Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula offers tips for researching layoff information. One of the databases she mentions is JWT Inside’s Layoff Report Database. The researcher can search by week or keyword. The weekly report lists the various companies, locations, affected workforce, news source, and date of the layoffs for that particular week. …
Updated: 7/22/2013 I’ve recently been made aware of the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rules Home Page. Wisconsin state agencies value your involvement in agency decision-making and have created this website to make it easy for you to monitor and participate in their rulemaking. At this site, you can: Search for rules View the status of …
Madison Magazine ranks the city’s top lawyers in their January issue. Madison Magazine’s 2009 Top Lawyers peer survey reveals who the legal eagles in our community would turn to if they needed some advice. With more than 2,300 Dane County lawyers in thirty-eight specialties, we wanted to know: who can you turn to in a …
An article in Law.com’s Legal Technology section offers some thoughts on the legal ramifications of Twitter use. Lawyers caution… that Twitter carries a number of legal risks. Users posting tweets from corporate networks could expose company secrets. These conversations, lawyers note, are legally binding and subject to the legal rules of electronic discovery, which means …
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has taken the first step toward creating a nonprofit organization to provide more legal help for the poor, reports JS Online. “This month, the court voted 6-0, with Justice David Prosser abstaining, to direct its staff to work with the State Bar of Wisconsin and other officials on a draft order authorizing …
Here’s the latest scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Financing the Next Silicon Valley, Darian M. Ibrahim, University of Wisconsin Law School Fair Taxation as a Human Right, Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School In Democracy’s Shadow: Fences, Raids and the Production of Migrant Illegality, …
GPO Access has recently conducted a comparison of legislative resources available in its collection with those in other government websites and commercial databases such as Westlaw, LexisNexis and HeinOnline. The report concludes that “one of the primary advantages of GPO Access is the number of online legislative resources it provides to the public.” The comparison …
An Australian court has ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. The courts already allow service by email and text message. Read more from the Sydney Morning Herald: “Australian courts are regarded as being amongst the most technologically advanced in the world, and this innovation goes to further …
A few months ago I posted about how you can search people’s Twitter posts for certain keywords and track future posts with a RSS feed. Now I’ve learned of a new service called Twilert which allows you to receive such alerts via email. The the advanced options available in the following image. Now why would …
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, library patrons can download digital audio books to their mp3 players or burn the files to an audio CD. And just recently announced, the books are now available for iPods and iPhones. Previously, the system only worked with Microsoft-based mp3 players. This example shows the variety of formats …