Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
If you’ve ever compiled a state legislative history, you know that determining legislative intent can be difficult. It looks like researchers may have another source from which to draw, a blog – at least in Utah. From Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: With the launch of this “semi-official” blog, The Senate Site, Utah’s state Senate became the …
“If MySpace is where teens and college students meet and mingle, Lawbby says it is “where lawyers mingle,” whether for business or pleasure. Like MySpace, users can create their own profiles and groups, post photos and create blogs.” – Robert Ambrogi’s Lawsites It looked interesting, so I gave it a whirl. If you decide to …
From The Third Branch: Dodge County Judge Andy Bissonnette reports on the remarkable effect of a plate of treats in small claims court. Check out the P.S. – too funny.
From the Wisconsin Court System’s The Third Branch: The Director of State Courts Office in April published the first Hmong-English legal glossary in the United States. It defines more than 800 common court terms and suggests equivalent Hmong phrases for many of them. . . The glossary defines general court terms and specific terms for …
I’ve been a Skype user for a while. Skype (rhymes with “type”) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network. Basically, it allows you to call people for free using your computer to connect to theirs. See my earlier post. Now Skype has announced that you can also use your computer to call any landline …
HTML2PDF is a nifty little tool that converts any HTML webpage into a PDF document. See today’s WisBlawg in PDF for example. I can imagine a few of uses for this tool: 1) To digitally archive a web page as it exists today; or 2) to capture a web page for an off-line presentation; 3) …
UPDATE: ABC News selects Chris Ochoa as “Person of the Week” ———————————- JS Online has a nice story about University of Wisconsin law student, Chris Ochoa, who this weekend earned his law degree, becoming only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence to do so. He was freed from …
Ken Strutin, Director of Legal Information Services for the New York State Defenders Association, has compiled a nice summary of how blogs have been considered by the courts. The article, “Blogs Raise New Questions About the Line Between Public and Private,” appears in the Technology Today section (page 5) of the May 9, 2006 New …
So you just got a cool new cell phone, but what do you do with the old one? Trade it in for something you want with these services: – RIPMobile From their site: You tell us what old (and not-so-old) mobile phones you have sitting in a drawer or on a shelf around the house. …
In WSLL’s monthly Tech Tip in Brief, Librarian Heidi Yelk offers recommendations on the Storage and Transfer of Large Files. There are dozens of free services on the web that allow users to upload files and make them available for later pick up. Maximum size limits vary. While some services allow free transfers up to …