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Oregon Probate Mediation, Duty to Pay Debts, & Business Property Credit Update

Posted on July 20, 2008
The latest (Vol. XXV, No. 3, July 2008) issue of the newsletter from the Estate Planning and Administration section of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) includes the following articles:1) Mediation of Probate and Protective Matters, by Joshua Kadish.2) Duty to Pay Debts?, by Conrad G...

Proposed Regulation of Heir Search Firms in Oregon

Posted on July 20, 2008
In the latest issue (Vol. XXV, No. 3, July 2008) of the newsletter from the Estate Planning and Administration section of the Oregon State Bar (OSB) reports on this story in its ?Looking Ahead: Legislative Proposals for 2009? section:?Proposed Limits on Fees Allowed in Probate to Heir Search Firms: This proposal regulates the activities of heir search firms...

Seminarian Collection Agents for Libraries? Holy Cow!

Posted on July 20, 2008
Via Library Link of the Day, we read this:Overdue help for the other lending crisis: Libraries hire a firm (and its seminarians) to fight six-figure losses, July 13, 2008, by Jeff Gammage, Inquirer Staff WriterExcerpts:?The Bucks County library system wants its stuff back...

Building Codes in Oregon: An Update

Posted on July 20, 2008
I last posted here about researching Oregon Building Codes and a couple of updates are in order:1) You can subscribe to email BCD News for the Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services, Building Codes Division. Visit their homepage and check out their online services...

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Legal Research Database Survey: LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Beyond

Posted on July 18, 2008
This survey, from the Stanford Law School Robert Crown Law Library, is for the Serious Minded Legal Research Service User (and the one who also monitors The Budget):Law Librarians and LexisNexis vs. Westlaw, June 2008.

Guides to Oregon Legislative History

Posted on July 18, 2008
(Conferences (past and future) are as bad for blogging habits as are vacations, but I, and my readers, soldier on :-)This week, we?ve been getting quite a few Legislative History questions, from hither and yon, about new and old statutes. So, in the interest of those who would like a few hints on where to begin (and end), here are links to a few guides:1) A quick and easy guide, from Oregon Dept of Admin Services (not pretty or well-formatted, but this guide does the trick without unnecessary bells and whistles)...

Law Librarians, Hollywood and Portland (with a side of lawyers)

Posted on July 09, 2008
1) Lest you think lawyers and law librarians don?t have no fun, take a look at these:2) Hollywood Librarians (the movie) coming to Portland (Oregon).3) Thousands of Law Librarians (!) coming to Portland, July 12-15th, 2008.4) At f/k/a, July 6th (better late than never): Let?s celebrate kissing and chocolate5) Bedsworth, of course...

Juvenile Curfews (Oregon)

Posted on July 09, 2008
I bet you thought curfews were from the old days (or war-torn countries). Or of the classic corfu/curfew mixup sort ("Curfew will not ring tonight!") from here).But these are real curfews ? for real children (and parents)!Here (scroll down to 3rd article) is a chart showing juvenile curfews in Washington County (Oregon)...

Lost Laptops: Security, Insecurity, Privacy, Foolishness

Posted on July 09, 2008
From beSpacific: Study: Business travelers lose more than 12,000 laptops per week in U.S. airports. Report: Airport InsecurityBut where do missing laptops go? Police? TSA? Underworld? The same place missing bicycles and socks go?

Legal Publisher Vendors in Town (Portland, OR)

Posted on July 08, 2008
While the law librarians are in town (Portland, Oregon) for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting in Portland, July 12th to July 15th, anyone may explore the Exhibit Hall for no charge.The Exhibit Hall (at the Oregon Convention Center (OCC)): and here is a list of the vendors (with floor plan)...

Twitter is So Yesterday?

Posted on July 08, 2008
What I learned today: The Twitter ExodusWhat can you learn from this? For starters, don?t worry if you miss the Twitter train; another one will be along soon.

U.S. Supreme Court: The ?Other? Gun Case

Posted on July 07, 2008
For those who read Susan Nielsen?s column, The Other Gun Ruling, in the Sunday, July 06, 2008, Oregonian, and want to read the full case from the U.S. Supreme Court, the opinion is here, Giles v. California (docket number: 07-6053, decided June 25, 2008)...

DWP: Cell Phones, Driving, and Oregon

Posted on July 03, 2008
Local news reports make a big(ish) deal out of the fact that Oregon is the only hold out in the No Hand Held Cell Phones on the Left Coast race, with both California and Washington now signing onto similar laws.For a more nuanced view of the issue, though not why Oregon is a holdout (and we all have our hypotheses), visit California?s Make Believe Car Phone Safety Law at f/k/a for some commentary, links, and poetry.

Oregon Legal Forms: the pyramid

Posted on July 03, 2008
The most frequently asked question, especially from non-attorneys, in public law libraries is,?do you have a form called x (or that will do y)??The law library response depends on the form, the relative sophistication and experience of the person asking the question, the issue (substantive or procedural),and the jurisdiction...

All a Twitter for Librarians

Posted on July 02, 2008
Twitter for Librarians (and others who think like librarians :-), via Neat New Stuff on the Web.

