…your research until the last minute. Leave enough time to handle any problems that might arise. In our example, the patron assumes that there is a fill-in-the-blank form that they…
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Professional, and Ethical, Duty to Perform Adequate Legal Research
If you thought legal research skills were icing on the cake, think again: Lawyers have an ethical duty to perform adequate legal research. (And, clients might expect a…
Death by Failure to Research: Could You Pass a Legal Research Competency Test?
David Lankes tells a familiar “Death by Failure to Research” story in his free eBook, “Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today’s Complex World”: “…. In 2001 Ellen Roche,…
New Multnomah Law Library Website: Services, Databases, Catalog and More
hours have returned, remote and in-library database access is expanding, and the online catalog will earn its keep as a time-saver. And don’t forget the Oregon legal research databases I…
Keep Up With the U.S. Supreme Court and Oregon Appellate Courts
It’s that time of year again to sign up or reset your profile with the Willamette Law Online service from Willamette University College of Law Find links to these…
Get What You Paid For: “Free” Online Research Databases
Via Library Link of the Day, an interesting story: “Push for Open Access to Research.” It’s a small world; read all about it. A corollary to this Get What…
Online legal research for criminal defendants
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…
Verdict $5.2 million: Law Professor vs Legal Publisher (with a side of free legal research and Fastcase)
…to Begin Weekly Release of all Federal and State Appellate Cases” 4) The more interesting side of this “free” view of the online legal research world is this 12/19/10 Law…
More Free and Low-Cost Legal Research Services
Public.Resource.Org with 1.8 million pages of federal case law. This is a marked departure for the online legal research industry, which traditionally has charged expensive subscription fees to access…
Oregon’s Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA): 2013 HB 2944
Are the state and federal laws you find online authenticated and permanently preserved? Oregon’s Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (popularly known as UELMA) is moving through the 2013 Legislative…
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