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Lawyer Billing, Agita, and the Absence of A [Year?s] Best Legal Writing Compilation

Posted on February 12, 2009
This recent post at f/k/a will take you to previous ones on lawyer billing, all worth reading. It will also take you to a definition of agita, a condition not unknown to those of us who don?t get a chance to get it all out of our systems (though blogging does help)...

Missing Bodies and Death Declarations (with a side of road kill and zombie debt - oh my!)

Posted on February 08, 2009
How do you declare someone dead when there is no body?I should probably save this for a Day of the Dead post, but, appearances notwithstanding, I?m blogging about Legal Research and the Living so ... full speed ahead. (Previous posts about road kill & zombie debt...

Hyperlinking, Newspapers Disappoint Us, and the Oregon National Guard

Posted on February 06, 2009
It won?t be the first time (nor the last) that I connect dots in a way that makes your eyes cross, but work with me here:(First, here is some comic relief from Courtoons (thanks to Jim Calloway for the lead!).Now, full speed ahead:Once upon a time (pre-web days), one of my favorite ways to teach legal research, especially administrative and legislative research, was to hand out a copy of a newspaper article (on a current hot topic) where reporters would cite to a dozen or more government documents...

Peanut Recall Includes ?Organic? Items

Posted on February 06, 2009
Woe unto you (and salmonella is definitely a woe) if you're not checking this list regularly. New recalled products are added daily:Link here for the FDA?s database of peanut contaminated products.Previous posts here and here.

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What Happens When Your Oregon Lawyer Dies?

Posted on February 06, 2009
First things first: If your lawyer dies, call his/her law firm. If your lawyer dies and the law firm has died too (e.g. if the lawyer was a solo practitioner) and you want to know what happened to your case files, if the law firm no longer exists, or any other similar scenario occurs ? call the Oregon State Bar (OSB): 503-684-3763...

Oregon Probate Law: Unsecured Creditors, Non-probate Property, and Appealability

Posted on February 06, 2009
?Rights of an Unsecured Creditor to Recover from a Decedent?s Nonprobate Property,? by Daniel C. Re and Hurley Re, in the January 2009 issue of the OSB Estate Planning and Administration section newsletter (previous issues online).Another article in the same issue: ?Appealability of Decisions in Probate and Trust Proceedings,? by Philip N...

Oregon and Electronically Stored Information

Posted on February 05, 2009
Willamette Law Review (Winter 2008, vol. 45, no. 2) has this article: ?A Last Vestige of Oregon?s Wild West: Oregon?s Lawless Approach to Electronically Stored Information," by Leroy J. Tornquist & Christine R. Olson.(This article is not yet at the Willamette Law Review website, but will be, eventually...

Measure 37 and 49 Commentary

Posted on February 05, 2009
Researching legislative history can sometimes require more than plowing through dusty hearing transcripts. Guides to legislative history and intent always suggest searching the secondary literature, e.g. newspaper and journal articles that are written before the legislation is passed, shortly thereafter, and reflective articles long after the law has been enacted:Willamette Law Review (Winter 2008, vol...

U.S. Senator Reid and Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown

Posted on February 04, 2009
If you think federalism means that in the United States the federal government operates independently of state government, or vice versa, see this blog post for an interesting civics lesson:Isaac Laquedem?s take: Harry Reid gives Kate Brown an unexpected power over the United States Senate

Keeping Up With the Judiciary in Oregon: Willamette Law Online

Posted on February 04, 2009
For many of us, keeping on top of federal case law is a lower priority than tracking changes to our state?s laws. But we still like, and need, to stay in the loop, especially since these cases affect our day-to-day lives as much as our own state laws do: family law, criminal procedure, employement law, etc...

Oregon Attorneys Gone Wild: Free Legal Information and Advice

Posted on February 02, 2009
Oregon, and especially the Portland-metro area, is awash in lawyers talking about the law to all and sundry - for no charge. (You don?t even have to buy them lunch - how much better than that can it get?)There are pedestrian and bicycle legal clinics, bankruptcy clinics, small business legal clinics, homebuyer clinics, patent law programs (e...

Does Your Lawyer Know What Metadata Is?

Posted on February 02, 2009
I hear far too many lawyers say, ?I don?t understand technology. I do just fine with the telephone and my legal assistant.? This is a far more dangerous situation than ?I don?t need no stinkin? email.?As a public librarian, I?m in favor of self-help and I know my way around a law library, but I?m also smart enough to know when to hire lawyers (and doctors)...

Justice Bedsworth Gets Education: Via Planet Mercury and the Donner Pass

Posted on February 02, 2009
Justice Bedsworth welcomes you to February 2009, via the heat of August 2008 (LOL!):MCLEmentary: ?Beds has to forego a forgettable knowledge seminar.?, by Justice William W. Bedsworth:Excerpt: ?The National Judicial College is located in Reno, Nevada...

Free Legal Information and Education in Oregon

Posted on February 01, 2009
Oregon and especially the Portland-metro area is awash in lawyers talking about the law to all and sundry - for no charge. There are pedestrian and bicycle legal clinics, bankruptcy clinics, small business legal clinics, homebuyer clinics, patent law programs (e...

Sailboats Can Be "Floating Homes" in Oregon

Posted on January 30, 2009
The OSB Real Estate and Land Use Digest, vol. 30, no. 5, December 2008) discusses Ramsum v. Woldridge, 222 Or App 109, 192 P.3d 851 (2008):Excerpt from the case:"EDMONDS, P. J.Defendants lived on their sailboats at Eagle's Cove Marina, where they rented moorage slips from plaintiff, the owner of Eagle's Cove...

