Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: January 6, 2010

Traffic Week: Turn, Turn, Turn Signals

By Laura Orr

…(including police and parking enforcement vehicles) don’t have working turn signals, or maybe there is a turn-signal force-field around the state that shuts them off, but get yours fixed, or…

Published on: November 5, 2009

Lost and Found in Oregon: Finders, Keepers? Losers, Weepers?

By Laura Orr

…and Unclaimed Property;Unlawfully Parked Vehicles 2007 EDITION LOST, UNCLAIMED PROPERTY; PARKED VEHICLES PROPERTY RIGHTS AND TRANSACTIONS RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF FINDERS AND OWNERS98.005 Rights and duties of finder of money…

Published on: January 4, 2010

Traffic Week (Oregon): Creative (and Green) Modes of Transportation

By Laura Orr

I’ve always found a lot of mainstream transportation types fairly limited on the imagination front. Transportation types speak about bikes, cars, buses, and feet, with a few drive-by motorcycles,…

Published on: January 8, 2010

Traffic Week Miscellany: Human Transit, Jump Starts, and, of course, Cows

By Laura Orr

…article: Is a Cow a Motor Vehicle? “Legend has it that the publication of The Great Gatsby pushed Ernest Hemingway into a deep depression. Hemingway is supposed to have confided…

Published on: February 24, 2009

Criminal Background Checks on Employees and Volunteers

By Laura Orr

…is not to say that nonprofit organizations or small businesses on tight budgets can’t do some kind of background checking themselves. But you won’t learn how in 3 minutes. You…

Published on: September 5, 2006

By Laura Orr

Security Breaches and Your Small Legal Practice: Do you think that just because you are a small business that you are immune from security and identity theft breaches or…

Published on: March 30, 2006

By Laura Orr

Small business and IT Security: The Better Business Bureau has developed a guide to security and privacy specifically for small businesses. You can find it here (thanks to…

Published on: October 3, 2005

By Laura Orr

CATALOGING A SMALL LIBRARY COLLECTION: Need to set up and catalog a small collection? We’re trying this: http://www.librarything.com/….

Published on: July 22, 2013

Who Regulates Automobile/Car Rental Companies in Oregon?

By Laura Orr

…the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 5) Consider Oregon Small Claims Court (but you should investigate other options first). (There is now a book on Oregon Small Claims Court – yay!)…

Published on: March 14, 2014

How Does Oregon Rank in the (Access to) Justice Index

By Laura Orr

…1) You’ve just been charged with DUII. 2) You are a small business owner, or want to start a small business, and need to know about how, or if, to…