Oregon Legal Research BlogAt the end of the April 2015 “The Legal Writer” column in the OSB Bulletin, Suzanne Rowe poses a Brevity Challenge: “How much can you say in just a…
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Oregon Lawyers: Legal Writing Brevity Challenge
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They Had “Access,” But They Didn’t Get Justice (28 GJPLP 321 (2021))
Recommended reading for anyone who thinks more tech, online forms, and better legal design will substitute for professional legal services, i.e. People Need Lawyers (and lawyers in public service…
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Happy 9th Birthday Oregon Legal Research Blog
My first (and truly sad) Oregon Legal Research blog post was written 9 years ago – and this is post number 3,122. I’ve come a long way since then,…
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Oregon UELMA (Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act): 2013 HB 2944 and Authenticity
May 7, 2013, UELMA (Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act) update: The Judiciary Committee is holding UELMA (HB 2944, Intro) over until Thursday, May 9th, to get some more of…
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Legal Citation Introduction and Guide
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (online ed. 2010), by Peter W. Martin, is available, with all the other goodies at the ever wonderful Cornell Legal Information (LII) website….
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Free Online Legal Research Database: Public Library of Law (PLoS)
…don’t always need). However, there is another legal research database that does almost the same thing, but seems quite happy to stay quietly under the radar: The PLoL is a…
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Dream Job for the Right Person: Rare Book Librarian (Yale Law School)
Excerpts from the full Rare Book Librarian job posting, which you can find at the Yale University careers website: Required Education and Experience Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited…
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Oregon Dogs: Therapy, Assistance, and Companion Dogs
…and start researching the law. (I like this guide at the AALL website: How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers .) If the law library is…
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The Meaning of “Illegal Gambling”: Why Legal Definitions Matter
…is legal, even if it is a game of skill….” (link to full article from the ABA Journal) And keep it in mind the next time you run out of…
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Free and Low-Cost Legal Research Databases
Georgetown Law Center has a super-duper, extra-delicious and wondrous guide to free and low-cost legal research databases. I refer people to it so often that it has become…