2005 LAW LIBRARY VALUES: OSB has posted here their “2005 Law Libraries: Values” report in PDF. Today it is on page two of the Bar News, but it tends to sink into the site, out of sight, as time goes on defying even a word search. It reappears on page one periodically (tax times of course). Contact your law librarian if you have trouble finding it or OSB (503-620-0222). Or me. I save it on my own computer to avoid the hassle of searching for it when our attorneys need it and can just email it to them.
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DISASTER PLAN: Do you have a disaster plan for your law practice? One place to begin is here, at Law Practice Today (LPT) with their Disaster Recovery issue. LPT is also an excellent site to check out on a regular basis (daily isn’t necessary).
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LEGAL ASPECTS OF BLOGGING: Blogs are not for the faint of heart for a number of reasons and one of those is, of course, related to the legality of what you do on that blog. EFF has a useful guide here that could serve as a primer.
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APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS FROM OJD: Did you know that clicking on OJD’s Media Release web page is a quick way to check for up to the minute releases of Oregon Court of Appeals and Supreme Court opinions?
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More free stuff: http://www.freefulltext.com/. But is anything really “free?”
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OSB PLF is holding their practical skills CLE for new admittees Nov 2-4. Go to their web site for more details: www.osbplf.org.
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Why don’t Google and Yahoo start with non-copyrighted material instead of getting into food fights with copyright holders? The legal community alone could keep them busy scanning for the next decade with government documents, briefs, and much, much more if you include retrospective collections. And once the Age of Secrecy is over (perhaps in 2008?), imagine how many more documents must be scanned to put them back in the public domain where they belong.
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OREGON COUNTY LAW LIBRARIES: Oregon solo and small law firm practitioners are very lucky though many don’t know it. There is a public law library in just about every county. That library may be a wall in a county office, a 5,000 sq ft facility, or a large room in the local university library, but at my last count, 16 of those Oregon county law libraries have excellent basic and current law book collections and qualified law library staff with access to Lexis or Westlaw and a network of law librarians near and far who seldom leave any reference request unfilled. Our regular patrons swear by our services whether it be for meeting room space, CLEs to check out and use for MCLE credit, for online searches, and much more. (We’re also edgy, opinionated, and funny, as are many law librarians – what more could you want, apart from the promised Love and Affection awaiting us all out there, if we can tear ourselves away from the work we love long enough to pay attention.)
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Oregon appellate court briefs for both the PERS and Defense of Marriage, aka Same-Sex Marriage ,(Li v Oregon, dkt # S51612) cases are being microfilmed as I write. (Both opinions are in 338 Oregon Reports.) Many of the briefs for Li are online (ACLU web site among others), but not all of them. There are 6 public law libraries in Oregon that get the microfilmed briefs (after we finish microfilming them) and you can contact them for copies. The State Law Library and Multnomah Law Library also keep bound volumes of the paper briefs. We (Washington County Law Library) keep loose paper copies for a while and could likely arrange to scan them if necessary, i.e. if you need lots of briefs and don’t want to go blind reading them on microfilm or get carpal tunnel syndrome photocopying thousands of pages.