JIM CALLOWAY LAW PRACTICE BLOG: I’m a fan of Jim Calloway’s web site for many reasons, including the fact that it’s sometimes hard to tell his blog from Bruce Schneier’s, another favorite of mine. Jim Calloway posted on October 20th a blurb (is a blog blurb a blurg or a blub?) on what your color printer could reveal about you to law enforcement or other interested parties. Be afraid, be very afraid. But the librarian community can still be trusted, mostly. Your records are safe with us and we have the T-shirt to prove it. Unshelved creators have a new T-shirt for the holiday season that reads: “What Happens in the Library Stays in the Library.” Ain’t that grand.
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STATE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY GUIDES: For those who didn’t catch this on Boley Blogs, here’s a link to a marvelous compilation of state legislative history guides on the web.
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AUTO LAW FROM OSB: The grapevine tells me that OSB will be offering a new CLE deskbook (aka manual, looseleaf, or in OSB nomenclature, publication) on Automobile Law. This will be most welcome to Oregon attorneys and law librarians. Publication date is “pretty soon,” which is ok, given the amount of selfless, and likely unremunerated, labor that goes into these publications by the attorneys who write the OSB CLE looseleaf manuals.
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YAHOO SITE EXPLORER: Not everyone has a workplace IT policy that permits any or all downloaded applications you may wish to play with or use. (Another advantage of being your own boss, eh.) Google toolbar was a boon, but a workplace no-no for me and many others. But Yahoo Site Explorer might be a good substitute. See Bates Information Services, my source for this excellent legal research tip, for additional tips. Her monthly column is well worth the time spent reading it.
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OREGON AG OPINIONS: Nothing new, but a reminder never hurts: Oregon AG Opinions are online back to 1997, here.
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LAWYER GRIEVANCE PROCESS: Is it time to open up the lawyer grievance process? See MyShingle posting from October 20th about a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on the lawyer grievance process.
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WI-FI AND ONIONS: Need a quote to make you laugh every time you hear it? Hermiston rocks, with city Wi-Fi: “Outside the cloud, I can’t even get DSL,” said Hale. “When I’m inside it, I can take a picture of one of my onions, plug it into my laptop and send it to the Subway guys in San Diego and say, ‘Here’s a picture of my crop.”‘ From KATU today.
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MARION COUNTY MEASURE 37 CASE: Friday’s (10/14/05) Marion County Measure 37 case can be found here at the Marion County Circuit Court web site.
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OSB DISCOUNTING ABA BOOKS: The OSB offers a 15% discount off the ABA price for many of their publications. Link to the PDF catalog and order form from here. You may be able to review some of the books at your local law library. ABA publications are quite popular with our local attorneys so it’s worth a look.
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Who’s on First? from John Doyle’s Legal Periodicals Blog, Sept 27th, 2005 posting.
“When is Winter?
Is northern hemisphere Winter at the end of the year, or the beginning of the year? Would you expect a journal’s Winter issue to precede the Spring issue or follow the Fall issue? The law journal editors don’t really know either. The tendency is to have the Winter issue precede the Spring issue in the same year, but there are many examples where the opposite occurs, where the journal publishes the Fall 2004 issue and then subsequently the Winter 2004 issue (examples are: Hofstra L. Rev., John Marshall L. Rev., Marq. L. Rev., U. Cin. L. Rev., U. Pitt. L. Rev.). “