Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
On Friday, October 8th, 2010 the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host an all-day educational institute for librarians at the new Marquette University Law School building, Eckstein Hall, in Milwaukee, WI. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change. Registration will cost $100, and includes continental breakfast and lunch. The dual-track event …
From WKOW TV news: State attorneys have settled a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s policy of allowing in-state law students to practice without passing the bar exam. The state has agreed to pay Corrine Wiesmueller $7,500 to drop the lawsuit. Wiesmueller and her husband, Christopher, alleged Wisconsin’s so-called diploma privilege violates the federal Commerce Clause by giving …
Yesterday the US Supreme Court launched a new website – complete with a new look and new URL. The Court will now be hosting the site in-house at www.supremecourt.gov. Previously, it had been hosted by the Government Printing Office (GPO) at www.supremecourtus.gov. The GPO URL will redirect users to the new site through July 1, …
Bubbl.us is a simple, free web application that lets you create mind maps for organizing and brainstorming ideas. Mind maps are great for visually laying out ideas and seeing the connections between them. Here is an extremely simple map that I did. As you can see, you can also get much more complex. Bubbl.us is …
The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved some changes to the PACER system to “improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users.” One change is regarding fees. Users will now not be billed “unless they accrue charges …
From Et Seq, The Harvard Law School Library Blog: Can’t get enough of Congress? Is Book TV your idea of Must-see TV? If so, you’ll be excited to learn that “virtually every minute” of C-SPAN’s archives for the last 23 years are now available at C-SpanVideo.org. The total? 160,000 hours.
PACER’s U.S. Party/Case Index has been replaced by a new search tool called PACER Case Locator. It appears that the underlying data is the same – Case Locator just offers improved search and display capabilities including the ability to: request lists of cases for a specified date range by court type; conduct searches based on …
On April 15, the Wisconsin State Bar will launch a new product called Books UnBound. This subscription database will contain content from CLE books published by the State Bar. Primary law links will point to Fastcase which is available to State Bar members. The initial library will include 29 titles, i.e. the majority of the …
Asifa Quraishi, UW Law School professor and founding member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers and the California group American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism, is part of the U.S. Delegation attending the 54th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She is one of only five Public Delegates from …
Last evening I had the treat of hearing Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley speak at a meeting of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin. Her topic was Wisconsin women’s legal history. Not only was the subject on of particular interest to me but Justice Walsh Bradley is a wonderful story teller and really …