I received an email yesterday from Frank Bennet who has been leading the development of a Bluebook citation style for Zotero. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite …
Month: June 2010
Changes to the 19th Edition of the Bluebook
A new edition of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation was released in May. Pace Law Library has compiled a list of the changes to the 19th edition and the associated rule numbers. Note …
Migration from GPO Access to FDsys Almost Complete
The migration of government content from GPO Access to FDsys is almost complete. As of this month, 29 of the 40 collections have been migrated with the remaining collections set to make the move in …
How Much Does PACER Actually Cost?
Less than 18% of the total income generated by PACER fees relate directly to the cost of running the service – that’s according to a new working paper by Steve Schultze, Associate Director of the …
Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls with E-documents: Metadata
Metadata is a topic of increasing importance to legal practitioners in sending and receiving electronic documents. The latest issue of InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin has a good article outlining the basics of …
Are All Librarians "Good Librarians"?
Dodge County Circuit Court Judge Steven Bauer contacted me this morning to let me know he’d linked to WisBlawg on his blog, To Speak the Truth. It’s quite a nice post about his positive experiences …
Map of Restaurants Recommended by UW Law School Faculty & Staff
I don’t think that I ever realized how many great restaurants there are in the Madison area. See the many recommendations from our UW-Madison Law School faculty and staff on the this Google map. From …
Minnesota's Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board Addresses Ethical Obligations regarding Metadata
From ABA Site-tation: At the end of March, Minnesota’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board approved a new ethics opinion addressing lawyers’ ethical obligations regarding metadata. Opinion No. 22, available in PDF format on the LPRB’s website, …