WASHINGTON COUNTY (OREGON) LAW LIBRARY

ON & OFF THE GRID LEGAL RESEARCH (IT'S NOT ALL ONLINE!)

Legal Research Materials Not Available Online

o Oregon legislative history (older statutes, OARs, minutes, exhibits, etc.).
o The majority of current and older secondary resources (texts, monographs,
treatises, hornbooks, etc.)
o Full runs of superseded court rules, supplementary local rules, appellate rules
and procedures, etc.
o Oregon MCLE program course books.
o OCDLA publications.
o Authoritative (citable) legal dictionaries and thesauri
o Authoritative (citable) medical dictionaries
o Superseded Blue Books and other citation manuals.
o OSB & OCDLA legislative highlights, court briefs, committee reports
o Older municipal codes & ordinances.
o Jury instructions, judicial bench books, ADR materials.
o Older disciplinary reports and Bar directories.
o Older lawyer locator services, bar publications, newsletters, etc.

Legal Materials Online, but Not Free (or even easy)

o Superseded official state statutes, official cases, etc.
o Many legal forms
o Online subscription databases (OJIN, Westlaw, Lexis, Loislaw, OSB
BarBooks, etc.), including, but not limited to:
 Case law
 Dockets
 Digest services
 Law Reviews (full runs)
 Citators (Lexis Shepard’s or Westlaw KeyCite)
 Legal encyclopedias
 Annotations.

OREGON COUNTY LAW LIBRARY RESOURCES:

 Clackamas County Law Library

 Lane County Law Library
 Washington County Law Library
 Oregon Council of County Law Libraries
 Oregon Legal Research Blog

Updated, April 28, 2010