Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Last week, the Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced that the University of Wisconsin Law Library was awarded a three year National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant in the amount of $239,087 to improve access to tribal laws. Our project, which was one of 38 projects that received an IMLS grant, is featured …
As of last week, PACER, the website of the U.S. Courts Public Access to Court Electronic Records program is featuring a new look. Note that the underlying PACER platform has not changed. According to LawSites: The new site includes features designed to make it easier for users to learn how to navigate the system, find …
Starting today, June 25th, items from the UW Law Library collection may be requested for pick up by appointment at Memorial Library from 12-4 pm Monday-Friday. Materials from Art, Memorial, Music, and Wisconsin Historical Society libraries may also be scheduled for pickup. Additional locations may be added later in the summer. Not all library materials are …
This summer, the State Bar of Wisconsin is launching a new online community of Wisconsin legal bloggers, called WisLawNOW. This community, which brings together blog content written by State Bar of Wisconsin members under a single website, has been developed in partnership with LexBlog, a legal blogging network. The State Bar is actively onboarding member-bloggers …
Many databases and professional networking sites feature author profiles that compile an author’s scholarship and provide impact metrics such as citations, downloads, views, etc. Among other things, these profiles can help authors engage with other scholars, identify new and seminal works, and enhance the visibility of and citations to their own scholarship. Some of these …
Last Friday, I attended a presentation by Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist at U.S. News on law school rankings at the Texas A&M University School of Law’s virtual Conference for Associate Deans. Among many other rankings-related topics, Morse provided an update on the upcoming U.S. News law school scholarly impact ranking. Here are a few …
In a special, remote-recorded episode of the WI Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library, we talk with the outgoing and incoming editors-in-chief of the Wisconsin Law Review which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year. Olivia Radics (outgoing EIC) and Anya Gersoff (incoming EIC) discuss the history of the journal, its recent publications, symposia, …
If you’ve been following WisBlawg, you know that I’ve periodically blogged about Badgerlink, a collection of amazing resources available for free to all state residents via Wisconsin’s libraries through funding from the DPI. Badgerlink databases contain over 11,000 periodical titles and over 700 newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many Wisconsin newspapers), …
Daniel P. Tokaji has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. From UW Law School News: He has been a professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law since 2003, serving as associate dean for faculty since 2018. Daniel Tokaji A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Tokaji …
According to a new study by Clio, law firms have seen a drastic deceleration in new matter creation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of 2020, the number of new legal matters being opened each week has decreased by more than 30% compared to a baseline average of weekly matters opened during the …