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From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:

How does one request a pardon? I wish I could say, “let me count the ways.” But I can’t and highly recommend you talk to your lawyer, if you have one, or that you call the Oregon State Bar (OSB) to find a lawyer who can advise you (or read this How to Find a Lawyer in Oregon guide, which also links to the OSB).

And here’s what else I’ve learned about Oregon pardons (for crimes committed under Oregon state law). There may be more in future posts and you can also let me know if you have anything to add:

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From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:

It can been said that future wars will be over food and water, especially water. The future is here and the wars are on, though for some (not all) that war is only between people wielding lawyers rather than swords:

Navigating Water Law in Oregon, by Janine Robben, in the November issue of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin, is a good read. (OSB Bulletin Archives are here.)

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Now if only we could stop looking to Congress to come to our rescue (Congress? To the rescue? Good grief!) from the stock market fearmongers and foreclosure doomsayers (and yes, Congress does have a role in fixing some problems, but so do we!) — but let’s also keep moving along with a little education and self-help of our own:

In my previous post on foreclosures in Oregon, I mentioned that the Oregon State Bar (OSB) was about to release two new Legal Links programs. They are out now – yeah! – and you can view them online – no TV required (Yeah! Feb 2009 is fast approaching and my 23 year-old TV is toast – what a recycling/landfill nightmare that’s all going to be in March 2009).

From the OSB public service webpages:

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Writers have excellent online and professional organization resources (including libraries!) for researching the publishing business, but two topics a lot of writers don’t think about, until it’s too late:

1) Publishing scams (see, e.g. Writers Beware, from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.)

2) What to do if your publisher goes bankrupt?

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I read this Small talk blurb in the Thursday, October 23, 2008, Oregonian, and found some good advice and resources for small business owners:

Excerpts from Small talk:

“…Many small-business owners believe you should never go it alone — you should always have a support system, whether it consists of financial advisers, mentors, fellow entrepreneurs or consultants, to guide you. It’s true in the best of economic times, and it’s certainly the case in the current climate.
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This is an extremely difficult economy, and even veterans need a sounding board. They find it from a growing number of resources, among them peer or networking groups, mentors, professional and trade groups and government-sponsored organizations such as SCORE, an association of executives that counsels small-business owners. Very often, this help comes at no cost.

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From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:

HALT has a new (free and downloadable) booklet on Understanding Attorney Fees: So You Can Keep Legal Costs Down. You can also link to it from the HALT homepage and from their Legal Information Clearinghouse webpage.

Read about HALT here. They have many useful legal self-help publications free or for low-cost.

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The flux is at it again. You know, when some relatively rare topic arises in conversation and then it comes up again and again. (I blogged about the flux a long while ago, here, but I was in a chatty mood so it’s a longer post than you might be up for.)

Anyway, the topic of copywriting legal documents came up a couple of weeks ago, and then it came up again and then again. Today I ran across this article, while looking at a webpage on searching public records, that I linked to from the Law Librarian Blog:

1) Due Diligence in Drafting: Copyrights in Legal Documents, by Thomas J. Stueber. (This article can be found in other online and print publications.)

2) There is also this one: “The Highest Form of Flattery? Application of the Fair Use Defense against Copyright Claims for Unauthorized Appropriation of Litigation Documents,” by Davida H. Isaacs, Northern Kentucky University – Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Missouri Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 391, 2006.

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From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian:


I posted recently about Service Dogs (and other animals) and in a recent Saturday’s Oregonian (11/8/08) there was a letter to the editor with a link to another resource on Service Animals:

1) U.S. Department of Justice: type in service animal (singular) or service animals (plural) for different results. See e.g. their COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT

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