GoogSpy is a new tool that reveals what adwords companies are purchasing in Google. Search for your or your client’s name or product names to see who is using them as adwords. Or, enter in …
Year: 2005
Amazon is Selling Law Review Articles
It seems that Amazon.com has begun selling law review articles and some folks aren’t too happy about it. From a post at TaxProfBlog: As one who fights with law reviews to retain the right to …
Wisconsin Innocence Project Goes to Trial
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article about the UW Law School Wisconsin Innocence Project’s involvement in the retrial of Evan Zimmerman, a former police officer in the 2000 killing of his ex-girlfriend in Eau …
Search Feature Added to Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records Database
The UW Law Library has recently added a Google search for our database of Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records database. Browsing by session is also still available. Although the database contains drafting records from the 1999/2000; …
Legislative Council Reports on Transportation & Fiscal Management
Staff of the Wisconsin Legislative Council have issued two new reports to the legislature: Special Committee on Wisconsin’s Transportation Network Infrastructure (2005 Senate Bill 162), April 11, 2005 Special Committee on Improving Wisconsin’s Fiscal Management …
What Will It Cost to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game?"
Ok, this doesn’t have much to do with legal research, but I thought it was interesting. Team Marketing Report has created a Fan Cost Index which tracks the cost of attendance for a family of …
Google Search History
Like Weslaw’s Research Trail and LexisNexis’ History, Google has added a new service called My Search History which lets you view and manage your previous searches from any computer. To use it, you’ll need to …
Legal Job Seekers Resources from NALP
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) has produced two useful sources for job seekers: The 2005-2006 Directory of Legal Employers (database) – Search or browse by employer (includes private practice firms and corporations and …
TABOR Bibliography from Wisconsin LRB
Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) is the latest bibliography in the Tap The Power series from the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Theobald Legislative Library. This bibliography lists print and electronic resources on the Taxpayer Bill …
Chief Justice Abrahamson Outlines History Sources Used by WI Supreme Court in Statutory Interpretation Cases
In a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (2004 WI 58), Chief Justice Abrahamson has produced an excellent overview of extrinsic sources, including legislative history, used by the court in statutory interpretation cases. …