As of yesterday, .law domains are available for purchase, but only by licensed attorneys. This new top level domain is an attempt to provide verification to lawyer websites. For…
…the Equal Access to Justice community, in which public law libraries play a pivotal yet virtually invisible role. Several months ago I proposed to a group of public law librarians…
Library (and law firm) database (and eBook) licensing can be tricky, to put it mildly. There are hundreds, thousands even, of fee-based subscription databases used by lawyers, legal researchers,…
Your local law library may provide some online resources you can access at home. Below are some examples from Washington County, Oregon. You can check with your local county…
The May 2014 OSB Bulletin has this article: “A Cure Worse than the Disease? Oregon’s New Social Media Law,” by Dan Webb Howard. Excerpt: “…. A Law of Unintended…
Joe Stephens, the State Law Librarian, is retiring at the end of June. Joe led the library and its staff through many improvements to the library’s services, collection and facility…
I keep running across news stories where someone talks about plans to “attend law school online.” I wondered about that, so did a little research. Here’s what I’ve found so far:…
Meet and listen to Multnomah County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Steven Bushong talk and answer questions about the Rule of Law and the work of the judicial branch of…
Holly Anne Gibbons, an Oregon lawyer, has written a practical article (Introduction) on “Incorporating Animal Law into Private Practice,” in the Lewis & Clark Law School journal, Animal Law…
When I worked in academic law libraries, a charming and [usually] young law student would invariably come up to the reference desk, ask a question, and then say deprecatingly,…
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