Month: August 2004

The Dane County Clerk of Courts has recently enhanced their Web site. Additions include a substantial series of Frequently Asked Questions on many court functions and procedures, as well as links to downloadable Dane County-specific forms for Small Claims, Criminal/Traffic, and Family Court. Source: Paula Seeger, Dane County Legal Resource Center

The September 2004 edition of the DCLRC Docket (Dane County Legal Resource Center) is now available. Local court rules and local court forms are highlighted.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. It’s orientation time at the UW Law School and I’ve been busy welcoming our new law students, teaching workshops and giving tours. Things have settled down a bit and I’ll be blogging again soon.

The Department of Defense is the latest government department to offer RSS feeds. DefenseLINK feeds are available in the following areas: AFPS News Articles DoD Press Advisories DoD News Releases DoD Contract Announcements DoD Transcripts DoD Speeches Source: beSpacific

From Blawg As has been widely reported throughout the blawgosphere, Judge Richard Posner is guest-blawgging at Lawrence Lessig’s blawg this week. You can check in on Judge Posner’s postings here.

Here is another law student blog project from the American Constitution Society. The ACSBlog, a team effort of the American Constitution Society, will combine frequent news-oriented posts from law student bloggers with in-depth analysis pieces by leading legal scholars. Interesting trend. I suspect that we will see more law student team blogs to come. Source: …

The Summer 2004 issue of The Third Branch is now available. The Third Branch is a quarterly publication of the Director of State Courts Office, providing news of interest to the Wisconsin Court System. I thought the following article was especially interesting: Wisconsin hires first Stenomask reporter – Court Reporter Mark Garvin may look like …

I’m pleased to announce another blog from the UW Law School – Law & Entrepreneurship News According to UW Law Prof, Gordon Smith, L&E News is a new, student-edited blog examining recent developments in law and entrepreneurship. “More specifically, we will track judicial, legislative, regulatory, transactional, and scholarly developments relating to a number of topics. …

Bizjournals, publisher of regional business news is now offering webfeeds. There is a feed for The Business Journal from Milwaukee and another for legal services generally. Free registration is required. Source: TVC Alert

There sure are a lot of good articles out today – here is another one entitled, “What Partners Want From New Associates” from Law.com. It’s full of tips for new associates from highly accomplished lawyers. I was pleased to see that the very first recommendation was on the importance of asking questions. I always try …