Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library semiannual used book sale starts today. The sale will be held for the March 21-24, at Memorial Library, 728 State St (room 116) Today is the preview sale ($5 admission) which will be held from 5-9 p.m. The regular sale, open to the public at no charge, …
Anne Reed, trial lawyer and jury consultant in the Milwaukee office of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC, has started a very well done blog entitled, Deliberations. The focus of the blog is juries, jury trials and jury selection. Not only is the blog well written, Anne does a great job of using images to attract …
A Lawyer Walks into a Bar is the name of a new lawyer documentary from Camel’s Back Films. According to the web site, “the documentary explores the influence of law and its practitioners on American culture, while following six characters as they do whatever it takes to become lawyers themselves. WARNING: the film contains karaoke, …
I recently learned about a fairly odd Google search feature. If you type in the name of a celebrity followed by the word “height,” Google will tell you how tall the person is (if they have the data). Thanks to one of my UW–Madison library colleagues for the tip – albeit an odd one.
University of Wisconsin Law School Prof Alan J. Weisbard has started the aptly named blog, The Wise Bard. He’ll be writing about “life and law and things that matter (to me): bioethics, the experience of illness, law and legal education, Jewish affairs, religion and state, contemporary culture, and, of course, politics.”
The Associated Press reports Courts To Test Offering Trial Tapes Online. The federal judiciary panel has approved a pilot program to make audio recordings of court proceedings available online for free. Although a court’s participation in the program is voluntary, U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, the executive committee chairman of the policy-making Judicial Conference, …
The latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series is now available via the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN) – Vol. 3, No. 1: March 16, 2007 Table of Contents: – “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited” HERBERT M. KRITZER University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Accounting and Information Systems …
Apparently, as of March 13th, the New York Times has opened up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses. See the sign up for more information. TimesSelect provides access to The NYT archive dating back to 1851, op-ed columnists, news tracker, and more.
Findlaw has a very interesting article on Why are Women — and Generation X and Y Attorneys Generally -Leaving Large Law Firms? The piece is a follow-up to a provocative article in the California Lawyer. From the article: On average, almost a fifth of associates (male and female) leave their law firms each year — …
Thanks to Blawg for the link to the Practical RSS video clip, An Introduction To RSS… In just seven minutes, the video does an excellent job of explaining what RSS is and how to use it. Well worth a few minutes of your time if you’ve been wanting to learn more about RSS. And after …