Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Justia reports that Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Committee has unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes. See more about the decision, including video, from PublicResource.org. For more on the ORS copyright claims, see my earlier posts from April and May .
Last week, the WI Court of Appeals filed a petition with the Supreme Court for rules changes seeking mandatory electronic filing of all appellate briefs and no-merit reports. The proposed rule changes would also also permit, but do not require, the filing of an electronic copy of the appendix. Source: Milwaukee Federalists
The next time you need to take your car in for repair, check out RepairPal, a new site offering “independent and unbiased repair estimates and user ratings and reviews” of auto repair shops. For example, I learned that an AC recharge for our minivan should cost between $223 and $269. Go to know so that …
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb granted class action status to a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s policy of allowing in-state law graduates to become lawyers without passing the bar exam. Anyone who applies to practice law in Wisconsin within 30 days of graduating from a law school outside the state can join the lawsuit. …
In a new career alternatives feature, Above the Law examines law librarianship. A bit snarky, but pretty much on the money. Worth a look if you’re thinking about a career change. Selections from the AALL Salary Survey are reprinted to answer “the $64,000 question: what’s the pay like?”
Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an interesting article about how SSRN rankings have affected legal academia. Social Science Research Network [is] an increasingly influential site that now offers nearly 150,000 full-text documents for downloading… the texts include pens
Law Librarians: Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the AALL Computing Services-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of …
According to Wisconsin Technology News, Health and Human Services has named named Madison as one of 12 areas that will take part in five-year national Medicare demonstration project to evaluate whether electronic medical records really do improve the quality of health care. Read more from WTN.
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: Looking for documents from a defunct government agency? You might dig it up at the CyberCemetery. This website is a collaboration of the University of North Texas and the GPO. The site is described as “an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct …
The Capital Times reports that Wisconsin residents can now add their cell phone numbers to the state’s No Call List. The next list will go into effect in October. To sign up or for more information, call 1-866-9NO-CALL (1-866-966-2255) or visit https://nocall.wisconsin.gov/web/home.asp.