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When Cheating isn?t Cheating: Public Speaking Tricks

Posted on July 06, 2009
Just as there are some lotteries you don?t want to win (e.g. airplane crashes), there are also some cheats who aren?t really cheats - not the bad kind, at least.Ever wonder how good public speakers seem to talk without notes? While some really can, others have tricks...

GAO Reports on Reverse Mortgages

Posted on July 06, 2009
Another reminder that there are no quick fixes or free lunches in the world of finance, law, consumer protection, or living a long and healthy life:beSpacific alerts us to two new GAO reports on reverse mortgage consumer protection issues:1) Reverse Mortgages: Product Complexity and Consumer Protection Issues Underscore Need for Improved Controls over Counseling for Borrowers, GAO-09-606, June 29, 20092) Reverse Mortgages: Product Complexity and Consumer Protection Issues Underscore Need for Improved Controls over Counseling for Borrowers, GAO-09-812T, June 29, 2009

Blogger Ethical Code and Toni Morrison?s Trustworthiness

Posted on July 06, 2009
Journalists have ethical codes and so do librarians and lawyers. (Librarians also have a intellectual freedom codes, which might answer some of your question about why we can be so pigheaded).Do Bloggers Share an Ethical Code?, posted at attorney Donald Vanarelli?s blog, is worth reading:Excerpt: "According to a recent study published in the June 2009 edition of the New Media & Society journal entitled doing-the-right-thing-online-a-survey-of-bloggers-beliefs-and-practices, bloggers share a group of ethical principals...

Health Care (Medical) Advocates

Posted on July 03, 2009
A May 2009 It?s Only Money column at Oregonlive ran an interesting set of stories on health care advocates and on how to challenge health care bills. The article included lots of self-help tips and links.Health care advocates can, among other things, scrutinize your medical bills for errors the same way legal billing auditors do (though mostly for clients with the money to pay to have their bills scrutinized)...

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Bedsworth Tips his Hat (and his wit) to Jailbirds Who Fly the Coop

Posted on July 02, 2009
It?s a new month and the funniest judge in the country is still on the bench and online:Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns in July 2009 with his not to be missed Criminal Waste of Space column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:"A Ticket to Walk: Beds takes a look at prison administration"Previous Bedsworth tales of woe and law can be found at May it Please the Court.

Oregon Curfew Laws, Expungment Guides, and More

Posted on July 01, 2009
Summertime, and the living is - not so easy for parents of minors. See the Washington County (Oregon) Curfew Calendar.Check with your own city to find out its rules. For example, I typed the words Portland Oregon curfew laws into Google and got this link and this recent KATU story...

Oregon Attorney-Client Confidentiality: Privilege Can Survive Death

Posted on June 30, 2009
Oregon State Bar (OSB) Bulletin: June 2009: Duty of Confidentiality: Top 10 Myths, by Helen Hierschbiel, will be interesting for lawyer and client alike. It is another reminder to non-attorneys that you can?t learn the law from watching television shows or reading legal fiction, not that they aren?t fun and I highly recommend you keep enjoying both...

Cell Phone Law from the 2009 Oregon Legislature

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Oregon cell phone bill that became law: House Bill 2377 (or link to the enrolled bill from here): Relating to use of mobile communication device while driving; amending ORS 811.507When signed, it will show up at the Governor?s webpage and, when given a Chapter number, as an Oregon Law...

Pardons (and Pardon Law) in Oregon and Beyond

Posted on June 29, 2009
Trial Ad Notes has a post about a blog on Pardon Power.The practice of ?pardon law? is fairly specialized. Take a look at Pardon Power?s sidebar. Bloggers and researchers know how much work it takes to build a website like this!I have blogged before about getting a pardon in Oregon state court.

Traffic Photo Radar in Oregon

Posted on June 28, 2009
Public law librarians get a lot of questions about traffic tickets, especially photo radar. Here's a very brief primer on the subject, the gist of which is, Talk to a Lawyer. They are the real experts.Most of the "speed measuring device" statutes, which include radar, are in Chapter 810 of the ORS , but you?ll also want to look at ORS 811...

PDF Search Engines - and Beyond

Posted on June 26, 2009
If you are a simple soul, and only infrequently need more from your search engine than a blunt keyword search (Oregon legal research, for example), iLibrarian links to this post: 100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know.I especially liked the list of E-Book & PDF Search Engines...

How to Tell Your Oregon State or Federal Legislators What You Think

Posted on June 25, 2009
This is a Quick and Easy Guide. More complicated ones exist, but it just doesn?t have to be that hard - and this way you have no excuse for not speaking out:In a Nutshell (example of a 4-step script follows):1) Who IS your legislator? One quick way to find out is to use this Find Your Legislator tool...

Oregon 2009 House Bill 2343 (Change to Rape Law) and Think Out Loud

Posted on June 25, 2009
2009 HB 2343 (also from the Legislature?s webpage). (Note, an engrossed bill has not yet passed both Chambers; an enrolled bill has and awaits the Governor?s signature.)Compiling a legislative history and determining legislative intent means going beyond what legislators say themselves, to looking at what people say to legislators...

Bar Exam Prep on an iPhone? You Betcha.

Posted on June 24, 2009
The King County Law Library blog, KCLL Klues, has this post about Legal Applications for iPhones, and it includes a bar exam prep application, in addition to others on copyright law and student law. More to come, too, I expect. Who needs to go to the office anymore? Wowsers.

Special Education in Forest Grove, Oregon: U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on June 23, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court case on special education in Forest Grove, Oregon, is:Forest Grove School Dist. v. T.A., decided: 6/22/09, No. 08-305, which you can find at the Court?s opinion?s website, 2008 Term.

