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April Fool, or Not: The Oregon State Bar is Looking for Lawyer Poets
Calling all Poets (from the OSB Legal Pubs blog) But if you’re going to write haiku, please, please, please do it right. (Sigh.) Haiku isn’t what you wrote in…
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Scientific American: Blogging is Therapeutic?!
…taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress -coping mechanism, expressive…
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Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…
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Elisor, Desuetude, Misprision: huh?
…talking about those legal Latin words and phrases that can make even (especially) legal writing gurus, who usually favor plain speaking and writing, roll their eyes. There are many law…
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Social Media Policies – and a $70,000 Multnomah County Job
…imagination, writing skills, and respect. The life of a PIO will never be the same again. Multnomah County has opened up a job for a “Chair’s Office Communication Director/Multnomah…
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Justice Bedsworth: Will a Laughing Jury Convict?
…learn to approach every police report as if you were picking up lost correspondence between Mark Twain and Alexander Pushkin. Granted, the writing won’t be up to the standards of…
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Why I (sometimes) Don’t Like the Term Social Media (with a side of Men With Pens)
…The people who are blogging seriously aren’t college kids writing about beer parties. In fact, college kids are generally mystified as to why someone would spend four hours a day…
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E-Ref = Frustration Squared
Virtual Email Reference It’s not easy explaining how to research a legal question – and try doing it in high-heels and backwards – no, wait, I mean in an…