Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This morning, Anne Reed of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC appeared on Lake Effect, a program on Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM. In the ten minute interview, Anne discusses the phenomenon of blogging jurors. Really interesting stuff. In case you missed it, the interview is available on the Lake Effect Web site. For more on …
Determining if and how a Web site has changed can be an important factor in litigation. Many of you probably know about a wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine which archives sites and displays them as they were at various points in time. But, but did you know that there were other tools that do …
About a week ago, the Wisconsin Law Journal unveiled a new Web site. Besides a sleek new look, WLJ has introduced some sweet new features including several new blogs and a handful of RSS feeds. In his introductory post, Managing Editor, Tony Anderson explains: New features will include a variety of blogs touching on a …
Weirdest Cases: The Times (of London) Online is kicking off it’s new column, Weird Cases, with a list of the columnist’s top twenty “favourite bizarre disputes, prosecutions and lawsuits.” Number one? Right here in Wisconsin, a Fond du Lac man “sued a television company for making his wife fat and transforming his children into ‘lazy …
“A pending bill in the Legislature could have a broad silencing effect on Wisconsin open records law,” says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Assembly Bill 522 would shield from all open records requests certain law-enforcement records not “in the custody of an authority that performed the service or conducted the investigation” – wording that the head …
There is a service called Numbr (formerly Craigsnumber) that provides free disposable phone numbers. You say how long you need the number (one hour to one month) and tell it to what real phone number(s) you want it forwarded. There are some additional advanced options and you can terminate or extend the number if desired. …
Have a dissertation looming in your future and don’t know where to start? Check out the Dissertation Calculator developed by the UW Madison CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing). Simply enter your start date and target end date. The calculator breaks down the dissertation process into manageable deadlines and provides you with important resources …
From the Christian Science Monitor: This week the US Sentencing Commission, with little fanfare, officially reduced its recommended sentences for crack-related offenses. The commission announced last spring that it intended to make the change, and Congress had until Nov. 1 to stop the move. It didn’t, and the revised guidelines became effective Thursday. Thanks to …
A free Professional Ethics CLE Program will be held at the UW Law School this Wednesday, November 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 P.M in room 7200 (Lubar Commons). Three Ethics CLE credits for Wisconsin lawyers will be available. No registration is required.
Two business databases available to public library card holders have just been announced: Value Line from the Milwaukee Public Library Value Line, a popular online database for investors, is now available remotely through the Milwaukee Public Library’s Website. All City of Milwaukee residents with valid library cards can use this great resource. To access this …