Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Bev Butula’s recent column in InsideTrack introduces a couple of tools for scheduling meetings: Coordinating schedules when working with a group of individuals can be a time-consuming process. It often entails several email exchanges or numerous telephone calls. Many experience the problem arranging times to meet with co-counsel, committee members or social groups. There are …
“The Legislature is looking at republishing the state budget without one of Gov. Jim Doyle’s partial vetoes because the veto violated the state constitution,” reports JS Online. Legislative leaders did not want to try to override the veto — which requires a two-thirds vote — because they didn’t want to recognize it as valid… Leadership …
DomainNameNews reports on the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States. According to the story: Daniel Goncalves, the 25 year old law firm computer technician arrested on Thursday, reportedly hacked in to the Angel’s [the domain name owners] AOL email account, used that information to retrieve the login details for the …
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The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog features an interesting take on the debate over the usability of statutory history. The current debate centers on whether reliance on statutory history is consistent with a plain meaning analysis. Justice Roggensack has asserted, “statutory history is part of a plain meaning analysis because it is part of …
From Heidi Yelk’s Tech Tip in Brief in the latest WSLL @ Your Service: In case you missed it (as I did), Wisbar.org, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s website, now provides full text searching of Wisconsin Lawyer issues dating back to 1997. This can be a quick way to locate full text feature articles as …
Nicholas from Justia just let me know that case number searching is now available on Justia’s Docket Search. He was responding to an earlier WisBlawg post which indicated that case number searching was not available. His comment appears below: I just wanted to make one slight comment on Justia having no case number searching. Actually …
It’s time to nominate your favorite legal support staff for the 2009 Wisconsin Law Journal Unsung Heroes awards. Categories include: Secretary Paralegal Law Librarian Administrator Human Resources IT Specialists Marketers Court Staff For more information, see the Wisconsin Law Journal website. The nomination form is available there. The awards ceremony will be held November 13, …
In response to rising demand and rising cost, FreeCourtDockets has set a limit on the number of free dockets that users can obtain daily. From a recent email: The word has been quickly spreading about FreeCourtDockets, many people have been granted invite codes, and our costs have quickly risen. To manage these costs we have …
From The Third Branch, newsletter of the Federal Courts: The Judicial Conference has issued a series of “suggested practices” to assist courts in the use of Internet materials in opinions. The recommendations follow a pilot project conducted by circuit librarians who captured and preserved webpages cited in opinions over a six-month period…. In approving those …