An excellent, and fast, tutorial on free and low cost legal research tools is available from the Duke University law librarians: The Unexploded Cow’s Guide to Legal Research My…
Foreign and international law librarians know things we mere mortals don’t know (yet): “FALQs: Cuban Legal System January 27, 2015 by Kelly Buchanan The following is a guest…
There are many free, publicly accessible, legal research databases in Oregon County Law Libraries. We update the Oregon County Law Libraries Legal Research Databases directory at least twice a…
…Most legal dictionaries will define the word “official.” I like the definition of “official” in the “Legal Research Dictionary: from Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, Second Edition,” by Elyse H….
Symposium: 404/File Not Found: Link Rot, Legal Citation and Projects to Preserve Precedent: “The Web is fluid and mutable, and this is a “feature” rather than a “bug”. But…
This class for Landlords only: Landlord Study Hall 2009 Previous Oregon Legal Research blog posts about free Oregon legal information, here and here and here. (And for those of…
You may or may not use a serial comma wherever (or nowhere) else you want, but woe to the person who leaves the serial comma out of legal documents,…
Attorneys know about legal notices, service by publication, or other publication requirements, but what about us normal people?! What are we to do? Here is a little guidance,…
News from the Oregon State Law Librarian: “In addition to the EBSCO Legal Information Reference Center, all Oregon residents have access to Fastcase. Please click on https://apps.fastcase.com/Research/Public/Oregon/login.aspx and register…
…database and literature searching to their members. This is not a complete list! There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of indexes to legal and non-legal literature (and I use…
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