Tomorrow morning I’m speaking at the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference. My presentation is entitled Building Better Briefs: Legal Research and Citation Tools on the Internet. I placed the slides up on Scribd. There …
Month: November 2007
UW Legal Assistance Programs Profiled in The Third Branch
Several of the UW Law School’s legal clinics/projects are featured in the latest edition of The Third Branch. They include: Family Law Assistance Center Small Claims Clinic Family Court Assistance Project Restraining Order Clinic These …
Minnesota's Answer to CCAP – Statewide Electronic Case Records
Minnesota has recently introduced a statewide electronic case records service called MPA Remote, which is short for Minnesota Trial Court Public Access Remote view. Similar to Wisconsin’s CCAP system, MPA Remote displays trial court case …
Public.Resource.Org & Fastcase Partner to Offer Free Archive of Federal Case Law
From the press release: Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and …
My Holiday Gift Guide for Librarians
It’s Black Friday and I seem to have gift buying on the brain. Thanks to Bev Butula for sharing with me the Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers. Lots of fun stuff — I agree with …
Open CRS Offers Meta Search of CRS Reports
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the United States Congress. The reports issued by CRS, which are created to inform members of Congress on issues of public policy, are …
New WI Law Clarifies to Whom Library Records May be Released
Wisconsin Senate Bill 214, which clarifies to whom library records may be released, was signed into law by the Governor last week as Wisconsin Act 34. The law states that library records “indicating the identity …
Key Number Searching in Westlaw Just Got Easier
From CM Law Library Blog: At last! You can now easily get to the digest topic outline on Westlaw via a link on the top of the Westlaw page that says “Key Numbers”. [Read more]
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Takes on a Legal Theme with "Trying"
Check out JS Online for a review of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre production, Trying, “about a crusty and cranky old lawyer butting heads with a determined secretary from the Canadian prairies.” From the MCT Web …
La Crosse Tribune Looks at Plea Agreements
The La Crosse Tribune is running a series of articles on plea agreements – “how plea agreements are forged, why they have become a fixture in the courts and what they bring to our legal …