Oregon Legal Research BlogIf you’re a handy-dandy sort, and need to give a special present to a lawyer or law librarian in your life, try this project: make a lamp using books…
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Making a Lamp out of Law Books
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Contract Drafting: Lawyers v. Law Students
Adams) of a legal writing instructor’s contract-drafting exercise with his students: A Report on the Penn Law 2007 Contract-Redrafting Project “Each semester that I teach, I inflict a series of…
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Oregon Estate Law: Wills and Trusts: Forms and “Self-Help” Advice
This is an update to previous posts on estate planning (and on pro se litigants): Public law libraries, and public libraries generally, get a lot of questions from…
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Job Opening: Part-time Oregon County Law Library Assistant Position
The Clackamas County Law Library seeks a part-time (18 hours/week) Law Library Assistant who is available to begin employment soon after July 1. Primary responsibilities involve providing legal research…
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Legal Challenge to 2007 Oregon Censorship Law
News stories: Oregonlive 4/29/08, story, by Ashbel S. Green, Suit filed to throw out law meant to shield kids: Excerpt “A group of book stores, health groups and…
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Stun Guns and Tasers in Oregon: Is it Lawful to Own a Personal ECD?
This question usually comes to the law librarian in this form: Is it legal (lawful) to own and use a personal stun gun (or taser) in Oregon? But related…
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Bite #7, Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #7 (Bill of Rights, 40-42)
…the penalty for aggravated murder as defined by law shall be death upon unanimous affirmative jury findings as provided by law and otherwise shall be life imprisonment with minimum sentence…
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SALC Race for Justice in Portland: Battle of the Law Firms!
This is Race for Justice weekend (Saturday, June 20, 2009), to raise money for the St. Andrew Legal Clinic (SALC), which serves low-income Oregonians in family law matters. The…
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Summer Reading: Law and Non-law Fiction for Attorneys
The Oregon State Bar’s Ian Pisarcik, Legal Publications Attorney Editor, gives us a list of intriguing books for our reading pleasure: “As an attorney, two things are reasonably…
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“What If” in Law and Literature … and “Lives Like Loaded Guns”
…we are so inclined. In Law: Anyone who teaches law, thinks about law, or is faced with the law has to think about the “What Ifs” in life. Here is…