2009, Media Release gives a summary of this case (other Media Releases).
Read the full case:
State of Oregon v. Roy Lee McCullough, Jr. (SC S056910) (decided December 10, 2009)
Once upon a time there weren’t that many Oregon lawyer blogs, but they are hitting their stride now. Here’s another one I came across recently: Oregon Law Practice Management
Information on Oregon Dislocated Workers and WARN Notices is buried at the Oregon Department of Colleges and Workforce Development website.
The State Board of Education and the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development governs community college education, but they are also home to the:
Dislocated Workers Unit: (800) 282-6514, where you will find info about WARN notice requirements: Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
And website info for workers:
An addition to previous OLR blog posts on babysitting:
1) “If a babysitter provides child care in a private home on a regular basis while the parent(s) work, is the payment of minimum wage and overtime required?”
2) “Is it necessary to pay minimum wage and overtime if a babysitter is hired on a “casual basis,” for example, when parents go out for the evening?”
See this BOLI FAQ for answers to these questions.
‘Tis the season to be giving, so give wisely:
1) Attorney General’s Tips for Charitable Giving
2) Oregon Attorney General Announces Oregon’s 20 Worst Charities
The Portland-metro area has quite a few paralegal programs and I recently heard about this Live Journal website (Cunninghamppc), set up by an instructor (Jerry Cunningham) at Pioneer Pacific College.
The website is filled with all the Q & A that a paralegal (and the rest of us, too) could think about asking, from jobs, to drafting, to legal terminology, and much more. You’ll find an awful lot of useful information here – and it’s fun, too. What more could you ask?!
Previous OLR blog post on paralegal jobs.
No, this is a not a blog post about how people in other English-speaking countries find our use of the English language – they think we are hilarious. And they are right!
(Of course, this isn’t to say that we don’t return the compliment: Our Australian and British and Scottish and Irish earth-mates leave us in stitches.)
Now, about Tiny Thomas: This is a post about a U.S. Congress website, specifically, the official website of said body: Thomas dot gov or Thomas dot loc dot gov (whichever takes your fancy).
P.G. Wodehouse, through his inimitable Jeeves, understood the lighter side of “the psychology of” the lovelorn (and terrifying aunts).
The authors of the 1974 “Subliminal Seduction” understood the psychology of the shopper-consumer.
And no one understands the psychology of marks more than scammers and flim-flammers themselves:
