Year: 2005

Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites reports that Medina County (OH) Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler is using the Internet to enhance public access to his courtroom. Several months ago, Kimbler began videotaping the sentencing proceedings he presides over and posting them to his court’s Web site. (Follow the link to Inside the Court: Online Edition.) He …

Update 1/18/05: Jennifer Aleknavage, Communications Manager for LexisNexis alerted me that there are some additional differences between the LexisNexis AlaCarte product and LexisNexis by Credit Card. According to her, LexisNexis AlaCarte: is targeted for small- to medium-sized businesses has a new and simplified interface for easy navigation-significant difference offers simplified search functionality options. You can …

From an article appearing in Findlaw for Legal Professionals: No one took any notice of the tall, slim man who appeared Tuesday for jury duty. Had he worn his black robe, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer no doubt would have drawn more attention. Even Marlborough, Mass., District Court Judge Thomas Sullivan Jr. didn’t recognize Breyer …

For those of you using a newsreader such as Bloglines to read this blog and other blogs via RSS, you might be interested to learn that Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news via RSS. Simply plug a ticker symbol into the Yahoo! Finance Company News RSS URL Generator and away you go. Source: beSpacific

LLRX.com has recently updated its excellent collection of links to court rules, forms and dockets. It includes links to over 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword. Of particular interest may be the collection of Wisconsin links. Source: …

The January 2005 issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now available from the Wisconsin State Law Library. Featured are librarian Julie Tessmer’s visit to Serbia as law library consultant for the National Center for State Courts’ (NCSC) Rule of Law project and a tech tip on Cell Phones, Telemarketing and Wireless 411 Service.

The new Acrobat Reader 7.0 is now available as a free download. For more information, see the summary of new features. Source: PDF for Lawyers

LexisNexis has launched a free online resource called LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News, which provides updated news stories on the Bush administration, notable political figures, Iraq, and more from over 4,000 U.S. and International news sources. Special coverage on the Tsunami Disaster is currently featured on the site. This site is the successor of …

According to a notice I just received, the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service has resumed for the 2005-06 Legislature. The Wisconsin Legislative Notification System allows anyone the opportunity to follow legislation by receiving daily or weekly emails for specific legislative activities. You can choose items by Proposal, Committee, Author or Subject and can select the activities …

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has recently prepared an Overview of State Agency Major Request Items for the 2005-07 Wisconsin State Budget The report provides “an overview of the 2005-07 budget requests which state agencies have submitted for inclusion in the executive budget document. Its purpose is to highlight the major changes which have been requested …