Archive for the ‘law’ Category
Aug
Aug
The Business of Service
I went all @jmartens this afternoon in response to a tweet about the @sarahgilbert-Burgerville kerfuffle. I’m not normally a kneejerk tweeter, and it made me wonder why this in particular had hit some sort of hot button.
I’m not anti-bike at all. It warms my heart that my condo building has fiercer competition for bike berths [...]
May
May
Book, bell and candle.
I don’t have any particular reason for invoking the exorcist’s essential field kit, except that perhaps I myself need to expel some little gremlins running around in my brain. As most of you know, I was recently laid off from my job at Workbench Law. It was pretty much the only firm/person I would even [...]
Mar
Mar
Google Apps is my Hero
The only problem I’m having getting Google Apps up and running for Workbench Law is the sheer number of possible ways to go for collaborative things like running task lists. On the one hand, you can do form-based gadgets that link to spreadsheets elsewhere. On the other, you can create a variety of prefabbed tables [...]
Feb
Feb
Two Performers Needed for Legal Nonsense Night
Luke Lefler kindly provided me with a night to enable my dream of legal mumbo-jumbo read aloud. It’s going to be April 13, at 3 Friends Coffee House, starting at 7:00 pm, with an open mic to follow.
The format follows the name of the coffee shop – 3 readers/performers. We’re each going to have (roughly) [...]
Feb
Feb
The Chicken Co-op
See what I did there? With the title? That’s Comedy Gold.
You don’t have to be a chicken to start a co-op in Oregon, but if you are a chicken (the proper term is “risk averse”), or you want to have all the Starkadders around you as you wander into the unknown, or you generally like [...]
Jan
Jan
Legal Resources for Nonprofit Orgs
@xolotl just told me to post some links to legal resources for nonprofits. It’s a blawg-eat-blawg world out there, but after some digging, I found some clearinghouse-style resources for those who want to check out the basics:
This place is a good one to start with. It gives a decent overview of the process involved, and [...]
Jan
Jan
Drafting as Coding
I’m in the middle of the transition back to straight legal work, signified by a functioning desktop computer and a fetching new lunch sack. Thus far my assignments have been fairly simple, primarily document review, but my ongoing engagement with the tech world here in Portland has irrevocably changed the way I view such documents. [...]