Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Think tearing up those unwanted credit card applications is good enough? One man documents his adventures with The Torn-Up Credit Card Application. Find out what happened when he tore an application into small pieces, taped it back up, and mailed it in. Oh, and he changed the address and listed a cell phone number, too. …
According to the Boston Globe, blogs are essential to a good career. In a nutshell, the article advises that blogging helps a professional stand out among her peers. Employers regularly Google prospective employees to learn more about them. Blogging gives you a way to control what employers see, because Google’s system works in such a …
The other day, my husband and our toddler were comparing feet. “I wearin’ socks,” she said. “Yes, you are wearing socks,” he responded. Barefoot, he asked her, “Is Papa wearing socks?” “No,” she said, “Papa wearin’… toes.”
Last week, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin sponsored two events for library school students interested in learning about a career law librarianship. Thursday’s session was held in Madison and Friday’s was in Milwaukee. In addition to tours of a firm, court, and academic law library, students met with librarians over lunch to discuss the …
From EurekAlert (American Association for the Advancement of Science): Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the camera with which they were taken, in much the same way that …
Governor Doyle has proclaimed today, Monday, April 24 as AskAway Day in Wisconsin. AskAway is a new statewide virtual reference service. Live chat with a librarian using a very simple Web service. There is no need to download any chat software. AskAway is a member of the 24/7 Reference Consortium, a group of hundreds of …
The UW E-Business Consortium’s Corporate Weblogging Best Practices is a must for any firm or business that has a blog or is thinking about starting one. Actually, it’s worthwhile for any firm or business wanting to protect its reputation in the blogosphere. This paper is intended for various audiences including executives faced with the decision …
If you are a Trekkie like me, you might be interested in Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice. From the publisher’s site: Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice weds popular media with academic inquiry, by illustrating the connection between the future world of Star Trek and today’s American and international legal systems. Editors …
The folks who brought us NationMaster.com, have released a new tool called StateMaster.com, a statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on U.S. states. This is pretty sweet. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can find lots of stats, complete with charts and maps. Some of …
Who owns the moon? Now that would have been a good Stump the Librarian question. From the Moritz Legal Information Blog: The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is a good place to start research on outer space law issues. Its International Space Law website has links to treaties, selected national laws, UN …