Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
One of my favorite sites for researching law on the Internet is American Law Sources Online (ALSO). ALSO has compiled an outstanding, well organized collection of links to freely available primary and some secondary legal resources for federal and state law. It includes case law, statutes, local ordinances, administrative code, forms, research guides, and more. …
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau publishes Governing Wisconsin, a series of brief discussions of how government works in Wisconsin. The guides explain such things as legislative rules, the Wisconsin Idea, forms of local government, open meeting law, redistricting, due process and more.
Thanks to WI Ct of Appeals Judge Daniel Anderson for alerting me to March of the Librarians on YouTube. A parody of March of the Penguins, this mockumentary follows librarians at the ALA Midwinter conference. I especially liked the part about the male librarians with their “fabulous facial plumage,” the “tote-rollers,” and the occasional “hipster …
In contrast to Governor Doyle’s recent budget proposal, Odd Wisconsin has a bit about Wisconsin’s first budget. So, let’s see… $25 billion in 2007, for a single year’s operation of state government, works out to be $63,493,150 per day; or about $12.37 per day per person (using the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimate of 5,536,201). …
Electronic legal research can be very expensive. Fortunately, there are a few lower cost options out there, including Loislaw and Versuslaw. There is a nice short article comparing the two in the February 2007 edition of The CRIV Sheet (which is an insert in AALL Spectrum). When looking at your research options, Loislaw and Versuslaw …
Above the Law has launched its latest hotties contest – this time their are looking for hot law librarians. I love it. And UW Law School folks: take a look at the familiar face on the Law School Dean hotties. Source: Depraved Librarian
Justia has launched a database of recently filed Federal District Court civil cases. You can browse by browse by state and/or type of lawsuit or view all recent cases. Search by party name, jurisdiction, type of lawsuit, and within a given date range. BeSpacific reports that according to Justia’s Tim Stanley, there are currently “over …
A colleague sent me a link to this awesome YouTube video, Introducing the Book. Think early – really early – help desk. I laughed out loud.
Consortium is a new law journal that “aims to explore the less-than-scholarly side of the law in an entertaining and hopefully humorous way. You’re not going to find long diatribes about the recent disposition of some obscure case in some far-off jurisdiction. Instead, the diatribes focus on the social aspect of the law, law school, …
Paul Bush of Legal Dockets Online has compiled a list of the courts not using CM/ECF. CM/ECF allows courts to accept filings and provide access to filed documents over the Internet via PACER. He writes: Since CM/ECF systems have been successfully implemented throughout the U.S., some researchers incorrectly assume that all case dockets and filings …