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Small Claims Court in Oregon: Advice and Tips for Plaintiffs and Defendants
Important Reminder: Oregon small claims courts are county justice and county circuit courts, not statewide courts, so you need to learn how small claims courts are managed in the county where…
Project on Predatory Student Lending
…Financial Protection Board (at least for the next few days) and your state’s consumer law resources at the Department of Justice or maybe other departments. Your own state’s legal services…
Criminal Law: How to Think Like a Lawyer (Nov 2016, PUGS, Portland, OR)
THIS 4-WEEK MINI-LAW SCHOOL COURSE. YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO BRIEF A CASE, EXPERIENCE THE FAMOUS “SOCRATIC METHOD” & GET AN UNDERSTANDING HOW THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM REALLY WORKS. “…
Oregon Innocence Project: Two Views of the Constitution, Criminal Prosecution, and Criminal Defense
…copy.) “Why Oregon Innocence Project has raised questions about notorious murder case (OPINION),” by Steve Wax, April 5, 2016, Legal Director of Oregon Innocence Project, a program of Oregon Justice…
Oregon CLE: Continuing Debate Over the Sequential Lineup
…research has prompted numerous reforms in how police collect eyewitness identification evidence and how courts evaluate this evidence. Some prosecutors and some in the scientific community have begun to voice…
ID Theft: A Tax Return Grab and Go (aka Hit and Run) at the Post Office
and run street perpetrators are still managing to make other people’s lives miserable. Oregon Scam Alert Network (from the Oregon Department of Justice). But don’t let your guard down about…
Animal Law at the Oregon Legislature: 18 March 2015
…of Animal Law Jacob Kamins, State of Oregon Animal Cruelty Deputy District Attorney Scott Heiser, Animal Legal Defense Fund Director of Criminal Justice Program March 18, 2015 3:00…
January 2015 ABA Journal: Pet Nups, UPL, IP for Kids, and Much More
The January 2015 ABA Journal has these articles and more: “Washington state moves around UPL, using legal technicians to help close the justice gap,” by Robert Ambrogi “It’s unethical…
ABA launches online database of collateral consequences for each U.S. jurisdiction
ABA launches online database of collateral consequences for each U.S. jurisdiction “WASHINGTON , Dec. 16, 2014 — The American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section has completed the National…
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