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Today’s Oregonian has an editorial by Oregon Senator Bonamici and Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish about Senate Bill: 2009 SB 952 (A-Engrossed) in PDF or HTML:

Excerpt from the editorial: Renters, too, can face the hit of foreclosure:

“Losing a home to foreclosure can be devastating. Typically, homeowners come to mind when we think of foreclosure. But the fact is, many foreclosed properties are places that renters call home, too….
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The Oregon Legislature is working on Senate Bill 952 to protect tenants whose homes are in danger of foreclosure. This bill would require that in addition to the property owner, tenants be provided with foreclosure notice. Tenants without a lease would receive 30 days notice. Tenants with a lease would receive up to 60 days notice. SB 952 also protects tenants’ security deposits, requiring that landlords in foreclosure apply the deposit toward rent. The bill gives tenants time to look for a new home and save money for expenses….” (read full editorial)

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I like this: Publisher Confidential. Writers might find it useful too.

It’s from the creators of Unshelved, who have been talking, and listening, to public librarians for a long time. You can download Publisher Confidential (PDF), free!

Law librarians could probably add a few more pages, but we’re not as restrained as the public librarians featured in Publisher Confidential. Maybe we’ve just been pushed a bit too much and too hard in the past couple of decades and are may be approaching “Fleeting Expletives” territory.

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Re: Oregon 2009 HB 3264

Oregon looks at tougher probation for lesser crimes, by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Sunday May 03, 2009:

Excerpts: ‘Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to use $13.5 million of Oregon’s federal stimulus dollars to create an enhanced probation program for repeat property and drug offenders who might otherwise face prison under Measure 57.

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For those of you tracking citizen’s arrest cases:

Oregonian article: Parking-law bulldog drops a case: Citizen citations – Attorney Eric Bryant ticketed officers in prohibited zones, May 02, 2009, Aimee Green:

Excerpt: “An attorney who sparked a widespread debate about whether police officers who aren’t responding to emergencies need to follow parking laws has dropped his latest fight.

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Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his, not to be missed, column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:

“It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding): ‘After 28 years of filling this space, Beds suddenly notices he’s aging,’ by Justice William W. Bedsworth:

I have gone gently into the good night of geezerhood. I’m not sure exactly when it happened. At some point, apparently while my attention was diverted, I went from being “The Kid”(1) to being “Acting PJ.” That’s like going to bed Warren Zevon and waking up The Werewolf of London.

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I really like this post at MyShingle about how you sometimes can’t know what you are capable of, or what you will like or not like, until you find yourself having to do it. It seems to go without saying, but it doesn’t! We know this is true of food (just taste it, please), sports (just play a little), avocations (mustard of the month, anyone?), but it is also true of work.

Excerpt: “… In my own case, when I started my firm I was a recluse. I never ate lunch with co-workers, preferring the privacy of my closed office. I chafed at the thought of company picnics and social activities where I’d be consigned to idle chit-chat and would never have taken the initiative to call someone up and invite them to lunch. Frequently, I’d grow bored with work and have trouble following through and I was careless with my proofing.

Yet something about starting a firm changed me. Instead of running from company or dreading social or networking activities, I embrace them. I take pride in my work and serving clients in a way that I never felt when I worked for others. I am a completely different person and lawyer (not to mention generally, a far happier one) than the one who reluctantly started a law firm 15 years ago for want of anything better. And it’s solo practice that changed me, not the other way around….” (read full post at MyShingle)

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The newly redesigned Washington County (Oregon) website is up and running, however …

One of the many perils of migrating to a new county webpage is that links from this Oregon Legal Research blog to research guides on the Washington County (Oregon) Law Library’s (WCLL) webpage will be misdirected. Not all of them, but too many. I am slowly making my way through the cleanup, including updating previous blog post links to some of our most frequently used research guides.

Here is the list so far, with correct links for the guides I’ve been told are not linking properly from old posts. (You can also get to these guides from the WCLL webpage.)

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An excellent, and fast, tutorial on free and low cost legal research tools is available from the Duke University law librarians: The Unexploded Cow’s Guide to Legal Research

My previous posts on free and low-cost legal research are here and here (with additional imbedded links).

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