Oregon Pro Se Litigants and Attorneys Fees

Posted on June 23, 2009
Can a self-represented (pro se) litigant claim ?attorneys fees??For a discussion of the meaning of attorneys fees in the context of a pro se litigant?s public records lawsuit, I recommend you read the recently decided (June 17) Colby v. Gunson (A133979) (2009)...

Effective Dates of Oregon Legislation

Posted on June 23, 2009
From the Oregon Legislature Clerk of the House website:"In 1999, the Legislative Assembly adopted ORS 171.022, which reads, "Except as otherwise provided in the Act, an Act of the Legislative Assembly takes effect on January 1 of the year after passage of the Act...

Self-Help Oregon Divorce (Dissolution of Marriage) Forms and Instructions

Posted on June 23, 2009
Legal Aid Services of Oregon, among others, has created Oregon Forms Help:?This website is designed to help Oregon residents who wish to represent themselves in an uncontested divorce. Here you will find step-by-step instructions for filling out the Optional Statewide Family Law Forms prepared by the State of Oregon Judicial Branch...

Oregon Legislature: June 2009 Updates

Posted on June 23, 2009
This story in the Statesman Journal is accompanied by a list of the bills ?In the Pipeline,? ?Still Brewing,? and ?In Limbo or Dead?:Measure 57 key to ending the 2009 session, Issue keeps budgets of public-safety agencies in limbo, by Peter Wong ? Statesman Journal, June 21, 2009...

Religion as Defense in Child Death: Oregon Statute

Posted on June 22, 2009
Sleepy radio listeners have long muttered ?WHAT hour?? at radio announcers who say, ?it is 10 minutes past the hour.? (Would it be so hard to say, it is 10 minutes past 7 a.m. in San Francisco? Public radio listeners are smart enough to figure out what time it is then in Indianapolis...

Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference in Portland - August 2009

Posted on June 19, 2009
From the Law Writing Prof Blog:Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference in Portland - August 28-29, 2009?Lewis & Clark Law School and the University of Oregon School of Law are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of the 2009 Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference...

Elisor, Desuetude, Misprision: huh?

Posted on June 19, 2009
As is the case for any vocation or avocation, the law is filled with Words that make us go huh! in the night (but not with this huh and surely not to be confused with d?oh, unless you use the Word incorrectly while speaking to a judge in a crowded courtroom)...

Free Help (and Money) at the Beaverton (or Your) Public Library

Posted on June 18, 2009
If you remember that Abbie Hoffman?s Steal This Book was about how to get Free Stuff, and stuff for free (beg, borrow, and steal), this blog post from the Beaverton (Oregon) City Library is better, much better - and you?ll stay on the side of the angels...

Right to Honest Services: 18 USC 1346

Posted on June 18, 2009
I just saw that the print edition of the National Law Journal has a cover story about 18 USC 1346:DOJ may rein in use of 'honest services' statute: Fraud statute up for review was key to many convictions, by Lynne Marek, June 15, 2009I can write 18 USC 1346 without even looking at the article...

SALC Race for Justice in Portland: Battle of the Law Firms!

Posted on June 17, 2009
This is Race for Justice weekend (Saturday, June 20, 2009), to raise money for the St. Andrew Legal Clinic (SALC), which serves low-income Oregonians in family law matters.The Race for Justice really is a challenge! It?s a battle of Oregon law firms:1) Bronze Sneaker Traveling Trophy!2) Prevailing Parties!3) The Markowitz Challenge: Bragging rights are on the line!4) The Coulter Cup Family Law Challenge!And more!?Making a Difference: SALC helps bridge the gap for families who do not qualify for Legal Aid and can not afford to hire a private attorney...

Oregon Marriage Licenses and other Vital Records (with a side of baby names)

Posted on June 16, 2009
If you get your marriage license in one Oregon county and get married in another, where can you get a certified copy of your marriage license 30 years later?This is a slightly different question from the one I answered a little while ago: How do I find out if someone in Oregon or Washington is married? But the research is similar - and the following information also applies to Domestic Partnership records...

Oregon Justice Courts (and Justices of the Peace)

Posted on June 16, 2009
Cutting public sector budgets is a complex enterprise. Sometime cutting $$ out of a budget means cutting 2, 3, or 20 times the original $$ cut, e.g. when you cut a budget item and lose the matching funds or when you cut ?officers of the state? positions (e...

Oregon Council on Civil Rights

Posted on June 16, 2009
The first meeting of the Oregon Council on Civil Rights is in July 2009:The mission of the OCCR is:� To study and monitor the causes, effects and solutions of unlawful discrimination in Oregon;� To consider legislative and agency proposals and actions;� To foster communication, goodwill, cooperation and conciliation among groups interested in civil rights across the state, and between these groups and the state; and� To advise the commissioner, and other interested state agencies or officials, on policies and procedures related to the education and enforcement of civil rights...

Update to ?Leaving Children Home Alone in Oregon?

Posted on June 15, 2009
In addition to my new Kids Home Alone in Oregon legal research guide and my rather lengthy previous post, from January 13, 2009, I add these:1) A corrected link to the ?What is the legal age for leaving a child home alone?? information at the Clackamas County Juvenile Department FAQ...

Medea in Oregon: Maternal Filicide

Posted on June 15, 2009
If recent heartbreaking events in Portland, Oregon haven?t sent those of literary or legal mind to the library or online to refresh your memory of the story of Medea (and other filicide tragedies), then you haven?t been paying attention:1) Libraries will have multiple versions of the original tale...

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