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As a law Librarian, I deal in problems and am a purveyor of solutions.  If you've got a problem, I know where you can go to solve it.   Small claims? I know four resources that can help you. Bankruptcy?  Pick your chapter and I've got answers. RICO, unlawful detainer, criminal, appeals (civil OR criminal), military justice, estate planning, family law, tax, federal, UCC, real property (commercial or otherwise), contracts, personal injury.  Whatever you need, answers I've got. So, the other day, a newly minted attorney came into my law library hoping I was all I was hyped up to be.  Turns out he had just accepted a rather messy case.  I mean, it was one of those cases that if he won, it would put him on the map.  If he lost, well.... So, being newly minted and not knowing the ways of the legal world, I introduced him to the world of Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) and showed him all the great things they offered like: California Civil D...

Hopefully you have not but maybe you have been in embroiled in a legal case.  Maybe in the course of litigation, a witness was on the stand saying things that you, and everyone around them, knew they were lying (well, everyone except the judge). Such was the case with a person who came into my library the other day.   Seems lady was in the middle of her divorce case.  Soon-to-be-ex husband gets up on the stand and starts to spew falsehood after falsehood about the value of their once joint company.   She is sitting in her chair absolutely dumbfounded and could not believe her ears.  Good thing that his testimony was at the end of the day and the judge called for a recess until 10:00AM the following day. Lady is standing in front of me asking how is it possible that he can lie like that?  Of course, this brings us to our word of the month: PERJURE .  According to Black's Law Dictionary, PERJURE means: To make (oneself) culpable of de...

Do you dream when you sleep?   Have you ever had that dream that you had prepared for the biggest presentation of your life?  You have your charts and handouts all ready, you've ordered the freshest danishes and then...you showed up on the wrong day.  Oops. That's kinda how things went for one person/plaintiff I met the other day.   Seems they had been working on the same civil case for little over 6 years.  They went through hellish discovery . They went through hellish settlement conferences . They did hellish meet and confers . They repeatedly fought back the desire to kill opposing counsel for impinging their character over and over.   Then, when the end was in sight and a trial date was actually set, person misread the notice and appeared for trial on the wrong day.   Y ep, the trial was on Wednesday and plaintiff showed up on Thursday.  Oops! Had the judge simply dismissed the case , plaintiff could hav...

The duduk kasus with being an omnipotent law Librarian is that after a while of hitting on all 16 cylinders, pulling answers out of the sky like they were cotton candy, you start to feel all powerful, thinking you know everything - until you skip a beat and you can't find anything.  Then you start to question the sanity of the universe. Such was my life the other day.  Seems this Guy came into my law library.  Seems Guy had just been in family court where his ex-wife had filed a motion to legally change his son's name to her new flame's name.  Judge told Guy she'd deny the motion if he could find something to prevent the change.  Guy was under the gun and came to me - the omnipotent Librarian - to help him in his hour of need.  I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything for him.  I mean, EVERYWHERE!  Guy flips out claiming that everyone told him that I was THE go to Librarian when you can't find something and that I failed him. Hu...