Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here’s the title of a recent post over at Human Law: Discuss – Librarian law bloggers are more astute than top law firms marketing departments about the blogosphere Enough said, I think. Source: Law.com Blog Network
If you are a firm administrator or someone else who manages employees, you should take a look at an article from FindLaw’s Modern Practice entitled, Workplace Worries: Blogging, IMing, IPods, and Camera Phones, Oh My!. Despite the cheesy title, this article highlights some interesting – and troubling – issues surrounding employees’ use of these technologies …
From LibrarianInBlack: Google Spreadsheets Well, I posted early in the day that Google was launching Spreadsheets, all incredulous and cranky that it hadn’t appeared yet. But it did, and here’s the information: spreadsheets.google.com/. They’re still sending out invitations to folks, so you can get one if you sign up soon! (LIB posted this yesterday)
Timothy L. Coggins, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law has compiled a very comprehensive list of Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Others. It appears in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Spring, 2006 (12 Rich. J.L. & …
The UW Law School has put together a new edition in its Legal Studies Research Paper series (via SSRN). The following papers are available: (Bloggers take note of the last one) “The New versus the Old Legal Realism: ‘Things Ain’t What They Used to Be'” STEWART MACAULAY University of Wisconsin Law School “A New Realism …
I recently learned of a new blog called Callinan the Librarian. The blog deals with the the challenges of balancing life and librarianship and shares the successes of all librarians pursing and achieving good. The blog is an off-shoot of a law librarian consulting practice developed by Ellen Callinan, a 20 year law librarian veteran. …
Court Webcasting is a new project weblog from WV Supreme Court Clerk, Rory Perry. For a list of courts who webcast their proceedings, see the list on the right hand side of the page. (Note that the link to the WI Supreme Ct is broken. Here’s the right one.) Why should legal researchers watch these …
MADreads reviews a pretty funny sounding book called Yes Man about a man that literally said yes to everything for a year. Here’s the review: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! By Sarah – Alicia Ashman on Nonfiction Yes Man – Next time a telemarketer asks if you’d like to learn more about their fantastic …
If you are looking to brush up your Web-based legal research skills this summer, you might want to consider attending a one day seminar entitled, Internet Research in Wisconsin. The seminar, put on by Lorman Education Services, will be held in Brookfield on August 16th & again in Madison on August 17th. I’ll be presenting …
A herd of 101 painted, costumed, and whimsically transformed cows have invaded the Capitol City. They are part of CowParade Wisconsin 2006 and they will be on display throughout Wisconsin all summer. This week they’re in Madison, mostly downtown and around campus. Check out the Cow Locator for the exact locations. Or if you can’t …