Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: September 5, 2006

By Laura Orr

…party? Do you take your outgoing mail to the Post Office or is your mail ever delivered to a location that others have access to? Do you spend more time…

Published on: August 24, 2006

By Laura Orr

Veteran’s Issues and Legally Speaking: Tonight on Legally Speaking, a TVCTV cable access program, our host, Jim Hilborn, and guest, Doug MacEllven, Washington County Assistant Veteran’s Services Officer and…

Published on: July 28, 2006

By Laura Orr

Legally Speaking: Jenn and I appeared with attorney Jim Hilborn on his TVCTV public access call-in program Legally Speaking (no web site yet). I know we should have…

Published on: May 18, 2006

By Laura Orr

…to Law Online and the Century of Lawmaking, will give you access to great stores of legal history and documents. They also recently added a Global Legal Monitor service….

Published on: October 7, 2005

By Laura Orr

…16 of those Oregon county law libraries have excellent basic and current law book collections and qualified law library staff with access to Lexis or Westlaw and a network of…

Published on: December 24, 2012

Your Congress and Tax Dollars at Work: 2012 CRS Report on Gun Legislation

By Laura Orr

…your member of Congress know what to think about complex issues? Members of Congress, and their staff members, have access to CRS Reports and many, many other sources of information, thanks…

Published on: August 6, 2014

Free Legal Research and Self-Help Resources in … St. Paul, Minnesota!

By Laura Orr

…with housing, small claims court or expunging their criminal records….” [Link to full story.] More stories about legal self-help initiatives can be found at the Access to Justice website….

Published on: August 26, 2014

Oregon Texting as Hearsay, (alleged) Pimp (“promote prostitution”) Case (Court of Appeals)

By Laura Orr

…Revised Statutes (Apologies for graceless blog post title, but if you want to find this case in the future, and don’t have access to a good digest or index of…

Published on: March 14, 2023

How Do I Find Help with Legal Research in Another State?

By Paula Simon

…on finding a lawyer, being an executor of the will, and if there was anything he could do to help remotely. Even though he was interested in Kentucky procedures, there…

Published on: June 6, 2023

Oregon State Bar Announces Free Legal Answers Website

By Paula Simon

…to sites that might help answer your questions. These sites could help bridge the Access to Justice gap that exists for low-income people that usually cannot afford attorney fees….