Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: July 17, 2007

Can we reduce our dependence on foreign legal publishers?

By Laura Orr

To continue the discussion (albeit one-sided 🙂 of legal research strategy: Both Lexis and Westlaw are owned by foreign companies. American Lawyer and the National Law Journal are about…

Published on: August 8, 2006

By Laura Orr

Law Firm Forms – Who Owns the Copyright?: The law firm or the lawyer? Ed Poll talks about this at his Lawbiz blog and also links to a…

Published on: July 25, 2007

Legal research and puppies, life, love, rain – and ferrets

By Laura Orr

…the Congressional Record. This isn’t anything new and I admit this doesn’t sound like riveting stuff, but it is! Imagine (work with me here) being a writer, a lawyer or…

Published on: July 17, 2006

By Laura Orr

Whither Wireless?: Wireless in the Old Bailey (courtesy of Future Lawyer)? What would Rumpole say? Friends traveling around the U.S. this year tell me that they may not be…

Published on: June 20, 2006

By Laura Orr

Contract Lawyering: Kathy Foldes, Contract Lawyer and Trial Consultant, has a great article on how contract lawyering changed and enhanced her career and her personal life. You can…

Published on: July 27, 2007

How to find affordable legal counsel

By Laura Orr

Limited scope legal assistance, unbundled legal services, “discrete task representation” … these are all terms used to describe a particular type of lawyer-client business model. You can read more…

Published on: November 28, 2007

“Oddest Oregon Secretary of State Election Race”

By Laura Orr

…secretary of state’s job is arguably less difficult than serving as state treasurer (who oversees billions of dollars in investment funds) or as attorney general (who is essentially the lawyer…

Published on: April 1, 2014

Happy April’s Fools Day: Lawyers Clients, Fools? One and the Same?

By Laura Orr

…legal documents. 2) Talk to a lawyer who is getting paid BIG bucks to fix the mistakes made by that “someone” in #1. You can (or may be able to)…

Published on: July 30, 2008

Response-Ability: Defending the Yoga Instructor When a Student is Injured

By Laura Orr

…things), but also a presentation on possible defenses a yoga instructor (and his/her lawyer) could sort through if a student is injured while in a yoga class. (One of course…

Published on: January 30, 2008

Spanish Language Dictionaries in the Courts

By Laura Orr

…first read about this article at the Foreign Collection Development blog, and then found a link to the full article here (and thank you Colorado Lawyer for reprint rights!)…