Oregon Supreme Court Rules on OSB Diversity Requirement: The Oregon State Bar (OSB) reports: “On Tuesday, October 10, 2006, the Supreme Court voted 5-1 to reject the Board of Governors’ proposal to amend the MCLE rules to delete the Elimination of Bias requirement.” The OSB links to this story in the Statesman Journal. (We will continue to check for any official announcement or transcript of the proceedings, but the OSB web site will likely post the most timely information.)
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League of Oregon Cities: The League of Oregon Cities doesn’t call itself a blog but it is as useful as one. Right now, in addition to other news, it has a lot of good links to measures that will be on the November ballot.
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Small Business Legal Clinic: I’m rushing around for the next few days so don’t yet have all the links for this story, but did want to pass the news along. Tuesday’s (10/3/06) Portland Tribune reported on the opening of a new clinic staffed by Lewis & Clark Law Students offering, “free and low-cost legal assistance to owners of small business.” The story reports that the grant funding is from the city and Portland Business Alliance. (There may be others – this was a tiny story, more a blurb, at the bottom of page 2.) Law librarians and public librarians field a lot of information requests from small businesses and this specialized expertise is most welcome. The clinic, Small Business Legal Clinic, is at 422 NW Everett, in Old Town, Portland (see , our neighborhoods are now part of our addresses – we love our neighborhoods).
Right next to this blurb was another story about the archives at the City Auditor’s office. There will be an open house at the Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center. This bodes well for online access to historical record.
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My Summer Vacation and Intellectual Property Law: Is your 4th grade student essay on your summer vacation protected under intellectual property laws? The October 4, 2006, Library Link of the Day, links to a Washington Post story from McLean High School (Virginia?) where the students are challenging school officials who plan to turn over student work to Turnitin, a “a California company that specializes in catching cheaters” according to the article. (That is, it attempts to deter and detect plagiarism.) If nothing else, this is a great civics lesson for these students. They may learn more about the law, the constitution, and legal research than most of their elders. (Slashdot also posted on the story a few days ago.)
* Sometimes you do have to register to read the Washington Post. As of the writing of this post, however, I was able to link directly to the article without logging in.
** A link to the archives of Library Link of the Day (LLD) can be found at the bottom of the LLD home page.
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Librarians and the Lottery: Never say law librarians don’t look after you. King County Law Library has always been terrific (and I’ve always wanted to do something like this for Oregon public librarians) and now they have this, a Research Guide for Lottery Winners. (So Pick Me a Winner already 🙂
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Divorce and Children: See the Oct 3, Steve Duin Commentary, “Putting Children at the Center of the Solution” about the Multnomah County Child Centered Solutions nonprofit. (If it is no longer Oct 3rd, go to OregonLive, click on Columnists, and follow links to Steve Duin’s Oct 3rd, 2006, column – you will/may need to enter your zip code, etc.)
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Estate Planning: You CAN Take it With You: This story from CNET News, Taking Passwords To the Grave, should give you more than pause. Interesting. Linked to from
Bruce Schneier’s blog. And, as always, read the comments to Bruce’s posting.
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End of Week Cleanup:
Delta Librarian, the End: I’m not sure if I’m amazed more by the librarian or by the journalist who wrote this story, which is quite wonderful. This is excellent end-of-the-day reading. (From 9/27 posting of Library Link of the Day.)
Funny Lawyer Cards (really!): Visit them here, at the Billable Hour Card Store. (Link found through the efforts of Evan Schaeffer and you should follow his Writing Reply Briefs post to its source.)
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Oregon Law Commission and Maui: Hearings on Oregon’s government’s ethics laws
Wednesday, Oct. 4, hearing from 2 to 5 p.m. in State Capitol Hearing Room B in Salem, or the Thursday, Oct. 5, hearing from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Multnomah Building, Commissioners Conference Room 100, 501 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland. Or submit written comments to: Oregon Law Commission, Government Ethics Work Group, 245 Winter St. S.E., Salem, OR 97301.
These details were taken from the Oregonian “FactBox” at their web site. (The Factbox appears when you open the latest “failure to disclose” stories about legislators who accepted expenses-paid trips to Maui. It is also in the print edition today. 9/29.)
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Blorking: Blorking is “Blogging from Work” (and it also sounds a tad bit better than wogging – I think – wogging also sounds like something more fun than what you’d do at work). Blorking is what I do here at Blogspot’s “Oregon Legal Research.”
Blorkers have to be careful, which is not a bad thing. We have to watch what we say and how we say it, neither of which is a bad thing either. It’s just different from what non-Blorkers can do on their personal blogs (and I include those who are self-employed and don’t have a boss to keep them in line). There are Rules for Blorkers, so keep this in mind if you Blog from Work: There are very few blork posts that are worth losing your job over – and if there is one – it may just be the time to leave your job before doing something you will regret. Or, get yourself a personal blog and post to it on your own time.
I happen to love my job and the people I work with so prudent blogging might not allow me to let it all hang out, but I do get to blork about the best job in the world and pass along a few words of legal research wisdom and humor accumulated over almost 20 years of practice. And if blorking forces me to keep a few secrets, so be it. I’ve never been a woman of mystery, and if blorking makes me one, well, that’s kinda fun too.