Year: 2004

The February issue Wisconsin Lawyer has an excellent guide to finding expert witnesses on the Web. Author, Diane Duffey, member of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin writes: “Whether one is trying to locate the least fallible expert for one’s case, or to unearth the weaknesses of an expert employed by the other side, there …

Did you know that Google offers many advanced search features such as an image search, movie review search, search for specific file type (pdf, doc, etc.) and more? NO?? Then check out Soople, the “Easy Expert Search.” Soople provides a single, easy to use, template for using many of Google’s advanced search features. Read more …

Law.com has an interesting article about changing demographics in juries and how law schools are adjusting their curriculum. “Professor Steven Lubet, the director of Northwestern’s trial advocacy program, describes the use of high-tech trial techniques and their impact on case presentation to Gen X jurors as a fundamental shift, and he expects other law schools …

New Workshop from the Wisconsin State Law Library: Using the Internet for Case Preparation Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:00-11:30 a.m. Wisconsin State Law Library Computer Training Room 120 MLK, Jr. Blvd., Madison In this hands-on class, guest instructors Diane Duffey, Librarian at Habush Habush & Rottier S.C., Milwaukee and Theodore A. Potter, Associate Director at …

Not new – but worth repeating: The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) offers a nifty free search tool called CRIS(Corporate Registration Information System) for locating information about corporations in Wisconsin. CRIS provides the official corporate name, registered agent address, principal office, state of incorporation, type of entity, prior corporate names, and notifications of merger …

Wish that Web page had a nice short URL that you could write down or share with someone? Fortunately, there are a number of free URL shortening services that do just that. One of these services, notlong.com, has a very useful chart comparing features of many url shortening services. Source: beSpacific

The Spring 2004 edition of Class Action, the Association of Wisconsin Legal Administrators newsletter, has a nice article entitled “Are Wisconsin Administrative Decisions Available Online??” The article, written by Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Carol Schmitt, gives tips on where to find decisions by agency.

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PCWorld has an interesting article about a virus that can infect cellular phones. “[The virus] spreads between mobile phones using a specially formatted Symbian operating system distribution (or SIS) file disguised as a security management utility… Once it has infected a mobile phone, [the virus] scans for other phones using Bluetooth wireless technology, then sends …

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