Actually folks …. This isn’t strictly, actually, literally a legal research web site, but it may make you think a bit more, really, about how you actually, like talk and literally write. It’s very funny too. So stop with the actually, literally, like, and their ilk. “Literally” has its own web site now. And here’s one on legal writing too. But don’t forget to comment if the blogger gets it wrong. It’s your actual, literal, right – like wow.
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Marion County Law Library: The Marion County Law Library will be closed, along with the Courthouse, until further notice. OSB’s web site is a good place to check for information as well as the Marion County courthouse web site.
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Keeping up with the High Tech times: What’s peering, multimodalilsm, or “disruptive technology?” Even if your answer is, “I haven’t a clue,” make time to learn. One of the best pieces of advice given to me in the late 80’s (when I too hadn’t much of a clue about technology, other than email and FTP) was to subscribe to a computer magazine, any computer magazine. Most of it would be unintelligible in the beginning, but by the 3rd or 4th month and beyond, you’d discover that you’d learned an awful lot, painlessly. (This system is not unlike someone I know who learned English by reading pornography to minimize the boredom factor. Smart guy. Friend of my parents. Of course this was 50 years ago and porno seems to have changed bit – maybe not so “highbrow” now some might say?) So read Isen Blog, Dennis Kennedy, and GigaLaw, to name only 3 lawyer techies in a field of dozens, hundreds, thousands.
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Paper or Plastic, Print or Wexis? Law students still prefer online legal research even when their print research is more successful. See today’s (11/14) post on Out of the Jungle, “Another Nail in the Coffin.”
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Employment law blog: I’m trying out this “Jottings of an Employer’s Lawyer” blog. I try out a lot of blogs for a few weeks. Some sink of their own weight (too many words, too many postings, too esoteric, or just simply too much of everything, crying out plaintively for an editor with a big red pen) and others are just perfect for keeping up with what is in the corners of the web.
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Jim Calloway Blog: The preceding posts come courtesy of Jim’s blog, a never-ending source of useful law practice tips.
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Law practice management: Another blog, The Practice, from a solo/small law firm practitioner. Looks promising.
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2005 Fed Sentencing Guidelines: The 2005 Federal Sentencing Guidelines are online, here.
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Measure 37 appeal fast-tracked: The Oregon Supreme Court has fast-tracked the appeal from the Marian County, Judge James opinion. As of news reports today, the Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for January 10th, 2006. The briefs will be available in print from selected law libraries around the state. Other sources of Measure 37 information may be found at these web sites: 1000 Friends of Oregon, Oregonians in Action, Oregon Department of Land Conservation, or the League of Oregon Cities.
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Identity theft: One of the most thorough and practical articles on identity theft I have seen in a long time is in a current issue of InfoToday. Sad thing is, though, that if you follow all the instructions, you’ll need to give up a lot of free time – a LOT of free time – TONS of free time. And we all have a lot of that, don’t we. Don’t we? The article, by Carol Ebbington, is here.