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 …
Year: 2009
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium Now Offers Text EBooks
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 …
Federal Court Rules that Twitter Use in Courtroom Violates Fed. R. Crim. P.
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 …
Google Offers Free Wifi at Airports and Virgin American Flights During the Holidays
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 …
LexisNexis Releases iPhone App
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 …
Tips from Law Practice Management Blogs
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 …
Refworks Now Supports Bluebook Citation Style
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 …
Wisconsin Legislative Session Wrap-up
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 …
LRB Launches WI Legislative Oral History Project
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 …
ISP Legal Department Contact Info
“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 …