Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Legal blogging expert, Kevin O’Keefe had this to say about the recent Blogger outages: I’d hate to be the law firm marketing professional telling the managing partner in a 500 lawyer firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues that ‘our 5 blog sites have been down for the day – but we got …
AELR Blog summarizes nicely a Law.com article on a recent AmLaw Tech survey. The results are based on a summer survey of 200 highest-grossing firms in the U.S. about technology trends and the products and services that they are using. AmLaw received 125 responses that offer insight into how firms are prioritizing their technology budgets …
There’s a new librarian in town… Ms. Dewey, who happens to be a fully animated search engine. As a source of amusement, it’s worth a visit – especially if you don’t mind being mocked. But if you are interested in quality search results, look elsewhere. Or you could ask a real librarian – and we …
“Join Denise Howell and the TWiL panel, including Cathy Kirkman, Ernie Svenson, and John Palfrey as they discuss breaking issues in technology law including patents, copyrights, and more.” What’s TWiL? This Week in Law, a new legal issues podcast.
Two new blogs: LexLibris, University of Minnesota Law Library Blawg Law School Innovation, A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network
Section 29.503(1)(d) of the Wisconsin statutes says quite clearly that many things, including crab, lobster, shrimp and a host of other delicacies, are in fact “seafood” under the law, “but not any canned fish or fish known as lutefisk.” From an interesting article in the Capital Times about how this law came to be. Nothing …
Today’s Odd Wisconsin describes Wisconsin’s first election in 1836. I thought that this was interesting: That first census taken in August 1836 was performed in order to identify voters. It found only 11,683 non-Indian residents within the bounds of today’s Wisconsin: Brown County – 2,706 Crawford County – 850 Iowa County – 5,234 Milwaukee County …
According to the October ABA Site-tation, the ABA is now selling iPods preloaded with CLE content. Video iPods for the Business Law and Labor and Employment Law Editions include video CLE programs. iPod nanos include audio CLE programs in Litigation, Antitrust Law, Estate Planning, Health Law and Real Property Editions. ABA-CLE also offers audio downloads …
From Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Jason Eiseman, Computer Automation Librarian at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, has produced an excellent 3 part screencast tutorial on RSS: 1. Introduction of RSS discusses importance of RSS and looks at an RSS feed. 2. How to set up an RSS aggregator and subscribe to RSS feeds. 3. Specific tools …
I give a lot of presentations and have learned that the receptiveness of the audience has a big outcome on the success of the presentation. This morning, it was my pleasure to speak at the Legislative Reference Librarians conference on the topic of Blogging in Libraries. They were a great audience who seemed genuinely interested …