Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
BlinkxTV, a search engine for audio and video content, has unveiled what SearchEngineWatch’s Gary Price has coined a “virtual lecture space.” From Netimperative: Search engine blinkx has formed agreements with several universities and an educational content partnership with the University Channel, to make hundreds of hours of academic audio content. . . Blinkx.tv users can …
Next month, the Wisconsin State Bar will be releasing the first practice area library (real estate) of its new online Fillable Forms Bank. According to Inside the Bar, November 2005, the Forms Bank will incorporate nearly 2,000 electronic forms, sample language documents, and checklists developed by State Bar CLE Books. This is a wonderful idea. …
In another one from The Third Branch, Eileen Kilbane, deputy clerk in the Dane County Clerk of Courts Office, shares her experiences as a juror in the Chai Vang trial. “I have seen how the court system works on a day-to-day basis and thought it would be interesting to see how it works from a …
This month, The Third Branch takes a look at the experiences of Dane County Small Claims Assistance Program (SCAP) volunteers. “This is a walk-in program where unrepresented small claims litigants can get legal information - but not legal advice, representation, or advocacy - from volunteer lawyers and paralegals,” explained Atty. Jennifer L. Binkley, co-chair of …
Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia. I heard about this at BlawgThink this weekend. Looks to me like Cornell has developed a legal research wiki. Excellent idea! But unlike the anyone-can-say-anything-variety wiki, Cornell is screening authors. Keep your eye on this one. Thanks to Out of the Jungle for the link.
From Keith Findley, Co-Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project: The Wisconsin Innocence Project is hosting the Madison premier of the award winning documentary film After Innocence on Thursday, November 17th at 7:00 p.m. After Innocence tells the powerfully moving stories of the exonerated — innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA …
Kudos to the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes for its new and improved web site redesign. The organization is intuitive and the layout is both attractive and consistent. In the handy features category, I especially like the Wisconsin Law Archive with quick links to Statutes & Acts back to 1969. The “go to” by citation boxes …
There’s nothing like the threat of public humiliation to get people to pay their back taxes – or so hopes the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, at least. From the front page of today’s Wisconsin State Journal: More than 7,250 delinquent taxpayers got especially bleak news this week, when letters were sent out notifying them their …
Anthropodermic bibliopegy – the technical term for books bound in human skin. Ok, I’m a librarian and this one is even new to me. And I took a class on book binding in library school. But a 3L at Harvard has written an interesting, albeit it disturbing, piece about this practice. From the article in …
The other day, I asked my preschooler about his favorite part of the day. “Play time,” he responded. I smiled – not exactly the reply I was expecting. Then I thought – how little things change. Play time is one of my favorite parts of the day as a law librarian, too. The toys I …