Year: 2005

The 7th Annual Wisconsin Law and Technology Conference is scheduled for November 8th at the Wyndham Milwaukee Center. This “no geek-speak” conference focuses on technology and practice management education for attorneys, judges, legal support staff, law librarians, legal admissions, court personnel and law firm IT professionals. I’m pleased to be a panelist for two of …

Sorry for the absence last week. I was at the Ohio Regional and Chicago Association of Law Libraries (ORALL/CALL) joint meeting in Indianapolis. It was a great conference with a wide variety of speakers. . . including me. My presentation was entitled, Searching the “New” Web: Blogs and RSS. Other sessions that I was able …

The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has prepared a guide to Redistricting: Why Legislative Districts Are Redrawn, How It Is Done, and by Whom. The guide is available in PDF.

From the National Center for State Courts: Individual articles from the 2005 Future Trends in State Courts Report are being featured on the Knowledge and Information Services portion of the Web site. Current articles include “Human Trafficking: A Growing Crime to Hit State Courts” and “The Future of Court Security and Judicial Safety.” The report …

Have new noticed the new Easy Search format in LexisNexis? Seems that it’s Lexis’ answer to a more “Google-like” search experience. Here’s what they had to say about it: Easy Search is a new search form on lexis.com which users may select as an alternative to the current “Terms and Connectors” or “Natural Language” search …

In first of its kind two-day event, BlawgThink 2005! will bring together legal bloggers for two days of education, innovation, fellowship and fun. The event will be held at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago on November 11 and 12. The first day of BlawgThink will feature structured educational sessions led by top legal bloggers covering …

“Chief Judge Kitty Brennan is telling Milwaukee County supervisors that they could face a lawsuit on court funding unless they restore judicial and court staffing that County Executive Scott Walker has pegged for elimination in 2006.” Read the article in JS Online for more details.

Looks like Google it at it again – this time with its new RSS reader, Google Reader. Perhaps it’s too soon to make a judgment (it is still in beta, afterall), but I wasn’t impressed. The interface isn’t intuitive and it didn’t seem to retain my subscriptions. If you are interested in trying out a …

The New York Times has an excellent article on law bloggers. Blogging, it seems, is a particularly apt medium for attorneys who, as a profession, “write well, quickly and clearly and do not fear arguments.” There are some great quotes from some notable folks: “It’s all words, that’s all the law is,” Scott Turow, a …

The American Association of Law Libraries has announced the winning photographs in the “Day in the Life of the Law Library Community” Contest. The photos were taken by AALL members during National Library Week 2005 (April 10-16). Photos depict law librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that law librarians do in a given day …