Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Judicial Council has presented petition to the state Supreme Court proposing “amendments to the Wisconsin rules of discovery in direct response to the unavoidable increase in the discovery of electronically stored information.” From the petition: A key goal of these proposed rule changes is to increase judicial efficiency in the circuit courts by …
From Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. I thought that this was great – a nice little lesson on copyright delivered in …
Google has recently launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. From the Google Blog: If you go to Google.com and type in [unemployment rate] or [population] followed by a U.S. state or county, you will see the most recent estimates. Once you click the link, you’ll go …
Earlier this month, West launched Black’s Law Dictionary for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The cost? A hefty $49.99, although that is still less than the print edition. This digital version of Black’s 8th edition offers audio pronunciations of selected legal terms. Thomson Reuters said in a statement that lawyers and law students can expect more apps …
Above the Law has developed a new site called Career Center for researching information about law firms. In Firm Snapshots, you can view profiles of individual firms, including Compensation, Associate Experience, Billable Hours, Face Time and Vacation Policy, Pro Bono Policy, Partnership Prospects, Benefits, Summer Associate Program, and links to Discussions on Above The Law. …
The Legal Workshop is a new, free, online magazine featuring articles based on legal scholarship published in the print editions of seven participating law reviews: Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review. According to a press …
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that students’ copyrights were not violated by plagiarism detection service TurnItIn, even though the works were archived. From ars technica: The federal decision (PDF) reads like a primer on “fair use,” which was the legal doctrine that TurnItIn relied upon for its activities. TurnItIn …
From the North Jersey Crime Examiner: A Bergen County [NJ] judge mistakenly let a collection company lawyer cover a gap in evidence against a credit-card holder by using a Wikipedia page, a state appeals court has ruled. “[I]t is entirely possible for a party in litigation to alter a Wikipedia article, print the article and …
Recent faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series in SSRN: Rediscovering the Lawyer School: Curriculum Reform in Wisconsin by Keith A. Findley, University of Wisconsin Law School Developmental States and the Legal Order: Towards a New Political Economy of Development and Law by David M. Trubek, …
I’ve been informed that some subscribers received the following error message this morning informing them that ” ‘University of Wisconsin Law School’ has changed.” We believe that this error was the result of some web server maintenance that the Law School IT staff performed last night. Everything should now be fixed. If you continue to …