“Louis Butler Jr., a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and the first African American to sit on the state’s highest court, will teach at the University of Wisconsin Law School as Justice in Residence beginning …
Month: September 2008
Site Pays Students to Share Notes
The UW Madison Daily Cardinal reports on a new website which pays students for note-taking. Knetwit, the creation of former Babson College fraternity brothers Ben Wald and Tyler Jenks, encourages college students to upload and …
Pretrial Discovery Affected By Federal Rule Amendment
From the U.S. Courts Newsroom: A new Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was enacted on September 19, focusing on inadvertent disclosure of attorney-client privileged material. The new law limits the consequences of inadvertent disclosure, potentially …
Advice on Blogging for Attorneys
Kevin O’Keefe, Wisconsin native and president of LexBlog, has written an excellent article on blogging in this month’s Wisconsin Lawyer. He discusses the benefits of blogging, offers advice for how to get started and what …
Univ. of Michigan Installs Espresso Book Printing Machine
The University of Michigan Shapiro Library is the first university library to install the Espresso Book Machine. The book print machine produces paperback books on demand. From the press release: The book machine, located in …
New UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
From the latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series as published by SSRN. Who Says Shari’a Demands the Stoning of Women? A Description of Islamic Law and Constitutionalism by Asifa …
SnackUpon Creates Suggestions RSS Feed Based on Delicious Bookmarks
SnackUpon creates a customized RSS feed that delivers content you might like based on your Delicious bookmarks. Read more at Lifehacker. I was curious about this so I created and subscribed to a feed based …
AALL Spectrum Blog
Editor Mark Estes has launched the AALL Spectrum Blog, “a tool to continue the conversation about law librarianship and the opportunities we face.” AALL Spectrum is the monthly magazine of the American Association of Law …
"We Expect to See the Wholesale Disappearance of Materials on Federal Agency Web Sites"
“Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post …
WI Courts Introduce New, Interactive Small Claims Website
The Wisconsin court system has created a new, interactive small claims website for the public. This user-friendly program is intended to provide an inexpensive alternative for people in need of small claims assistance but who …