Year: 2006

Law Reviews & Journals on the Web

Thanks to Wendy Nobunaga from the USC Law Library for compiling a list of law reviews and journals on the Web. Codes indicate what is available at each site: F = Full-text A = Abstracts T = Table of Contents S = Subscription Information The list is divided into: general law reviews subject specific law …

Turn Web page into a PDF Document

HTML2PDF is a nifty little tool that converts any HTML webpage into a PDF document. See today’s WisBlawg in PDF for example. I can imagine a few of uses for this tool: 1) To digitally archive a web page as it exists today; or 2) to capture a web page for an off-line presentation; 3) …

Article: Looking for Info on Wisconsin Legislation

Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Carol Schmitt has written an excellent article on Looking for Info on Wisconsin Legislation. It appears in the May 2006 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer. The piece looks at some of the major changes and updates to the Wisconsin Legislature Web site and introduces researchers to additional sites such …

Freed With the Help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Chris Ochoa Earns His Law Degree

UPDATE: ABC News selects Chris Ochoa as “Person of the Week” ———————————- JS Online has a nice story about University of Wisconsin law student, Chris Ochoa, who this weekend earned his law degree, becoming only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence to do so. He was freed from …

Freed With the Help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Chris Ochoa Earns His Law Degree

UPDATE: ABC News selects Chris Ochoa as “Person of the Week” ———————————- JS Online has a nice story about University of Wisconsin law student, Chris Ochoa, who this weekend earned his law degree, becoming only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence to do so. He was freed from …

Blogs as Evidence

Ken Strutin, Director of Legal Information Services for the New York State Defenders Association, has compiled a nice summary of how blogs have been considered by the courts. The article, “Blogs Raise New Questions About the Line Between Public and Private,” appears in the Technology Today section (page 5) of the May 9, 2006 New …

Wall Street Journal & Other Factiva Content Finally Available to Law Schools via LexisNexis

Good news for law students, faculty, and staff: the Wall Street Journal and other Factiva content is finally available via LexisNexis to law schools. From the press release: Beginning May 12, your students, faculty and library staff will have access to the following Factiva sources: Publication Name: – Asian Wall Street Journal – Barron’s – …

Blogs v. Intranets for Internal Staff Communication

As a follow-up to my presentation on blogs at their annual meeting last week, the Association of Legal Administrators invited me to participate in a forum on blogs. I’d like to share one of the questions I received: Question: If a blog is as good as an intranet for communicaions with staff, why not stick …

Trading in Your Old Cell Phone for Cool Stuff

So you just got a cool new cell phone, but what do you do with the old one? Trade it in for something you want with these services: – RIPMobile From their site: You tell us what old (and not-so-old) mobile phones you have sitting in a drawer or on a shelf around the house. …

Podcasting Legal Guide

From Law Dawg Blawg: Colette Vogele and Mia Garlick are the authors of Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution (2006) (38 p., PDF), published under a Creative Commons license. According to the Introduction, “[t]he purpose of this Guide is to provide [readers] with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to …