state appellate courts specify an official dictionary.) If you do a little research, however, you will find that the 2002 print edition of this dictionary is the same as the…
(Other Oregon State offices will be closed, too, e.g. DMV.) Oregon state courts and their offices will be closed Friday, May 25, 2012, because of budget cuts. It’s also…
Some (maybe all?) Oregon courts are offering TurboCourt online document preparation for Small Claims litigants. I haven’t seen TurboCourt in action. Visit the Washington County (Oregon) Circuit Court website…
Note: I use the term “temporary” marriage below instead of “short-term” marriage because the latter is how marriages of very short duration are described and labeled in some courts….
ONLY a licensed member of Oregon State Bar may advise and represent you in Oregon courts. Please see the How to Find a Lawyer in Oregon…
Oregon State Bar MCLE program homepage and database. For lawyers who want to visit the Washington County Law Library in Hillsboro, check out the CLE Information pages on our website….
to research the history of an Oregon statute, here are some hints: 1) Don’t forget the beaten path: you still need to read through the legislative journals and calendars, minutes,…
I blogged about this some time ago, but maybe, maybe, …. See 6/25/08, Willamette Week Murmurs story: ‘Get me rewrite: Since Oregon’s founders wrote the state Constitution in 1857,…
State law school law reviews often ignore their own state’s laws and it drives me crazy. I can’t count the number of times an attorney has asked for an…
For all the talk about “it’s all online,” we recently noticed that the Oregon Attorney General’s Administrative Law Manual and Uniform and Model Rules of Procedure under the APA…
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