Oregon Legal Research BlogFor you non-lawyers out there, yes this sometimes happens. Lawyers really do learn useful things in law school and know things mere mortals don’t! (But not everything, so…
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Federal Law Preempts Oregon Law
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Volunteer with the Oregon Attorney General’s Consumer Hotline
Attorneys and other consumer law professionals: See the notice at the Oregon DOJ / AJ homepage. “Are you interested in volunteering for DOJ? The Attorney General’s Consumer Hotline is…
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Laptops: “Treat Them Like Cash”
Consumer Reports and OnGuard both had useful laptop and computer security articles recently: From OnGuard: “Treat it like cash.” From Consumer Reports, a story on protecting yourself online….
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Putting the um … back in Consumer Law
…think before you sign up, sign on, or sign anywhere on any dotted line. And surely before anyone attaches anything to your mind or body. For additional consumer law…
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Legal Research at Home
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…
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Online Law Blues: Life Without Lawyers (and Law Libraries)?
…my post on Let’s (Not) Kill All the Law Libraries (and my own follow-up), arguing that if “the law” really was “all online,” then why would we need lawyers?…
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Law Librarian Job: University of Oregon Law School Library
Law Reference Librarian Closes: July 16, 2010Eugene, OR “… The person in this position works collaboratively with three law-trained reference librarians and several student reference assistants to provide extensive…
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Legal Research Databases in Oregon County Law Libraries
We’ve updated our guide to legal research, and other, databases in Oregon county law libraries: OREGON COUNCIL OF COUNTY LAW LIBRARIES (OCCLL): ONLINE DATABASE SUBSCRIPTIONS (or from this Washington…
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What Do You Know About Public Law Libraries? A Reading List
Here in Oregon we are in a strange sort of campaign for continued county law library funding. If you would like to weigh in on the subject, but don’t…
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Legal News Roundup and Why We Really Need Organizations Like the Classroom Law Project
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,…