The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office posted this announcement, June 19th: “Unfortunately, it’s a public record,” has been the Secretary of State Corporation Division’s constant refrain whenever we…
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State Bars Exploring Licensing Limited-Practice Non-Lawyers
From Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice blog: California Bar Explores Joining Movement for Non-Lawyer Practice California, Washington, and New York are featured in this article on the movement to…
United State Code (U.S.C.) Lost Laws
It’s not hard to be perplexed when trying to understand the U.S. Code (link to searchable versions) and the niceties of codification. Maybe this will help: Lost Laws:…
More Charter Review Around the State
One Charter Review door closes (though not quite completely) in Portland and another one opens in Washington County….
Oregon State Courts Closed: April 19, 2013, is a Furlough Day at OJD (aka OJB)
Visit the Oregon Judicial Branch (aka OJD or OJB) website for more information. Many county law libraries will be open (visit the OCCLL website for info) for legal research…
Lawyer Ethics: Advising Marijuana Users and Businesses (Washington State)
From Trial Ad (UW): Ethics of Advising Marijuana Users and Businesses Excerpt: “Under RPC 1.2(d), a “lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client,…
Legal Information Tower of Babel: Law dot Gov, National Inventory, and the U.K. Law dot Gov Project
…Report Contest Law dot gov is a Government Website Work in Progress and the tireless founders and contributors include the self-employed, law school employees, professional association employees, or other government…
Oregon Legislative Bill Tracking via Oregonlive
tracking webpages, though the Oregonlive service will be around only as long as Oregonlive is around, which is why librarians want governments to preserve and protect government information on government…
Identity Theft and Freezing Credit
…We provided the librarian with some starting point resources. Both Oregon and the US have consumer protection resources. Oregon Law Help has a page of resources about credit reports and…
Who are “the people?” What does it mean to be “born in the U.S.A.”?
…uncommon question in public libraries, law libraries, and in government documents libraries (even after the 2008 election). It’s also one of those questions to which we all know the answer…
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