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For those that occasionally need to make international phone calls but aren’t sure how to dial the number, see the International Dialing Codes guide from timeanddate.com Enter in your location, the location of where you are calling, and the phone number, then click on “Show Dialing Codes”. The next page shows you how to dial …
I took a walk over to the UW–Madison Botany Garden this afternoon and captured this photo of the pond. I believe that the beautiful bloom is an American lotus. [thanks to MB for the correction] The Botany Garden just just a short walk up the hill from the Law School. Thanks to our Documents Assistant, …
From Larry Bodine’s Professional Services Marketing Blog: My esteemed colleague Ed Poll of Venice, CA, author of the LawBiz Blog, calculated what may be the true cost of a lawyer writing a blog: $20K a year in time. [Ed warns that] “blogging is certainly not “easy” in the sense that it takes commitment to be …
John Mayer of CALI has posted the end-of-semester survey results for the Legal Education Podcasting Project. The survey is on the perceptions of law students enrolled in courses in which the professor also podcast the lectures. The results are quite interesting. Here are some of the findings: 38.4% of students listened to most or all …
There is a fascinating bit in Odd Wisconsin today. It seems “that for the first few years of Wisconsin’s existence, not even legislators could get their hands on a copy of the laws.” “They certainly tried. When Wisconsin was created as a territory on July 4, 1836, the laws of Michigan Territory as printed in …
The Wisconsin State Journal has an interesting article on one of the biggest trends to hit the Web: YouTube.com, an amateur video Web site. The paper reports that Madison film making duo Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan have had almost a million viewers download their YouTube short film “Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, Episode 1” …
Southern Illinois University Law Librarians Diane Murley and Amber Hewette have written a new book entitled, Law for the Layperson: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-help Law Books. It is available from Hein and Amazon. Nearly 1,000 self-help books and other resources are reviewed and classified by topic and jurisdiction. The book is intended to help …
The August edition of the DCLRC Docket is now available from the Dane County Legal Resource Center. It features a directory of free legal assistance programs located in the Dane Co. courthouse (215 South Hamilton Street). Restraining Order Clinic Mondays 9-Noon, Room 1001 (Next to Probate) The restraining order clinic is a University of Wisconsin …
From Today’s Onion*: Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. *Don’t you believe it. The Onion is fake – but darn funny. Thanks to Bill Ebbott for the tip.