Is never good for you? Online scheduling for busy, far-flung, people

Posted on July 02, 2008
I?m not in her techie league, but I do like looking in on what Nicole is doing at What I learned today. Today the one that tickled me was When is good. It seems worth a whirl (if we weren't already spending half our time trying to schedule meetings, meals, etc...

The Paperless Lawyer is a Mobile Lawyer

Posted on July 01, 2008
(You can see I'm clearing out my blog post rough drafts!)See Jim Calloway?s post: Security Issues of Carrying Digital DocumentsI also really like this, because going paperless is as much a conceptual adjustment as a business model one: A mobile lawyer is a paperless lawyer?Whenever I talk to lawyers about switching to a digital workflow system I always get the same question: what's the best way to switch? The answer: all at once...

Oregon Non-Profits and Volunteer Legal and Self-help Resources

Posted on July 01, 2008
Oregon has excellent resources for non-profits and volunteers, whether you run one, serve on a board, want to work at one, or want to start one:1) Connectipedia (see 6/17/08 Oregonian article, by Steve Woodward: Nonprofits share the knowledge)2) TACS: they write the Oregon non-profit source book, without which we would all flail about helplessly, with or without profit...

Handbags and Why Do They (Big Law Associates) Hate Us (Big Law)?

Posted on July 01, 2008
If you ever thought working for Big Bucks in Big Law was Nirvana, think again:From Fastcase blog: Legal Tabloids Creating Headaches for Firms??Blogs have democratized the means of production for publishers, leading to a fast proliferation of new media...

Questions People Ask Public Law Librarians: Round Four

Posted on July 01, 2008
It's Public Law Library Reference-Question Roundup time again:These are some of the questions we are asked by our library patrons, via email, telephone, and in-person. We show people how to research their questions and refer them to print and online resources and in virtually all situations encourage non-attorneys to speak to an attorney or other specialist (e...

Oregon Timber and Property Taxes: another view, or two, or three, ?.

Posted on July 01, 2008
One of my library patrons expressed some curiosity about the relative property tax rates of different Oregon counties (and cities). This was prompted by reading the ?timber money? article in Sunday?s Oregonian, where a resident of Grants Pass/Josephine County was quoted as saying that local residents pay a property tax rate of $...

Bedworth is Back on a Magical Mystery, uh, Tour

Posted on July 01, 2008
A new Bedsworth at A Criminal Waste of Space to mark the day ? July First! And it is, of course, almost the funniest thing you?ll ever read by an appellate court judge.(I?ll not say anything more or will get into very hot water. But he does mention law librarians, which ought to merit a Yeah!, but will get more of a snerck (you know what kind of sound that is - the ones librarians everywhere contain valiantly (though not forever) when we've just been asked the Question of the Week at the reference desk...

What is SEO? Why, it?s Search Engine Optimization.

Posted on June 30, 2008
See Jim Calloway?s links, from his post: Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines. Excerpt:?You finally got your law firm Web site online and waited for the new clients to come rolling in. But for some reason it just didn't happen that way...

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright: Questions Asked and Not Asked

Posted on June 30, 2008
See also, Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer, by James Grimmelmann, New York Law SchoolSee also: State of Oregon backs off claim that its law is copyrighted(I last blogged about this here.)

Virtual Assistants (VAs) in the Legal World

Posted on June 30, 2008
This post is as much for people who NEED VA?s as for those who want to BE VA?s.MyShingle has an update post on using Virtual Assistants. It links also to this virtual assistant guide.

Oregon Ballot Measure 53: Civil Forfeiture: Final Recount

Posted on June 30, 2008
Final recount results are in, here.Of course, there is also this:Official Count from the Oregon Secretary of State?s election web page (which hasn?t been updated since the 11th, or so it says ? it?s a mystery).Last posted about here, here, and hereAnd don?t forget about the Ballot Measure Archive Project, which I blogged about here...

Is an Oregon Constitutional Convention in your future?

Posted on June 25, 2008
I blogged about this some time ago, but maybe, maybe, ?. See 6/25/08, Willamette Week Murmurs story:?Get me rewrite: Since Oregon?s founders wrote the state Constitution in 1857, much has changed. For instance, Article II, section 9, which disqualifies from public office ?every person who shall give, or accept a challenge to fight a duel,? might need tweaking (Randy Leonard might be an exception)...

White Space, Public Space, and Air and Space

Posted on June 24, 2008
When technology, public access, and control issues surface ? can lawyers be far behind?White Space Devices & The Battle Over Innovation: Public Access vs. Industry Control of the Airwaves, By Sascha Meinrath, New America Foundation, June 2008Via beSpacific.

Sex Offender Laws

Posted on June 24, 2008
Most headline news stories would benefit from better analysis (not to mention better research) than they are generally given by journalists in 500-1,000 (or even 5,000) word articles and sex offender registration stories are at the top of that list.For another ?view of the cathedral?, (with apologies to Guido Calabresi) on this difficult subject, see f/k/a, who has been blogging thoughtfully on this subject for quite a while now.

A Peacock (Named Bismarck) and the Law

Posted on June 24, 2008
A peacock moved into my and my neighbors? adjoining yards (in Mt. Tabor) a couple of weeks ago and I?ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a legal research or law library angle on the situation.(The fact that neighbor kids have named it Bismarck doesn?t help, except for the laugh factor...

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