Oregon Legal Research BlogFor you non-lawyers out there, yes this sometimes happens. Lawyers really do learn useful things in law school and know things mere mortals don’t! (But not everything, so…
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Federal Law Preempts Oregon Law
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Public Law Librarians Consulted by Supreme Court Nominee on Eve of Judiciary Committee Hearings
…(judicial hearing) handlers are mere amateurs when compared to public law librarians who are masters at Answering a Question without Answering the Question. This is a skill we practice every…
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Multnomah County Circuit Court 2014 Report on the Multnomah Law Library
You can read the Multnomah Law Library Report at the PSU CPS website: “This report reviews the current operations of the Multnomah Law Library and makes recommendations, based on…
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Book: A Layperson’s Guide to Legal Research and Self-Help Law Books
“A Layperson’s Guide to Legal Research and Self-Help Law Books,” by Kendall Svengalis (author and publisher of the extraordinary and invaluable “Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual,” which…
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New Legal Research Guide – Consumer Law
The Washington County Law Library has a new legal research guide on consumer law. You can find all of the library’s legal research guides on the Subject Guides page…
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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…
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“A Cure Worse than the Disease? Oregon’s New Social Media Law”
The May 2014 OSB Bulletin has this article: “A Cure Worse than the Disease? Oregon’s New Social Media Law,” by Dan Webb Howard. Excerpt: “…. A Law of Unintended…
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Free Law Books Online: Findlaw and Nolo
If there is a particular book you want and you know its title, you can check library catalogs or run a web search or ask a law librarian (who…
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“Incorporating Animal Law into Private Practice”
Holly Anne Gibbons, an Oregon lawyer, has written a practical article (Introduction) on “Incorporating Animal Law into Private Practice,” in the Lewis & Clark Law School journal, Animal Law…
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New legal research guide – Animal law
In the interesting lawsuit news department, the San Jose Mercury News recently reported that a man has sued the California Department of Fish and Game after being attached by…