I recently asked law librarians for alternate, non-proprietary, ways of saying “Shepard’s” or “KeyCite” (or Shepardizing or KeyCiting). Below you’ll find a short list and a long list of…
We routinely get calls from attorneys who are looking to get rid of law books. They may be retiring or downsizing. The answer has evolved, but it is generally…
Just because landlord-tenant law is state-specific and local law for most of us mere mortals doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent treatises and resources on the subject for those…
It’s that time of year when high school and college students start asking questions about “careers in the law.” There is a lot of “recommended reading” at law school…
There are excellent consumer law websites all over the web, but sometimes you just need the local touch and a local story. This is because a lot of…
If you’re not an expert researcher or if you don’t have access to a large law library with professional foreign and international law librarians, the key to productive legal…
The list of Oregon law blogs is growing. Check out Justia’s Oregon Law Blogs list and my own sidebar list of Oregon law blogs. Neither is absolutely complete and…
…Law Librarian position will be posted at our county Human Resources website starting Saturday, the best Pi Day ever: 3/14/15! (PiDay website and Wikipedia’s Pi/Pie Day.) Questions about this recruitment must…
The Oregon State Bar has posted the latest Law Library Values report. You can also find previous reports, back to 2004….
The collection of materials in the Oregon State Bar (OSB) BarBooks database is impressive – see the list below. Our lawyers and self-represented litigants still like the print…
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