…of standardized, court-authorized, forms. Other states (e.g. Oregon) do not, though we do have some (see for example in family law matters). Public law library employees seldom hand…
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge You’s column on pro se litigants in the April 2013 MBA Lawyer gives succinct and useful advice to attorneys who are facing self-represented litigants…
County Law Library was established in 1926 by order of the Washington County Court. It is supported by Oregon legislative appropriation and operated by Washington County in consultation with the…
To continue my Oregon Legal Research blog post on Let’s Kill All the Law Libraries …. What’s a “Virtual Law Library?” Lots of people throw the term around, but…
ABA Journal News: Savings produced by court budget cuts are exceeded by harmful economic effects (white paper) The white paper, “The Economics of Justice,” by Eric J. Magnuson, Steven…
For those of you tracking citizen’s arrest cases: Oregonian article: Parking-law bulldog drops a case: Citizen citations – Attorney Eric Bryant ticketed officers in prohibited zones, May 02, 2009,…
…in Oregon. The link is to a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press post. Excerpt: “The names of individuals buried in a state cemetery are death records, the…
Nachtigal of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Ore., will be inducted into the National Center for State Courts’ Warren E. Burger Society…. The Warren E. Burger Society honors individuals…
…it doesn’t hurt to have lawyers on the other side who rely more on muscle and tricks rather than on law. And of course, a little luck doesn’t hurt, either….
U.S. Presidents have been speaking out to members of Congress for a long time, and vice versa. Supreme Court Justices speak out every week, at the very least, and…
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