Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of the Wisconsin Supreme Court has written a piece for the International Judicial Monitor describing her experience at the first Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law and International Courts at The Hague, Netherlands last September. “It was simply the best judicial education opportunity that I have ever experienced,” she writes. …
Reuters has a nice story on the value librarians – this time it’s the information professionals at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who provide searches for cancer patients. 95% of patients surveyed indicated that the librarian had provided them with some new information. From the article: “This demonstrates,” said [Librarian Ruti] Volk, “that …
On Saturday, WisBlawg celebrated its second birthday. No one brought in a birthday cake, but – hey – there was some coffee cake in the staff lounge this morning. I’ll take it.
Google has revved up it’s blog search engine with the addition of date restrictors. Go to the Advanced Blog Search page to search posts written within a specific date range. While Google blog search is still my most often used blog search tool, I agree with ResearchBuzz that it could benefit from some of the …
If you’ve ever compiled a state legislative history, you know that determining legislative intent can be difficult. It looks like researchers may have another source from which to draw, a blog – at least in Utah. From Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: With the launch of this “semi-official” blog, The Senate Site, Utah’s state Senate became the …
“If MySpace is where teens and college students meet and mingle, Lawbby says it is “where lawyers mingle,” whether for business or pleasure. Like MySpace, users can create their own profiles and groups, post photos and create blogs.” – Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites It looked interesting, so I gave it a whirl. If you decide to …
From The Third Branch: Dodge County Judge Andy Bissonnette reports on the remarkable effect of a plate of treats in small claims court. Check out the P.S. – too funny.
From the Wisconsin Court System’s The Third Branch: The Director of State Courts Office in April published the first Hmong-English legal glossary in the United States. It defines more than 800 common court terms and suggests equivalent Hmong phrases for many of them. . . The glossary defines general court terms and specific terms for …
It seems that LexisNexis has unveiled some Canadian RSS feeds, including new Butterworths Titles, The Lawyers Weekly (headlines from the weekly legal newspaper), Supreme Court of Canada Service (case digests) and more. U.S. feeds are available from LexisNexis Mealeys, including general news, legal trends, and numerous Mealey’s litigation reports. Now if only Lexis (and Westlaw) …
I’ve been a Skype user for a while. Skype (rhymes with “type”) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network. Basically, it allows you to call people for free using your computer to connect to theirs. See my earlier post. Now Skype has announced that you can also use your computer to call any landline …