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Oregon State Bar Bulletin — MAY 2009

Features

Stimulating Practice Changes
The Government’s Stimulus Bill Creates Opportunities, Challenges for Oregon Firms
By Cliff Collins

An Oregon
Constitutional Convention?
The Pros and Cons of a New Oregon Constitution
By James N. Westwood and Charles F. Hinkle

Columns

Bar Counsel
The ABCs of the CSF:
Client Security Fund
2008 Annual Report
By Sylvia E. Stevens

The Legal Writer
Word Choices IV:
Too Close for Comfort?
By Suzanne E. Rowe

Legal.Online
Building on Simplicity:
20 Tools to Make
Twitter Sing
By Robert J. Ambrogi

Profiles in the Law
Quest for Equality: Beth
Allen Finds Legal Career,
Pursuit of Gay Rights
Make for Perfect Match
By Melody Finnemore

Managing Your Practice
Weathering the Storm:
Law Firm Risk
Management in
Hard Times
By Mark J. Fucile

Legal Heritage
Back in the Day:
Lessons from Oregon
Reports, Volume 1
By Hon. Deanne Darling

Parting Thoughts
A New Reconstruction
By Jesse Wm. Barton

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Bar People
Among Ourselves
Moves
In Memoriam

Classifieds

Oregon law firms are mobilizing to help clients affected by the federal economic stimulus package. Cliff Collins explains the far-reaching impacts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and how some firms are responding.