Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
There is an interesting story in this week’s New York Times about a robbery suspect cleared because of his Facebook alibi. His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about the Facebook entry, which was made at the time of the robbery. The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook to verify that …
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium has recently added text eBooks to their Digital Download Center, which already contains digital audio books. See the screen shot below. No eBook reader is required to view the eBooks – any computer (Windows or Mac) will do. But they will also work with a Sony Reader, though unfortunately not …
From Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch: In United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2), a federal court in Georgia ruled that Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits “tweeting” from the courtroom and that Rule 53 does not unconstitutionally restrict freedom of the press…. The immediate result of the court’s decision is …
Traveling this holiday season? Then you may be very pleased to learn that Google is providing free WiFi at 47 participating airports and on every Virgin America flight. The service is already available and will run through January 15, 2010. Milwaukee is one of the airports available. See the Google site for a list others. …
LexisNexis has released its first iPhone app. From the announcement: It is called “Get Cases and Shepardize,” and (as you may have guessed) allows users to get cases from Lexis.com and Shepardize them to make sure what they have found is still good law. Users must have a current account with Lexis.com and a valid …
In her Wisconsin Law Journal column, Jane Pribek has compiled some law practice management tips culled from various legal blogs, including WisBlawg. She reviews “Firefox ‘add-ons’ for attorneys” for archiving and citing resources, as well as “miscellaneous money-savers” for directory assistance, marketing, and domain name registration. A very handy list of useful little tools.
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but it seems that Refworks now supports the Bluebook citation style. It must not have been too long ago since it’s not even showing up yet on the RefWorks Output Style list. If you’re not familiar with Refworks is one of several citation management applications. Other applications that …
From today’s Wheeler Report: The Assembly adjourned about 3:45 a.m. today, ending the floor sessions scheduled for 2009. Regular sessions will resume January 19, 2010. However, legislative leaders are expected to call lawmakers back to Madison in the coming weeks to take up any agreement that can be worked out between the Senate and Assembly …
The Legislative Reference Bureau has begun work on the Wisconsin Legislative Oral History Project. The project will include recorded interviews with former members of the Wisconsin Legislature, conducted by John Powell, the former Capitol reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio. The goal of the project is to record the oral histories of as many former legislators …
“Need to subpoena Facebook or Gmail? If you do, then you’ll need to know where to serve the subpoena.” Jon Groth’s Wisconsin Personal Injury Weblog points to a useful site called SEARCH which contains contact info for the legal departments of various Internet service providers (ISP) and similar information services. This information may be useful …