Year: 2005

The U.S. Courts have created a useful guide entitled, A Journalist’s Guide to the Federal Courts. Although the guide is intended for journalists covering a federal trial court or appellate court, its usefulness extends to a wider audience. Welcome! Introduction Federal District Courts • Key Players • Types and Sources of Court Information • A …

Daniel Harmon, editor of The Lawyer’s PC, has written an outstanding article on “Blawg Promotion.” (Available on Westlaw, 22 NO. 22 Law. PC 1) As the number of blawgs continues to skyrocket, readers may find themselves overwhelmed with choices. Harmon offers some excellent tips on how to make your blawg stand out from the crowd. …

A recent study by Reconnex, provider of enterprise risk management systems, revealed the following alarming statistics: 91% of Companies Assessed Exposed Employee and/or Customer Personal Data – This included credit card & social security numbers entering or leaving their network. Many exposed this data directly in the subject lines of emails, in clear, open text. …

There are a number of nice people finding databases on the Web, but what happens when you aren’t sure of the spelling an individual’s last name? A database search is only as good as the query that you input. As the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out. Although Surname Finder is designed as a genealogy …

Friday, August 26th is Women’s Equality Day which celebrates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. On Thursday evening from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m, the Wisconsin Women’s Network will host a celebration at the Capitol in the Senate Parlor. Their special guest is Genevieve G. McBride, …

I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s worth reminding that Washington & Lee Law School has compiled an awesome tool called Current Law Journal Content. CLJC indexes articles from current law journal using RSS feeds. The service is very robust. You can do all of the following: Display all the tables of contents for law journal …

USA Today reports on the unusual program at a Swedish library that allows you to “borrow” a real live human being. From the article: This weekend, nine people, including a homosexual, an imam, a journalist, a Muslim woman and a gypsy, will be available at the Malmoe Library for members of the public to “borrow” …

Last week, ABA’s Answers of the Week featured some interesting answers to the question: If you could go back and attend law school again, what opportunity do you wish you had pursued? Or what seemed like a big deal at the time but, looking back on it, you would not pursue again? Source: UBLaw Phoenix

The Third Branch has a nice article on the Wisconsin court system summer internship program for law students, which placed 32 volunteer law clerks in 19 counties and at the Supreme Court this summer. Highlights from the article: “It’s a lot of question and answer and give and take,”” said Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge …

Last week, Steve Matthews, law librarian at Clark Wilson LLP in Vancouver, announced the launch of RSS feeds for the firm’s publications. Kudos to Steve and Clark Wilson on realizing the use of RSS outside of the blogosphere! Steve described the project on the Slaw blog: With more and more email getting caught in spam …