Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you have a Google account (like Gmail, Google News, etc.), you might be surprised to learn that Google is keeping track of your Web activity. We’re taking every day, every site, every search going back years (mine goes back to 2005). They call it your Web History. Here’s the explanation from Google: You know …
The Wisconsin State Law Library has recently begun offering remote access to Hein Online. This service is only available to firms or state agencies with less than 25 attorneys, however. If that’s you and you have a WSLL library card, you can access the full text law reviews and journals in Hein Online from anywhere. …
Sabrina Pacifici with help from the team over at Justia has launched a redesigned LLRX. They’ve done a great job of spicing up the look and feel to highlight the first rate content for which LLRX is so well known. Kudos all around.
Amanda Werhane over at Wendt Library Blog has compiled a useful list of library services available to UW alumni and Wisconsin residents. Check it out.
From today’s Capital Times: In celebration of Law Day, Dane County Bar Association members will be staffing an information table at the Dane County Legal Resource Center. Lawyers will answer questions about the law and provide information about legal forms from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and assistance will be available in Spanish from 9 …
The Shepherd Express, an alternative weekly Milwaukee newspaper, has announced the winnders in their Wonders of Wisconsin contest. Both natural and human-created wonders are listed. Looks like I need to do some in-state traveling this summer. Source: Check It Out
I know I’ve mentioned it a couple times before, but I wanted to give another plug for Current Law Journal Content (CLJC) from Washington and Lee Law School. With CLJC, you can search and subscribe to current tables of contents from over a thousand law journals (including Wisconsin Law Review, Wisconsin International Law Journal, and …
My colleague, Nancy Paul, shared this item of interest: This year the time and date three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May will be 02:03:04:05/06/07. This will never again happen.
I recently been notified that my article on the State of the Law Library Blogosphere was chosen as the winner of the ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award. I’m very honored to receive the award. Here’s the abstract: Although the legal and library literature is filled with information about the theoretical pros and cons of blog publishing, …
According to JS Online, the Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill (AB 217) which would allow cell phone users and small businesses to add their phone numbers to the state’s do-not-call list.