Oregon Legal Research BlogAt the end of the April 2015 “The Legal Writer” column in the OSB Bulletin, Suzanne Rowe poses a Brevity Challenge: “How much can you say in just a…
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Oregon Lawyers: Legal Writing Brevity Challenge
Search Results for: label/Oregon legal forms
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Free Online Legal Research Database: Public Library of Law (PLoS)
…fairly pricey) subscription-only legal research databases.You can now, however, “keyword” search the law at the Public Library of Law?Use their Advanced Options drop-down menu to limit your search to Oregon…
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Public Services Attorney/Law Librarian to Lead Self-Help Center in King County (Washington)
…legal proceedings. Recent statistics from the King County Superior Court show that in 63% of general civil cases at least one party was not represented by a lawyer. In domestic…
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Legal Self-Help, Self-Representation, and Self-Education: Public Law Libraries
invaluable legal assistance. Contact the Oregon State Bar Information and Referral Service or your local law library for additional free and low-cost lawyer referrals and services. See, for…
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How to Serve (Deliver) Legal Papers in Oregon
There is a new Multnomah County Circuit Court, Family Court FAQ guide on “How to Serve (Deliver) Legal Papers in Oregon.” (We thank Judge McKnight and her family law…
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Legal Citation Introduction and Guide
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (online ed. 2010), by Peter W. Martin, is available, with all the other goodies at the ever wonderful Cornell Legal Information (LII) website….
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Happy 9th Birthday Oregon Legal Research Blog
My first (and truly sad) Oregon Legal Research blog post was written 9 years ago – and this is post number 3,122. I’ve come a long way since then,…
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“Only 15 percent of the unique volumes in U.S. law libraries have been digitized …”
…digitized…. Legal Books as Apps We’ve all seen the typical legal advertisement on the Internet, on TV, or even on the covers of telephone books (remember them?): an image of…
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Legal Rights and Legal Answers for Young Oregonians
…all the books, read all the statutes, ask all your friends, and you still don’t have an answer. The Oregon State Bar has a program called Problem Solvers…
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Open Law Lab: “People don’t want to talk to lawyers, but they really want legal advice.”
…that pretty much sums up everything that makes legal self-help center and public law library program management so confounding: “People don’t want to talk to lawyers, but they really want…