This isn’t from Oregon, but concerns legal research. A paralegal in Muncie Indiana, who is accused of drug charges, has been granted access LexisNexis to prepare his defense. It…
Excerpt from the Law Librarian blog post: “LawCrossing features the largest collection of active legal jobs in the world, including more than 70,000 positions at top law firms,…
Lawyers Set to Argue New Legal Theory in Pet-Poisoning Cases, from Law.com (article by Lynne Marek in The National Law Journal, April 10, 2007) “Class action litigators and animal…
From the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian: We came across this Oregon Department Human Services website, with a variety of legal links on the following topics: 1) Planning2) Power…
These look like interesting jobs: Visit the Lewis & Clark Human Resources website for information about these positions (and others): “Faculty Legal Assistant — Provides advanced…
I looked at my original blog Oregon Legal Research (OLR) description (aka header) (unchanged since I started blogging in October 2005) and gave a small shudder. I then read…
…Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System: 2010 TED Video of Philip Howard’s Presentation Visit TED on a rainy, snowy, sunny, icy, warm, hot, cold, or just plain any…
This is an interesting story: Law Professors Seek Injunction over ‘Sham’ Treatise Supplement, by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, April 16, 2009. Excerpt: “An ugly dispute has erupted…
…these phrases and many more in the new book “Lawtalk: the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions,” by James E. Clapp, Elizabeth G. Thornburg, Marc Galanter, and Fred R. Shapiro….
“Gallagher blogs” brings us “A Tour of Eight Famous Cases,” highlighting the new book: “Is Eating People Wrong: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World”…
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