Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 your research sources. Currently, Zotero only offers a beta version of the Bluebook citation style which is pretty limited. But, …
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 that many of the changes deal with electronic sources. Copies of the new edition are available from Hein for $32. …
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 the coming weeks. It was previously reported that migration would be complete by June 30, 2010. Due to the constraints …
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 Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Where does the rest go? Read the paper to find out. From the abstract: …
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 metadata and why attorneys should be concerned about it. Part II of this article, which will appear in the July …
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 with libraries and librarians as the following excerpt illustrates: I love libraries and librarians. I was going to write “good …
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 upscale dining to burger joints to chocolate shops, there is something for every taste. Enjoy! Below is a snap shot …
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, addresses the three primary metadata questions: what is a lawyer’s duty when sending electronic documents; what is a lawyer’s duty …