Stay tuned for changes to our Oregon Legal Research (OLR) website and blog management team. Nothing but good times ahead!
Succession:
I am moving on from owning and managing the Oregon Legal Research (OLR) domains, website, and blog. The current plan is to transfer OLR ownership, over the next few months, to the Washington County Law Library (WCLL).
Scroll down if you want to skip this intro and go right to the book’s bibliographic info.
The first article I wrote as a new law librarian (I’m now retired!) was on the difference between the meaning of “primary source” when researching history and the meaning of “primary source” when researching the law. (Yes, there is overlap, but it’s important to understand the distinction so you don’t confuse your readers or your students.)
Then as now, the practice of law librarianship was the practice of Learning New Things Every Day. (That is also why I started this Oregon Legal Research blog when I moved to Oregon, after more than a decade teaching and learning about federal law resources. I could call this blog, What I Learned Today About Oregon Legal Research, but brevity is king and queen in the blogger-space – at least it’s aspirational, ahem.)
From LawSites: New Blog Serves as Training Hub for Minnesota Judges, Trial Lawyers
And, see links to this at the bottom of the blog post:
“For more examples of judges who blog, see my [Bob Ambrogi’s] earlier posts:
Background:
1) OSB Bar Bulletin April 2012 article, by Janine Robben, “How Oregon’s Blogging Defamiation Case Attracted National Attention”
2) Previous OLR blog post: When is blogging defamation, extortion, or free speech?
News from Oregon Legal Research Central:
1) We now have a Tag Cloud at the blog (right side, scroll down). Let me know if it works for you or if there is another way you like to find subject-specific blog posts, which leads to the second change ….
2) We’ve also changed the Comment functionality so people can Comment without having to log in. Yay! I hadn’t realized that logging in was necessary and once I found out I went to our fab-host, Justia, to fix the problem. They did so promptly! (And thank you also to our reader who emailed us directly when she realized the log-in/privacy problem – and the disincentive to Commenting it presented.)
I love these kinds of blawger stories.
The hypothesis may also be supported by the experience of lawyers who post a lot of information on their websites and, contrary to popular belief that it is bad to “give it away free,” have found that it draws traffic to their websites and can attract clients.
However, woe to the attorney who blogs badly.
If you missed the April 26, 2013, “A Quick Survey of Blogs Written by Judges” post by Robert Ambrogi at LawSites, it’s not too late.
You have until December 21st, 2012, to vote for your favorite ABA Blawg 100 blogs.
Even if you don’t want to vote, the list is a great way to sample the current crop of blawgs to see what works for you and your practice (and sometimes your life). And, you might get some ideas for a blog of your own, an excellent way to get it out of your system (whatever “it” may be).
(No, our little niche blawg is not on the list, but the ones you will see on the list are super and of interest across borders – hmmm, Blawgs without Boarders are the best ones to make the cut :-)
Another blog-media lawsuit:
“Beaverton Grace Bible Church v. Smith,” from the Citizen Media Law Project, July 10, 2012, includes a copy of the complaint and other court documents.
See also:
You can read Judge Luster’s opinion at the Kootenai County, Idaho, District Court Opinions website:
Tina Jacobson v. Doe, CV-12-3098 (7/10/12) (if direct link does not work, use the website link above)
Selected news stories:
Oregon Legal Research Blog