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The tips at this post, 20 Tips to Manage your Online Social Life, which I linked to from iLibrarian, piqued my curiosity. They may pique yours too – or not.

For me, it’s not so much my “social life” that needs managing. I can do that perfectly well or at least to my own satisfaction. It’s the work-related networks that start to feel overwhelming.

Mind Mapping isn’t new, but it has taken me a while to absorb its usefulness and adapt it. Password control is a necessity, but the right method eludes me still. These tips may not be exactly right for you, but they will keep your Organization-Maven Juices flowing in the right direction. Twenty tips are a bit much; I like new ideas in small bites, e.g. 3-4 tips at a time, max. But I can manage 🙂

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1) For an excellent lineup of free legal research databases, see Robert Ambrogi’s Legal.Online column: 10 Places to Get Free Cases: A Very Good Price, from the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, July 2009 issue. In 2 pages he gives links and pertinent information about each database’s coverage and caveats.

2) Another view of “free”: Can Free Information Make Us A Vendor-Free Library?, posted July 13, 2009, Paul Lomio, has some interesting ideas, excellent links, and thoughtful Comments.

3) See also my Oregon Legal Research blog sidebar, which links to guides to Free and Low-Cost Legal Research Resources.

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Tis the season, apparently, to climb onto an open-air motorized vehicle:

There are state laws:
1) ODOT, DMV, Pocket Bike Guide (PDF)
2) ODOT, DMV Vehicle Index
3) ODOT, DMV Vehicle Violations
4) ODOT, DMV Vehicle Factsheet for Mini-motorbikes and Scooters
5) Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS)

And there are local laws: Contact your city or county law enforcement agency (e.g. police or sheriff) to ask if they have any brochures, training, and websites that have information for riders of these vehicles.

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If you have surgery in your future, don’t think about lawyers and medical malpractice if something goes wrong … think preventive, preemptive action, that is, BEFORE something goes wrong.

Oregon’s Patient Safety Commission has a Surgical Safety Checklist webpage.

You can also contact the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners, which regulates the practice of medicine in Oregon, to ask about your doctor or surgeon.

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U.S. Supreme Court questions someone will ask about and that we will want to find quickly.

These can all be found at the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Term webpage:

1) The “firefighters” case, aka the “new haven firefighters case”: Ricci V. DeStefano, 07-1428 (decided 6/29/09)

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In a kinder, gentler world, the words “you’re under arrest” without any accompanying cuffs or restraints may mean you’re free to head off with impunity at a measured pace to the nearest coffee shop, or tree top, but in Oregon the words “you’re under arrest” means YOU’RE UNDER ARREST AND IN CUSTODY so stop calculating that escape route and forget about that Freedom Road Quickstep maneuver.

From the OJD Court of Appeal July 8, 2009, Media Release (or read the full case):

“State of Oregon, Respondent, v. James B. Thomas, Appellant (A135855) decided July 8, 2009:

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Non-attorneys don’t often realize the amount of preparation that is required to prepare for a case, whether it’s researching, drafting documents, communicating with opposing counsel, appearing in Small Claims or Traffic Court, or before a judge in conference or at trial, and every interaction with the judicial system in between.

Lawyers learn and develop their own trial notebooks, paper and online, and pro se litigants need to do the same, without all the seminars and other training lawyers get on trial notebook preparation.

But here’s a good place to begin if you want to know what a trial notebook is: from the King County, Washington, Reference Librarian on their KCLL Klues Blog: Trial Notebook for Family Law.

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We all know how useful mock exams are – who wants to have take a test over and over again when it is possible to take a mock (aka practice) exam and learn your weak points, knowledge gaps, and how to cope with exam-jitters?!

If you think mocking is only for losers, think again. It’s really for winners. To Mock is Human, to Mock Exam Divine!

Visit the Pacific Northwest Paralegal Associations webpage, click on Seminars, and scroll down to the entry and application for:

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Journalists have ethical codes and so do librarians and lawyers. (Librarians also have a intellectual freedom codes, which might answer some of your question about why we can be so pigheaded).

Do Bloggers Share an Ethical Code?, posted at attorney Donald Vanarelli’s blog, is worth reading:

Excerpt: “According to a recent study published in the June 2009 edition of the New Media & Society journal entitled doing-the-right-thing-online-a-survey-of-bloggers-beliefs-and-practices, bloggers share a group of ethical principals. This first large-scale survey of blogging ethics identified four underlying ethical principles important to bloggers: truth telling, accountability, minimizing harm and attribution...” (link to full post)

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See the explanatory memo at the Oregon State Bar (OSB):

“Effective July 1, 2009, some state court filing fees will change due to 2007 legislative changes that become effective July 1, 2009, and the extension of the temporary filing fee surcharges through September 30, 2009, as provided in a 2009 legislative bill (HB 2287B). The Oregon Judicial Department has more information here.

For circuit courts, there is no single circuit court fee schedule, because circuit court fees vary by county depending on local fee assessments. If a court has not posted its fee schedule on its webpage, contact the court directly for information….” (Link to full OSB announcement)

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