…advise you on your legal, and non-legal, options. Apart from researching case law, and you’ll need a legal research database or access to your state’s (or the federal) digest to…
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Oregon Traffic Law: Safety Corridor Designations and Traffic Ticket Legal Research
What if you get a traffic ticket and it’s based on the police officer’s wrong assumption about the law? It never hurts to do a little legal research, and…
Justice Bedsworth Looks (askance) Upon the Entertainment Value of the Internet (and Legal Memos)
When legal memos are one and the same with the “content” of the Internet, is there any hope for the future? “Cats, Frogs, and [don’t spam me please*]…
Legal Assistant Jobs at Lewis & Clark Law School: App deadline Dec 14!
These look like interesting jobs: Visit the Lewis & Clark Human Resources website for information about these positions (and others): “Faculty Legal Assistant — Provides advanced…
Time to Rewrite Your Blawg/Blog’s Description?
I looked at my original blog Oregon Legal Research (OLR) description (aka header) (unchanged since I started blogging in October 2005) and gave a small shudder. I then read…
Fixing a Broken Legal System: from the TED Conference
…Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System: 2010 TED Video of Philip Howard’s Presentation Visit TED on a rainy, snowy, sunny, icy, warm, hot, cold, or just plain any…
When Lawyers Sue Legal Publishers: Contracts and/or Ethics?
This is an interesting story: Law Professors Seek Injunction over ‘Sham’ Treatise Supplement, by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, April 16, 2009. Excerpt: “An ugly dispute has erupted…
Legal Phrase Origins (with jokes): Don’t make a federal case out of it!
…these phrases and many more in the new book “Lawtalk: the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions,” by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro….
Low-Cost Online Legal Databases
…them they have some of the best, most practical, and sometimes even fun legal research information web pages. Thanks for sharing! Here’s the UW Low-Cost Legal Research Services on…
Careers for Lawyers Inside and Outside the Law
…that could benefit from someone with legal training. Careers in the law: Law school admissions and career services websites are a good place to begin when searching…
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