Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Carol Schmitt has written an excellent article on Looking for Info on Wisconsin Legislation. It appears in the May 2006 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer. The piece looks at some of the major changes and updates to the Wisconsin Legislature Web site and introduces researchers to additional sites such …
UPDATE: ABC News selects Chris Ochoa as “Person of the Week” ———————————- JS Online has a nice story about University of Wisconsin law student, Chris Ochoa, who this weekend earned his law degree, becoming only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence to do so. He was freed from …
UPDATE: ABC News selects Chris Ochoa as “Person of the Week” ———————————- JS Online has a nice story about University of Wisconsin law student, Chris Ochoa, who this weekend earned his law degree, becoming only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence to do so. He was freed from …
Ken Strutin, Director of Legal Information Services for the New York State Defenders Association, has compiled a nice summary of how blogs have been considered by the courts. The article, “Blogs Raise New Questions About the Line Between Public and Private,” appears in the Technology Today section (page 5) of the May 9, 2006 New …
Good news for law students, faculty, and staff: the Wall Street Journal and other Factiva content is finally available via LexisNexis to law schools. From the press release: Beginning May 12, your students, faculty and library staff will have access to the following Factiva sources: Publication Name: – Asian Wall Street Journal – Barron’s – …
As a follow-up to my presentation on blogs at their annual meeting last week, the Association of Legal Administrators invited me to participate in a forum on blogs. I’d like to share one of the questions I received: Question: If a blog is as good as an intranet for communicaions with staff, why not stick …
So you just got a cool new cell phone, but what do you do with the old one? Trade it in for something you want with these services: – RIPMobile From their site: You tell us what old (and not-so-old) mobile phones you have sitting in a drawer or on a shelf around the house. …
From Law Dawg Blawg: Colette Vogele and Mia Garlick are the authors of Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution (2006) (38 p., PDF), published under a Creative Commons license. According to the Introduction, “[t]he purpose of this Guide is to provide [readers] with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to …
In WSLL’s monthly Tech Tip in Brief, Librarian Heidi Yelk offers recommendations on the Storage and Transfer of Large Files. There are dozens of free services on the web that allow users to upload files and make them available for later pick up. Maximum size limits vary. While some services allow free transfers up to …
“The Director of State Courts Office recently introduced sixteen Spanish language circuit court forms on the court system’s website. The forms were selected by a subcommittee composed of members of the court system’s Interpreter Committee and Records Management Committee, to help meet the growing need for Spanish language court forms.” Read more at WSLL @ …