Year: 2005

In catching up on my print reading, I noticed the following announcement in The Lawyer’s PC: “Thomson West Opens New Learning Center with Milwaukee Bar.” The article is available on Westlaw (22 No. 18 LAWPC 7) According to the article: Thomson West has partnered with the MBA to establish and support a Learning Center located …

Law.com has a review of the first installment of NBC’s “The Law Firm,” which has “something no other reality TV show has: a behind-the-scenes look at real trial lawyers in action on real cases. ” Of the 10 lawyers left, eight are members of the California State Bar, seven live in or around Los Angeles, …

Kudos to Forbes for reminding readers about the many wonderful databases available at no cost to researchers from their public libraries. The author writes: [Public libraries] offer Net access to an increasingly wide range of databases that don’t exist on the open Web and, because they reside behind a fee-based gate, don’t get indexed by …

The Department of Justice recently launched a National Sex Offender Public Registry with which users can submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders. Wisconsin is one of about 20 states currently included in the registry. However, according to the DOJ, data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has more on the investigation into the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) database, commonly known as CCAP. Highlights from the article: But now an oversight committee of 20 will review the rules governing CCAP. The panel includes judges, clerks of circuit courts, representatives from the courts, district attorneys’ offices, law enforcement …

The Wisconsin State Journal has a nice piece on the role of corporate blogs as marketing tools. The article offers the following tips to consider before launching a corporate blog: Strategy – Define the target audience, goals and objectives Technology – Choose a blog package with user-friendly features Marketing – Don’t forget to publicize the …

Dane 101, online publication about persons, events, and issues that shape Madison and Dane County, discusses organization-based blogs emerging in Dane County. Note that both WisBlawg and DCLRC Blawg are featured. From the post: The use of the blog platform as a communications tool by governmental bodies and NGOs is slowly but surely spreading in …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on a libel suit involving Milwaukee WTMJ radio talk show host Charlie Sykes over a post on his blog. The suit was settled last week for $5,000. The bulk of the article discusses the implications of the Communication Decency Act for media-bloggers.

According to Robert Ambrogi, it seems that VersusLaw will expand its library of federal district court opinions to include cases back to 1950. At the same time, it will raise the monthly prices of its premium and professional plans by $5. The monthly subscription to the premium plan will increase from $19.95 to $24.95 and …

Although many court documents are available electronically thanks to systems such as CM/ECF (Case Management/Electronic Case Filing) via PACER, not all courts are using this technology. In those situations, the researcher must make other arrangements to get needed documents. If the court is local, making a trip to the courthouse might be an option. If …