Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Interested in keeping tabs on proposed legislation or regulations in your area of law? The State of Wisconsin offers free services for monitoring both legislation and administrative regulations. Legislation: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification System allows anyone the opportunity to follow legislation by receiving daily or weekly emails for specific legislative activities. You can choose items …
The UW Law Library hosts a collection of Wisconsin Briefs from Nov 1992 to July 2009. Note that the database will be unavailable for several hours between 8:00 and noon this Saturday, January 22nd as we migrate it to a new server. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The current issue of InsideTrack from the State Bar of Wisconsin has a useful video on estate planning for digital assets. Description: After death, will family members know how and where to access sentimental online family photos or other heirlooms? What about online bank, credit card, investment, and social media accounts? In this video, Nate …
From WisBar Inside Track: The 2009-10 Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations are available in hardcover and softcover versions. The hardcover book costs $72 plus $7 for shipping; the softcover book costs $58 plus $6 for shipping. Please add applicable tax. Unless exempt by law, all sales are subject to 5 percent state sales tax and, where …
The Milwaukee Justice Center, a service of the Milwaukee Bar Association and the Marquette University Law School, offers assistance to low-income self-represented litigants through court-based self-help desks and legal resources. Legal advice is not provided, but extensive guides with links to legal forms help users navigate issues such as divorce, child custody, child support, landlord/tenant …
As you may already know, Google Scholar offers an excellent collection of free federal and state case law for the following years of coverage. Sup. Ct. pre 1776? Fed. Circ. Cts. 1924? Fed. District Cts. varies States vary (most mid 1950s?) Using the advanced search page, you’ve always been able to limit your search to …
The State Bar of Wisconsin has compiled a handy list of legislative leadership and committee appointments for both the Senate and Assembly. A full list of 2011-12 Senate and Assembly members is available from the Wheeler Report.
The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a collection of state publications in PDF format from about 2000 to the present. The documents made available through the Wisconsin Document Depository Program whose purpose is to preserve and make available a record of major state government program and to assure the availability of state publications for use by …
The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a collection of state publications in PDF format from about 2000 to the present. The documents made available through the Wisconsin Document Depository Program whose purpose is to preserve and make available a record of major state government program and to assure the availability of state publications for use by …
City or county ordinances used to be very difficult to find, but more and more local governments are putting their laws online making access much easier. The Wisconsin State Law Library has compiled a very complete list of links for Wisconsin Ordinances and Codes. For other states, see the Local Laws entry in Zimmerman’s Research …