Year: 2005

Martindale.com has recently added the option for law firms to include diversity profiles with their listings. According to a Business Wire article, this new online marketing offering “helps law firms improve their business development outreach …

RSS fans will be pleased to learn that CNN has created a bunch of RSS feeds. Categories include top stories, most popular, law, technology and more. CNN Money RSS feeds are also available. Source: Library …

According to the January issue of Inside the Bar, free computerized legal research is available to attorneys and law students performing pro bono work in Wisconsin. The State Bar and LexisNexis™ partnership provides free use …

Update 1/19/05: It appears that “Cost-Effective Canadian Legal Research: Finding Free Canadian Legal Materials on the Internet” is now available on the Wisconsin Law Journal Web site. For anyone needing to do Canadian legal research, …

WestCiteLink has been around for a while. It’s a software application that automatically finds the legal citations in your word-processing documents and links them to the full text documents on Westlaw. But I recently learned …

Through its Wisconsin Legislative Action Center (Capwiz) service, the Wisconsin State Bar offers action alerts on important legislative issues. According to Deb Sybell, Government Relations Coordinator at the Wisconsin State Bar, the action alerts are …

Get ready for a trip down memory lane, Milwaukeeans. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Special Collections department (my alma mater) has compiled an interesting collection entitled Greetings from Milwaukee. The collection contains digital images of the …

The Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association has released their 2004 picks for the Best Free Reference Web Sites. Of particular interest may be: Pew Internet & American Life According to its mission …

Although it’s not new, I’ve recently learned about a service called Courthouse News Service (CNS). A news wire for lawyers, CNS employs a network of correspondents who file daily reports covering new appellate rulings, new …

Bloggers are on the cover of a recent issue of Fortune magazine. The full text of the article, Why You Can’t Ignore Bloggers is available online. From the article: But whatever the topic, the discussion …