…they provide a good foundation for further research if needed. They also explain legal language and terms so that when using more technical resources, it makes those more understandable. Nolo…
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Building a Better (or at least a free) Citator through Crowdsourcing
“…. The newly launched WeCite Project, co-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and the free legal research platform Casetext, aims to bring the win-win power of crowdsourcing…
Oregon Lawyers Celebrate Punctuation Day (with a side of interrogatories)
least): Thank you to Suzanne Rowe, the University of Oregon Law School Director of Legal Research and Writing and author of the book(s), “Oregon Legal Research,”…
Article: “Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law,” Peter W. Martin
I blog periodically about how legal information is not yet all online and the sad state of affairs it is for finding free, official, and authenticated legal…
Researching U.S. and Oregon Administrative Laws: Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR)
Here’s a round-up of our Administrative Law research resources: Library of Congress research guide: How to Trace Federal Regulations How to Find an Oregon Administrative Rule History Where to…
Free Online Pre-nuptial Agreement for Pets (Pet Nup) (UK law!)
…legal research, recommend or assist in the preparation of forms, or advise patrons regarding their legal rights. They may, however, assist patrons in locating materials or links that would aid…
Preventing Link Rot: Lawyer and Librarian Friend Perma cc Wins Webby Award
From ABA News: “Site aiming to prevent ‘link rot’ for legal researchers wins 2015 Webby,” by Molly McDonough, 4/27/15: Excerpt: “A service that enables courts and researchers to make…
“Fully Loaded: How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business” (Mother Jones)
“Fully Loaded: How America’s 10 biggest gunmakers do business,” by Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones, June 2016 Do you want to do more research? Sample searches: see note below about…
How to Find a Law Review Article: Let me count the ways
…full-service legal research database, and a research strategy, to perform a full legal literature subject search for magazine, journal, law review, newsletter, and newspaper articles.) 1) Use your Internet search…
Legislative History
…know the history of. In this case, the woman already knew the exact statute. I got her onto one of our legal databases (there are many options out there, but…
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