Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Today, my email address got some wonderful news. “Your Email Addres Has Won Award” said the message. It was one of only “10 lucky winners in the Euro Millones Lottery International Email Address draw[ing]” Funny that the prize officials chose to notify her through the Law-Lib listserv then. I hope all those other email addresses …
Looks like LexisNexis has tuned in to the blogosphere. They are now picking up blog content in their Newstex (file name = NEWSTX) database. Lori Blair, Marketing Manager with the LexisNexis – Librarian Relations Group just send me a link to the list of blogs they cover. According to Lexis, coverage is January 1, 2006 …
At long last, my article on the Law Library Blogosphere has finally seen the light of day. A big thanks to Sabrina Pacifici for publishing it in LLRX. The article is based on a survey I did last fall of law library bloggers and those developing blogs. Abstract: Although the legal and library literature is …
Here’s a tip for Academic Librarians: Inspired by Rob Hudson’s article, Law Students Write About Law Libraries (or, What Students Really Think: A Survey of Student Blawgs)*, I thought that someone should be monitoring what our law students bloggers are saying about the law library. Since I don’t want to read every post (especially those …
Looking for samples of software license agreement or an employment contract? Check out Findlaw’s Corporate Counsel Center’s Business Contracts. This is a gold mine of contracts and sample contract language. And since it’s on Findlaw, it’s all free. Hidden in the Research Tools section at the bottom is a link to Contracts. You can browse …
The Seventh Circuit is now offering opinions and audio oral arguments via RSS feed. It is the first federal court of appeals to do so. The Seventh Circuit’s Web site makes a combination of feeds available: one RSS feed of text opinions and two podcast RSS feeds of oral arguments. One podcast feed is a …
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve often heard me extol the virtues of RSS. But if you still aren’t sure what RSS is or how it can save you time and money, take a look at my article in the August Wisconsin Lawyer entitled, RSS: Making the Internet Subscribeable. In the …
Earlier this week, PBS’ History Detectives ran an episode on old 1914 Harley-Davidson motorcycle bearing the “Cross of Lorraine,” a historic symbol of French nationalism. According to Mary Koshollek, Director of Information and Records Services at Godfrey & Kahn, who told me about the broadcast, the owner thought it may have been involved in WWI, …
This morning I learned about two neat collaborative office tools: Writely – Word Processor (from Boing Boing): Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything most things Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). …
ALSO!, or American Law Sources Online, has long been one of my favorite Web sites. If you are looking for free sources of primary law in any federal or state jurisdiction, ALSO! is the place to go. But I recently learned that ALSO! has a full list of Uniform Laws & Model Acts too, along …