Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
It’s time to nominate your favorite legal support staff for the 2010 Wisconsin Law Journal Unsung Heroes awards. Categories include: * Legal Secretary * Paralegal * Law Librarian * Firm Administrator * Human Resources * IT Specialists * Legal Marketing * Court Clerk * Court Reporter * Lifetime Achievement Download and mail the PDF nomination …
From The New York Law Journal via Law.com: Last April, a judicial hearing officer relied on a woman’s “sworn testimony” from an appearance on “The People’s Court” to determine that the woman had not lived with her recently deceased mother and therefore did not have succession rights to her apartment. In an order released this …
Are government employees’ personal e-mails considered public records? No, according to an opinion by the Wisconsin Supreme Court last Friday. From Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District: In the present case, the court is asked to decide whether the contents of government employees’ personal e-mails (that is, e-mails not related to government business) should be …
From the State Bar of Wisconsin News: A petition filed on Sept. 25 with the Wisconsin Supreme Court aims to extend the “diploma privilege” to graduates of all ABA-approved law schools or abolish it entirely. Petitioner Steven Levine, a past State Bar of Wisconsin president, and 70 other State Bar members seek to amend SCR …
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On Wednesday, President Obama nominated UW–Madison Law School professor Victoria Nourse to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. From the White House Press Release: Professor Victoria F. Nourse is the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where she joined the faculty in 1993. A prolific scholar with wide-ranging …
On Friday, October 8th, 2010, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host a day-long educational institute at the newly remodeled Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change and LLAW is very pleased to have Professor Robert C. Berring, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Milwaukee Public Library announced today that they now provide an online version of “Foundations in Wisconsin.” Many attorneys who work with nonprofits are very familiar with this directory published by Marquette University. Information available includes details on officers and directors of the foundation, number and amounts of …
According to the Wisconsin State Bar, the Books UnBound electronic library is now complete. See the full list of titles. The Books UnBound product launched in April, but not all of the titles were available yet. They have since all been loaded, tested and are ready to go.
The Wisconsin Office of the Secretary of State maintains a digital archive of state municipal records – some more than 100 years old. Records from Wisconsin’s towns, villages, cities and counties include incorporation papers, charters, annexations, corporate boundaries, maps and litigation correspondence. For example, see this 1921 map of the Original City of Madison with …