Oregon Legal Research BlogFrom the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian: The flurry of debt collector news stories this past week leads me to post a few of the places to start your…
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Oregon Debt Collection Woes and Rogues
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U.S. Courts of Appeals (Circuit Courts) Opinions Online
…place to begin when researching federal court practice and procedure, but for cases, you need to do a little detective work if you want to use a free database. The…
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How to Blog in a Dog-eat-Dog World: Blogging Lesson Plans
proof that we too have an important place in the blogging world. One CAN blog for fun and for work (see also my post on blorking). My previous posts on…
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An Oregon Lawyer Writes About Blogging
I like this blurb (it’s not a blog post, an essay, or your typical course description – but it works!) by David Rossmiller that sets the scene for his…
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A Free Web 2.0 Technology Course for Law Librarians
who have to wear 23 hats, work 45+ hours a week, and are accountable to elected officials, judges, bar associations, and the public. (The lawyers are the nicest and least…
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Things To Do with Unwanted Books
Here, Creative Uses for Old Books (thanks, Bonnie!), are some great ideas for things to do with used books. (I’m not sure they would work with that duplicate…
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Privatization of Access to Taxpayer-Funded Government Documents Continues
so far as to boast that you should purchase this exclusive “product” from West because the GAO law librarians (public employees!) have done all the work for you! ….”…
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Consumer Reports Magazine, Free, Full Text, Online, From Your Desktop
(If you don’t have a WCCLS public library card, ask how to do this search at your own public library. For example, you can also find this…
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Thinking about Becoming a Lawyer (but not one of these two in Portland)?
…via f/k/a. 🙂 (Note about finding old news stories: If a link to a news story doesn’t work, it may be that the news source does not maintain free archives…
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“Pterodactyl Implications” for Lawyers: When All Else Fails
I thought that was pretty great, and a friend and I decided that it would become our one word answer as well, to be produced when nothing else would work….