Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 is a lot of great legal information on the Internet, but it’s important that you know how to find it …
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 programs, developed by the Dane County Bar Association and the UW Law School, are designed to assist self-represented litigants at …
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 information for public viewing, including register of actions, calendars, judgments, and orders and notices prepared by the court. Note that …
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 all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose. This …
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 Bev that the Personalized Lawyer Figurines are particularly cool. But why should lawyers get all the cool gifts? So – …
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 excellent sources of in-depth, non-partisan information. Unfortunately, while the taxpayer-funded CRS reports are unclassified, they do not become public until …
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 of any individual who borrows or uses the library’s documents or other materials, resources, or services may not be disclosed …
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]
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 site: Georgetown, November 1967. Cantankerous Judge Francis Biddle, once Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Attorney General, must hire yet another new secretary …
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 system.” According to The Tribune, only about one percent of felony cases in La Crosse County make it to trial …