Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Milwaukee County Legal Resource Center has announced that their is still time to sign up for “Using Loislaw.com!” From WSLL @ Your Service: This class will be presented Thursday, September 28, 2006, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Milwaukee County Courthouse. State Law Librarian Jane Colwin will help you become familiar with the …
The Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter recently ran an article describing the interface changes to the LegalTrac database. What’s LegalTrac? A database containing citations for articles in law reviews, specialty law publications, bar association journals, legal newspapers, etc. from 1980 to the present. And it’s freely available to WSLL library card holders from their home …
The big news today is Google News Archive Search, a searchable archive of articles that, in some cases, date back 200+ years. Some publishing partners include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale. See New York Times article for more. I …
I received a postcard in the mail today for a free Webinar from Newsgator entitled, “RSS: The Future of Legal Information Delivery” It is scheduled for September 26th at 2:30 pm and September 27th at 12:30 pm. Topics: – Learn more about RSS – Discover how leading law firms and legal departments are using it …
The Seventh Circuit is now offering opinions and audio oral arguments via RSS feed. It is the first federal court of appeals to do so. The Seventh Circuit’s Web site makes a combination of feeds available: one RSS feed of text opinions and two podcast RSS feeds of oral arguments. One podcast feed is a …
Earlier this week, PBS’ History Detectives ran an episode on old 1914 Harley-Davidson motorcycle bearing the “Cross of Lorraine,” a historic symbol of French nationalism. According to Mary Koshollek, Director of Information and Records Services at Godfrey & Kahn, who told me about the broadcast, the owner thought it may have been involved in WWI, …
This morning I learned about two neat collaborative office tools: Writely – Word Processor (from Boing Boing): Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything most things Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). …
ALSO!, or American Law Sources Online, has long been one of my favorite Web sites. If you are looking for free sources of primary law in any federal or state jurisdiction, ALSO! is the place to go. But I recently learned that ALSO! has a full list of Uniform Laws & Model Acts too, along …
Some of the scarier databases that my colleague, Bev Butula, covered in the Internet Research Workshop were those in the Investigating Individuals section. One of these is Zillow.com. Zillow offers free, instant valuations and data for over 67 million homes nationwide. Not just that, but it shows them on a hybrid satellite image/street map. Take …
Repost / Reminder: If you are looking to brush up your Web-based legal research skills this summer, you might want to consider attending a one day seminar entitled, Internet Research in Wisconsin. The seminar, put on by Lorman Education Services, will be held in Brookfield on August 16th & again in Madison on August 17th. …