Month: March 2005

I recently learned that U.S. law students, faculty and staff are once again eligible to receive individual passwords for Quicklaw, as known formerly as Quicklaw America. Quicklaw, which merged a few years back with LexisNexis Canada, is a Web-based resource that offers over 2,500 databases of law, news and information from Canada, the United States, …

The Terry Schiavo case has everyone thinking about living wills. The UW Law School Elder Law Clinic is offering an opportunity to create a living will at no cost during their Advance Directives Fair in the UW Law School Atrium next week, April 4th-8th. Hours are Monday 11-2, Tuesday 10-12, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 10-3. This …

The Terry Schiavo case has everyone thinking about living wills. The UW Law School Elder Law Clinic is offering an opportunity to create a living will at no cost during their Advance Directives Fair in the UW Law School Atrium next week, April 4th-8th. Hours are Monday 11-2, Tuesday 10-12, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 10-3. This …

From the DCLRC Docket (April 2005): Dane County Bar Association Grants for Worthy Causes program has awarded DCLRC [Dane County Legal Resource Center] grant funding for our subscription to Shepard’s Public Access and supplies for the Small Claims Assistance Program. Thank you, DCBA, for helping to support our services!

The Denver Post reports that the email marketing company, OptInRealBig.com has filed for bankruptcy. The company cites costly legal fees its battle with Microsoft, which claims OptInRealBig.com illegally spams computer users. According to the article, the company made $15 million a year sending 15 million e-mail messages a day. Source: TVC Alert

Looking for a WiFi hot spot to connect your wireless laptop or PDA? With WiFiHotSpotList.com, you can find out where the hot spots are near your home or business. This is also great resource for travelers. Simply enter in an address to get a list of nearby hot spots. Or browse by location. WiFiHotSpotList.com identifies …

From TVC Alert: The cover story in the current Washington Lawyer discusses the pros and cons of Weblogs, and how they are taking off in the legal profession. The article ends with a briefly annotated list of prominent legal blogs.

Standard and Poor’s has launched a free database called SchoolMatters which provides information and analysis about public schools in the United States. Data is available nationally, by state, or even by local school district. Articles about the database appear in both the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Stateline.org. From the Stateline.org article: Ever wonder how much …

I used to get over a hundred emails per day. Thanks to a pretty good spam filter, that number is down, but not by as much as you would think. Harvard Business School has put together a useful list of Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload. It instructs emailers both how to send better emails and …

Between Lawyers is a new blog on the issues raised when technology, culture and the law intersect. It is a cooperative effort by a group of veteran blawgers: Denise Howell (Bag and Baggage) Dennis Kennedy (DennisKennedy.Blog) Tom Mighell (inter alia) Marty Schwimmer(The Trademark Blog) Ernest Svenson (Ernie the Attorney) According to a post in Ernie …