Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Line56.com, the E-Business Executive Daily, offers eight Intranet Trends to Watch For. They are: 1. Intranets return to the domain of the departments 2. The records management and the legal departments get involved 3. All employees become intranet publishers 4. The corporate telephone directory loses its luster 5. The new killer app — the knowledge …
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article about marketers creating fake blogs about their products to create buzz. According to the article, Fake Blogs, True Buzz, results have been mixed.
Here’s a fun one just in time for Halloween – Ghosts of the White House – from the official White House Web site. Watch videos featuring “stories of strange noises in the White House, sightings of President Abraham Lincoln’s ghost and a Halloween prank by President Carter’s daughter.” Also features a transcript from a Halloween …
Law Practice Today has Fifteen Practical Tips for Managing Your E-mail. Tips are based on author, Reid Trautz’s session at the ABA TECHSHOW, “The Top Ten Legal Technologies—Are You Using Them?” The tips are: 1. Take time to explore the features and functions of your e-mail program. 2. Learn how to use your e-mail software …
In a press release last week, Westlaw announced a new de-duplication feature that automatically identifies, tags and sorts duplicate copies of news articles and business records in search results. This is particularly useful for removing identical news wire articles which are picked up by multiple publications. Source: ResourceShelf
The October issue of the ABA Journal has a short article about judges practicing fact finding via the Internet. Entitled In Google We Trust?, the full text of the article is available in Wisconsin via Badgerlink. The author notes that “an ABA committee reviewing the Model Code of Judicial Conduct has proposed a revision that …
From the E-LawLibrary Weblog: Law Office Computing’s Best Law Office Web Sites The October/November 2004 issue of Law Office Computing includes the results of the magazine’s 6th Annual Best Law Office Web Site Contest. The winner and finalists in the Small Firms category: •Gilbert Heintz & Randolph (Winner) •Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry (Finalist) …
For those following the recent presidential debates, here’s a bit of history from the folks at the Wisconsin Historical Society Presidential Debates: Lincoln & Douglass Recalled Dateline: Freeport, Ill., Aug. 26, 1858. Wisconsin editor Martin Rindlaub was on hand that day to hear the two famous candidates go at it. In this interview he compares …
For a summary of legislative developments targeting pop-up ads and p2p, see Findlaw’s Modern Practice article entitled Congressional Attack on Axis of Internet Evil: Pop-Up Ad Spies & P2P Pirates.
There were some interesting and amusing answers when the ABA Journal e-report asked “What was the most surprising thing you learned from serving on a jury?”