Friday’s ABA Journal E-Report offers some advice for attorneys and other legal practitioners who are thinking about blogging. It also encourages firm administrators to establish guidelines for their employee bloggers.
Month: May 2005
Milwaukee Small Claims Self-Help Clinic
The Milwaukee County Courthouse has established a self-help clinic for small claims matters. The clinic will run every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The clinic is seeking volunteers to help provide general information …
Historical GATT Document Database
The GATT Digital Library is a new database from Stanford University & the World Trade Organization. The collection contains over 30,000 documents of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization …
Pretrieve Links to Court Records
Pretrieve, my new favorite people finder, has added court records to it’s search results. In Wisconsin, this means that it will conduct a search in the WI Supreme Court opinion & orders database and the …
Wiretap Report
The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has issued their 2004 Wiretap Report. The report covers the number and nature of federal and state applications for orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, …
L&E News Hosts Blawg Review #4
UW Law School’s very own Law & Entrepreneurship News hosts this week’s Blawg Review. As you may recall, Blawg Review offers weekly summaries of the week’s hot posts from around the blawgosphere. This week’s topics …
Free Online Reader's Companion to American History
Houghton Mifflin has made its full-text Reader’s Companion to American History available at no charge online. It contains the following titles: + Reader’s Companion to American History + Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History + …
Man Dies of Starvation Trying to Keep Up with Online Communities?
MediaDailyNews has a sad story about a NY man who died of starvation while trying to keep up with almost 50 online forums and contributing to 375 different blogs. He was glued to his computer …
Article: Overview of Findlaw
Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Beth Bland, has written an informative article entitled, Findlaw for Legal Professionals: An Overview, which appears in the April 27th edition of Wisconsin Law Journal. The article describes the …
"Freed by the Wisconsin Innocence Project"
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the murder case against Evan Zimmerman has been dropped. As you may recall, this was Wisconsin Innocence Project’s latest case. Eau Claire County District Attorney Rich White asked a …