Our favorite and first-stop legal self-help website is Oregon Law Help. If you need legal information and referrals on domestic violence, custody, child support, landlord-tenant, foreclosure, bankruptcy, taxes, wages…
There is a lot of legal self-help you can do that really is DIY (do it yourself), but if there is a lot of money at stake, property, children,…
…healthy sense of perspective and humor. Legal research is hard and time-consuming. But it can also be interesting, rewarding, and even fun. It’s not…
…the legal profession’s history of providing counsel for those unable to afford it….” [Link to National Equal Justice Library homepage.] Their collection includes oral histories, like this one about the…
…to bring over a British legal show that gives regular people access to the justice system. GRB is producing an American version of the BBC television show The Legalizer, and…
Commission on the Future of Legal Services website and report. “Background: Easy access to affordable legal services is critical in a society based on the rule of law. Yet…
From the Gallagher Law Library Blog: Alternative Legal Research Databases “When you think of online legal research, LexisAdvance, WestlawNext, or BloombergLaw probably spring to mind. With summer fast approaching,…
Do you need help with housing, children, crime, social security, benefits, debt, a small business, and other Real People legal matters? Sometimes you just need to start with one…
The State of Oregon Law Library (SOLL) is providing statewide access to 2 valuable legal research databases, previously unavailable for remote access to non-attorney Oregonians. (No legal research database…
Legal self-help is a bit of a crap-shoot unless you have official (i.e. court sanctioned and current) legal forms or the guiding hand of an attorney, but sometimes one…
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