Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Law.com has created a guide to Best Practices for Legal Blogging. Why should you care? From the article: As the use of blogs as a marketing tool proliferates among lawyers, differences in quality between blogs covering the same topic will become evident. There are only so many blogs that prospective clients can read on a …
Once again, the Wisconsin State Law Library has a great slate of workshops scheduled. Registration forms are available on their Classes & Tours webpage. – 25 Legal Tech Tips in 90 Minutes Wednesday July 12, 2006 10:00-11:30 a.m. During this fast-paced romp through technology tips for the law office, you’ll learn how to recover fast …
“Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman,” a new true-crime documentary involving the University of Wisconsin Innocence Project will be broadcast on the A&E cable television network on Monday, June 5 from 8-10 p.m. central time. From the Innocence Project press release: “Facing Life” documents Zimmerman’s decision to face the possibility of life in prison …
Judge Daniel Anderson responded to yesterday’s post Metadata: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You. He recommends using the Microsoft Office add-in that removes hidden data. With his permission, I’d like to share his comments: Metadata is a big problem in an appellate court because documents are circulated among a large group of people and …
Heads up Mom and Dad. Wisconsin’s new Child Booster Seat Law takes affect today. See the fact sheet with diagram from the DOT. Written warnings will be issued instead of citations for first violations during a grace period from June 1 until December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, law enforcement officers will begin issuing …
Looking for a few good titles to add to your summer reading list? Check out MADreads, a new blog from the Madison Public Library. Each day they’ll feature a new fiction or nonfiction book review from a Madison Public Library staff member. Reviews are archived by genre.