Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Black Friday will soon be upon us. The day after Thanksgiving is one of if not THE biggest shopping day of the year. If you’re planning to brave the crowds, it pays to do a little pre-planning so you can maximize your time by knowing where you can get the best deals. A site called …
A federal judge has disallowed attorneys to recover electronic legal research fees as part of a $31.5 million settlement against Coca-Cola. From Law.com: Among the expenses [U.S. District Court Judge Willis B.] Hunt disallowed was $93,960.67 for LexisNexis, Westlaw and Online Library Research, writing, “This Court is of the opinion that charging separately for use …
Google has recently released a LIFE magazine photo archive. The archive contains millions of photographs, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time. I particularly enjoyed this cover image titled “The Good Life in Madison, Wisconsin” dated September 6, 1948.
From Channel 3000: Wisconsin students can study for their SAT and ACT exams for free on a new state Web site. KnowHow2GoWisconsin announced Friday that its Web site now has tutorials and interactive practice sessions for the two college entrance exams as well as the graduate school exam known as the GRE. Milwaukee and Madison-area …
There’s a new addition to the Wisconsin blawgosphere – Wisconsin Lawyers Blog. Welcome! From the Wisconsin Law Journal: With 8 Wisconsin attorneys blogging at the site, in the categories of civil litigation, real estate, business law, personal injury, and intellectual property, it will be a great addition to the legal community.
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Alta Charo has been selected for President Elect Obama’s HHS agency review team. How exciting! Professor Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School’s Department …
I’m very honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Unsung Heroes award. The awards were presented at a luncheon at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee last Friday. The award I received was in the Law Library staff category. WLJ also recognized award winners in seven other …
From BBC News: Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org has released a new site that tracks the incidence of flu in the US based on terms used in Google searches. Is there anything that Google can’t do? Thanks to my colleague, Nancy Paul for the tip.
Kirk’s lawyer, Samuel T. Cogley, defends the value of law books over computerized research. Glad to know that they’ll still be around in the 23rd century. Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: Oct. 31 marked the State Bar of Wisconsin’s roll-out of its newest, and by far most significant, member benefit: It launched free access to Fastcase for bar members… A couple of months ago, I talked to law librarian Mary J. Koshollek, of Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee, about Fastcase …