Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: January 16, 2008

Deep Repositories of Scholarship (and “Information”)

By Laura Orr

…the University of Oregon’s Scholars’ Bank. Universities were at the forefront of web content management, which the legal community appreciates greatly (see e.g. Cornell, Michigan, and hundreds of other educational…

Published on: June 22, 2006

By Laura Orr

Law Firm Web Site 101: If you are thinking about setting up a web site for your law firm, here are a couple of good places to begin reading…

Published on: November 22, 2006

By Laura Orr

…backward as the case may be). Look on the web or ask at your local library to find out which government office, if any, regulates the business, the service, the…

Published on: January 2, 2007

Low-Cost Online Legal Databases

By Laura Orr

…both the University of Washington Law Library and the King County Law Library web pages. Some of the links are naturally Washington State-based, but not all. Between…

Published on: July 6, 2007

Corky v. Petunia: Pro Se Litigants & Lawyers, Evidence & Relevance

By Laura Orr

This link from Shlep to the Montana Public Service Law web site (and their June 19th Corky and Petunia story), brings these thoughts to mind. We in the law…

Published on: July 26, 2007

Free Information is Better then Free Stuff

By Laura Orr

…a small annual fee. Check out this CNET Story, Free Information for the Taking. Check out Multnomah County Public Library web page.Check out Washington County Public Library web pages.Check out…

Published on: December 26, 2008

Clackamas County’s Four-Day Work Week and Sheriff’s YouTube Debut

By Laura Orr

…using a popular video-sharing Web site in hopes of catching criminals. The sheriff’s office has started its own YouTube page, where deputies are posting videos on open cases, as well…

Published on: March 3, 2010

Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates

By Laura Orr

…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…

Published on: August 15, 2007

The devil is in the commas….like usual

By liz

…trying to find justification for uses of the comma in web copy without resorting to ranting and raving, I started with my old trusty print copy of the Chicago Manual…

Published on: June 29, 2006

By Laura Orr

…The Oregonian reports today (6/29) that the Oregon State Police will launch on Friday a (not “the”) sex offender whereabouts web site. There isn’t yet anything on their web site,…