Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Upon taking a closer look at Law Practice’s blogging issue, I came upon a Q&A with Ernest Svenson, aka Ernie the Attorney. While I’m a big fan of his excellent legal blog, I’m disappointed in his lack of understanding of the value of print resources. According to Mr. Svenson: Small firms can also now afford …
Last week, the Wisconsin State Journal reported on Dane County Sup. Don Eggert’s blog chronicling his participation in the National Association of Counties annual meeting in Hawaii. Apparently, Eggert, who traveled to the meeting at his own expense, “is intent on showing County Board Chair Kevin Kesterson that it would have been worth the taxpayers’ …
From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: Alliance for Justice yesterday launched a Supreme Court Watch podcast as part of its larger Supreme Court Watch Web site. The podcast focuses on discussion of the future of the Supreme Court. AFJ also has a blog, Insider Scoop, devoted to the Supreme Court vacancy. AFJ is a national organization …
The La Crosse Tribune reports that the Wisconsin Legislature is considering “virtual visitation” (Assembly Bill 531 and Senate Bill 244) Highlights from the article: The bills state that if a court grants periods of physical placement to both parents, the court also may allow a parent a “reasonable amount of electronic communication at reasonable hours.” …
The American Association of Law Libraries conference in San Antonio starts this week and I’ll be there with bells on. In between presenting and touring the Alamo, I look forward to connecting with my colleagues and learning about new resources. Maybe I’ll even join a chorus or two at the CS-SIS Karaoke night! Although WisBlawg …
The latest issue of the ABA Law Practice Management Section’s Law Practice is devoted to blogging. Good stuff. Feature articles include: It’s Not Your Father’s Web Site: Lawyers in the Blogosphere It might seem hard to differentiate Weblogs from their well-known but more static cousin, the traditional Web site. Nonetheless, blogs are different—and in ways …
It seems that starting on August 1st, FindLaw will no longer offer free hosting for law-firm Web sites. Existing sites will be removed from its servers. Source: Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites
I guess you have to admire the entrepreneurship of librarian, William Jiang, who put his research services up for sale on ebay. I wonder what kind of projects, if any, he will get for his $50 asking price. That seems very low for any kind of time-consuming, serious research. But for quicker projects, why would …
From Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily (MarketWatch): PBS to run Internet-only TV series The Public Broadcasting System is expected to announce Wednesday it will Web cast an Internet-only, downloadable series of TV shows featuring interviews with technology experts. The move follows by a few days, Britain’s BBC announcement it would Web cast a regular TV series …
One time FindLaw “cheerleader,” blawgger Robert Ambrogi reports that in a recent study of the legal database he found that a over a quarter of links were bad. He writes: FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet, FindLaw used that index as the foundation …