Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
FedCtRecords is a iPhone/iPad app which allows registered PACER users to search and retrieve documents. It is free for a limited time. According to the support page, you can: * Search Attorney and Party names within a District Court. * Add Attorney information to the Contacts Application. * Save multiple cases for quick retrieval. * …
Earlier this month, Portage County joined Wisconsin’s Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) electronic case-management system. Since it was the last of Wisconsin’s 72 counties to join, CCAP now has complete statewide integration. For more information, see The Third Branch.
According to the Law Library Directors’ listserv, Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) will no longer be available through LexisNexis at the request of the publisher. It is unknown whether it will continue to be available on Westlaw. ILP indexes English language legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New …
CAPTCHAs are those distorted letters that you have to enter after some internet transactions to verify that you’re actually a human. I recently learned that some CAPTCHAs are being used to help digitize old printed material by asking users to decipher scanned words from books that computerized optical character recognition failed to recognize. That is …
Did you know that the UW Law Library has both a Facebook page and a Twitter feed? Follow us to learn about library announcements, special hours, new publications, etc. Note that the Twitter feed is the most comprehensive way to follow us since it incorporates posts from both WisBlawg and Facebook, as well as alerts …
I’ve mentioned several times how much I like and use Zotero, the “powerful, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.” Capturing citation information from your computer has always been easy, but now there are some new mobile apps for Zotero that allow you …
On April 26, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court approved restyled amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence. The amendments became effective today, December 1, 2011. For more information about the restyling, see The Third Branch. They are available online at Cornell’s LII. Apparently the uscourts.gov website has not yet been updated. Hat tip to my …
The 2011-2012 State of Wisconsin Blue Book is now available in print and online from the Legislative Reference Bureau. According to the LRB, “the Blue Book is the primary one-volume reference source about the state, documenting the organization of the state’s three branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial).” Each edition of the Blue Book …
Re-posted from a UW Law School news article by Eric Taylor: Recently retired Professor Ralph Cagle has gifted the library with his personal collection of materials chronicling the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The collection includes a great many books, not only for adults, but a fair number of children’s books, and DVDs as …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. The Meaning of ‘Enterprise,’ ‘Business,’ and ‘Business Profits’ under Tax Treaties and Domestic Tax Law: U.S. Report by Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School Yariv Brauner, University of Florida – Levin College of Law Defining Innocence …