Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
PACER is now offering free access to opinions in federal district courts using CM/ECF version 2.4 or higher. CM/ECF is the Federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files System. This applies to the Eastern District of Wisconsin which uses CM/ECF Version 2.5. The Western District of Wisconsin, however, apparently does not use the CM/ECF system. The …
West has released Graphical Statutes for the USCA, offering “a visual timeline of a statute’s past, present and future, with links to all underlying documents.” Like graphical KeyCite, this flowcart-like display really helps me understand the big picture.
In going through some files, I found an old issue of Westlaw Password featuring this photo, circa 1986. Bring back any memories? I think that my parents got our first home computer around that time. It was an Atari which used our TV as a monitor and cassette tapes as storage media. Those were the …
An interesting article on courtroom technology appears in Law.com’s Small Firm Business. The author describes various technologies being used in the courtroom today and the benefits of a paperless presentation. Source: Legal Technology Blog
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Federal Register, our Documents Assistant, Margaret Booth, got a little creative. “In its first year back in 1936, the Register printed 2,620 pages. Today, nearly that many pages are published each week. Approximately 100 million Register documents are viewed annually over the Internet through GPO Access.” Source: ResourceShelf
The following is based on an article about evaluating information that I wrote for our Law School Newsletter a few years back: First the good news: Legal information may have three desirable characteristics – good, fast, and cheap. Now the bad news: You can only have two out of the three at one time. As …
Unshelved – Friday, March 10, 2006
The National Conference of State Legislatures has launched its first podcast. The Conference Report will cover the latest trends and developments from America’s state legislatures. Source: MyNCSL News, March 10, 2006
You decide what Einstein writes in the fun little web tool from Hetemeel.com. What text would you want to appear in the famous photo of Einstein writing the E=MC2 equation? I chose one of Einstein’s quotes.
Yesterday, I had a visit from fellow blogger, Compujurist.com’s Nerino Petro. Nerino is now the Practice Management Advisor for the Law Office Management Assistance program of the State Bar of Wisconsin. You might recognize him from the cover of the Feb. 2006 Wisconsin Lawyer. We talked about ways that law librarians can add value to …