Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In the wake of moves by two big-name tech bloggers, Law.com has an interesting article on how to value a law firm blogger. Note the response by Kevin O’Keefe: “These recent moves should be wake up calls to law firms with high-profile lawyer bloggers. Many of your high-paid marketing and PR people have not a …
A while back I mentioned that I gave a talk about blogs at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Meeting in Montreal last month. Upon the request of the editor of the Risk Management Memo, I’ve turned that presentation into an article entitled, Blogs: The Hot New Technology for Communication and Information. The article discusses …
From Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs: 21% of senior executives reports are reading business-related blogs at least once a week. This per a 2006 State of Corporate Blogging Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by Makovsky + Company, one of the largest global independent public relations firms in the U.S. Here’s a pdf …
From BeSpacific: Search Full Text of EDGAR Filings From Last 2 Years SEC: “This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last two years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing. We are still developing this …
Google UncleSam is now Google U.S. Government Search. From Google: Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web — …
Nichole, a Madison librarian who volunteers with the Jail Library Group has compiled a fascinating Flikr collection of “things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the [Dane County] jail where I volunteer” This is a really insightful collection. There are snippets of letters, poems, drawings, etc. Worth a look. …
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. & …