Year: 2004

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 …

There is a nice article in Findlaw’s Writ Legal Commentary entitled, “The Anti-Phishing Act of 2004: A Useful Tool Against Identity Theft” that defines “phishing” and comments on the new anti-phishing bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy. [Phishing is “the act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate …

Despite shrinking print collections due to the increased availability of electronic legal information, according to this article from Columbus Business First, law firm librarians find themselves busier than ever. Here’s a quote from the article: “If anything, my workload has increased a lot,” [Librarian Margaret] Toole said. So much information is now available that having …

I recently learned that the Wisconsin Historical Society is offering a number of webfeeds. The Odd Wisconsin one looks particularly interesting.