More Stunning Peanut Recall News

Posted on January 29, 2009
More news today on the peanut recall front, from the Washington Post, in a rather stunning announcement:Every Peanut Product From Ga. Plant Recalled: FDA: Toss Out Anything Made in 2007-08By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, January 29, 2009; Page A01Excerpt: ?In one of the largest food recalls in history, the Food and Drug Administration asked retailers, manufacturers and consumers yesterday to throw out every product made in the past two years from peanuts processed by a Georgia plant at the heart of a deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness?...

What Peanut Paste (butter) Recall?

Posted on January 29, 2009
I still run into people (parents! yikes!) who say,?what peanut paste (or butter) recall?? Duh.** FDA website and here and here.** CDC website and here and here.Maybe we still need paper boys (and girls) running through the streets shouting out headlines: PEANUT PASTE RECALL! READ ALL ABOUT IT! DON?T EAT YOUR PEANUT PASTE!In any event, don?t eat products with peanut paste in them without doing a little homework...

Metro (Oregon) Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol

Posted on January 29, 2009
For your inner-detective/sleuth ... bet you didn't know this could be a career - and maybe a darned interesting one for some!Metro?s Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol?Metro's RID Patrol tackles the problem of illegal dumping in multiple ways: cleaning up dump sites, investigating evidence found at the dump sites, issuing citations to the guilty parties, investigating haulers that are illegally dumping and working with communities that need education and help to reduce dumping in their neighborhood...

Obama?s ?Difficult Tasks? and Lawyers Who Need Web Sites

Posted on January 29, 2009
As President Obama has said, ?... there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.? (Inaugural Address, 1/20/09) ...My view (below) is from the perspective of a law librarian and of someone who hires lawyers, so think of me as a Super (and maybe very annoying) Client, but who also talks to hundreds of people who are trying to find the right lawyer:Two things lawyers who want to make a living (as lawyers) should never say, but that I hear said every day:1) ?I don?t have an email address...

Popular Mechanics and the Law (worst case scenarios, limousines, and plane crashes)

Posted on January 23, 2009
I?m thinking about adding Popular Mechanics website to my list of places to visit weekly.Interesting, and well written, stuff. Take a look:1) Worst Case Scenarios2) Presidential limousines, history of3) Sully?s (US Air plane) landing

Libraries, Peace Processes, and Equal Access

Posted on January 23, 2009
If you know anything at all about Columbia, this article will be a fascinating counterpoint:Libraries sow urban peace in Colombia, by Andrea Dom�nguez 14/01/2009Excerpts: ?According to Prada, Bogot� libraries have become an important tool for social equality, they are open to all regardless of their social, economic or cultural background...

Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #14 (Article IV, Legislative Department, Sections 2-6)

Posted on January 23, 2009
Links to Previous Bites can be found here at, "Oregon Consitution in Small Bites: So Far"Today: Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #14 (Article IV, Legislative Department, Sections 2-6, copied from this version at the Oregon Legislature's website)ARTICLE IVLEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT? (previous sections found in this Small Bite)2...

Does Your Car Repair Shop Give You an Estimate Before Making Repairs?

Posted on January 23, 2009
It should and you can always refuse to do business with them if they don?t (and put it in writing, please). But that?s too easy. There needs to be legislation requiring them to do this!For a public policy wonk there are few things more fun than watching the Bills Go By...

WHO Surgical Checklist: This SOP May Save Lives and Lawsuits

Posted on January 22, 2009
The stories (e.g. here and here) we?ve been reading recently about the surgical checklist from the World Health Organization (their Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge) have some of us wondering why all surgical teams aren?t required to use them.Even under the extreme emergency of ?birds in engines,? the pilots of that plane that landed in the Hudson pulled out their own checklist...

Project Gutenberg, UGC, and Librarians

Posted on January 21, 2009
If you?ve ever wanted to contribute to Project Gutenberg, this article will be helpful (and fun to read if you like creating UGC (user generated content)):U-Content: Project Gutenberg, Me, and You, by Nicholas TomaiuoloAnd it includes an interview with Michael Hart, one of the original open sourcers (or maybe I should say sorcerers, since it is really is magic)...

50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic

Posted on January 16, 2009
From iLibrarian, link to the 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic story.

Credit Freezes and Credit Reports in Oregon

Posted on January 16, 2009
I was reading the September 2008 Consumer Reports and their story, "ID Leaks: A Surprising Source is Your Government at Work," reminded me that I wanted to post about their Consumer?s Union ?How to Protect Yourself? guide, their Financial Privacy Now website...

When Do I Have to Vacate My House After the Oregon Foreclosure Auction?

Posted on January 14, 2009
Lots of people think that answers to legal question are online. Hah!Law librarians and lawyer know that few, if any, answers to legal ?questions? are ?online.? "Laws" are online (e.g. the ORS), but answers to legal problems are not; answers require research, study, synthesis, conclusions, negotiation, more research, study, and great leaps of faith, not to mention luck...

"Kids Turn" in Washington County (Oregon)

Posted on January 13, 2009
We get regular requests for the Kid's Turn phone number, so here it is: 503- 846-0665.This is a parenting program used in Washington County (Oregon).You can read more about parenting classes and related Oregon family law matters here and here and here and here.

Leaving Children Home Alone (in Oregon) - Update

Posted on January 13, 2009
Some who just left me a Comment on my previous leaving children home alone post asked if there were any laws ?about 2, 3 or 4 children being left in one home alone that are just friends or days alone or over night alone??I wish there was a simple answer, but there is not...

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