Oregon Legal Research BlogSolo and small law firm practitioners, like small libraries, have a tough time achieving certain purchasing economies of scale. Bar associations offer some group discounts, but not always for…
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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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“Free and Online” is not Quite the Same as “Equal Access to Justice”
Lewis & Clark Law School Library’s “Law in the News” roundup, brings us this story: “Law Libraries Struggle with More Patrons, Less Funding,” by Jose Pagliery, Daily Business Review,…
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New Douglas County (Oregon) Law Library Website
Today we’re featuring the new website for the Douglas County (Oregon) Law Library. Oregon county law libraries offer lots of services, individually and as an association (we share information…
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Washington County Law Librarians Set Hours in Beaverton and Tigard
In an effort to make law library services more widely available, a law librarian is now on duty to provide assistance on a walk-in basis at both the Beaverton…
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Willy-Nilly is Not a Legal Research Strategy: Public Law Librarians and Advice to Unpublished Children’s Book Authors
Pro se (aka pro per or self-represented) law library patrons have a tough time of it. If you didn’t learn in high school or college how to learn, how…
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Does Your Chosen Candidate for Oregon Elected Office Know Local Government Budgeting Law?
…laws. From the Local Budget Law page of the Oregon Department of Revenue: “Most local governments in Oregon must prepare and adopt an annual or biennial budget. Schools, counties, cities,…
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The Secret Ingredient? Add a Law Librarian
Our county law library patrons know this already, especially the solo and small law firm attorneys, but so do big law firms: “ The Secret Ingredient? Add a…
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Law dot Gov Update
For those who are waiting (breathlessly, perhaps) and wondering whatever happened to Law dot Gov, especially given how fast all those other new dot gov sites have popped up,…
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Can a Private Publisher Own Public Law? Fastcase v. Casemaker
Citing law back to Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591 (1834), “Fastcase maintains that public law cannot be copyrighted ….” [Quoted from Ambrogi, Feb. 6, 2016, article.]…