Author: bjshucha

Two Rivers attorney, Donald Chewning, recently dropped me a line letting me know about his new blog about law in Wisconsin entitled, Diploma Privileged. Read what he has to say about it: Welcome to Diploma Privileged. This site was created to provide for a forum for discussion of Wisconsin legal issues. While there are a …

Earlier this week, The Washington Post ran an interesting story about “law readers”- people who study law in offices or judges’ chambers rather than classrooms. From the article: Fewer than 150 aspiring lawyers are getting their legal educations in programs that require no law school whatsoever, according to the bars of the states that allow …

Paula Seeger of the Dane County Legal Resource Center has compiled a very useful guide to Wisconsin local legal resources. The guide, which appears in the September 21, 2005 issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal, offers tips on locating ordinances, court rules, forms, historical resources and more.

Law Librarian, Carol Bannen, has written about “A New Knowledge Management Tool for Law Firms.” The article, which describes Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren’s experience with West KM, appears in the Summer 2005 issue of Class Action, the newsletter of the Wisconsin Association of Legal Administrators.

The Wheeler Report has long been an excellent source of information on Wisconsin bills and legislative activities. In addition to the subscription-based “print” edition, which is now fully electronic, a free online supplement is also available. The supplement features links to press releases from state officials, agencies, and organizations. Newspaper articles on legislative issues are …

Tom Mighell, of Inter Alia, has written a useful article on new tools for capturing your Internet research (pdf). The article, which appears in the Texas Bar Journal, offers advice on: Saving searches (Google’s My Search History, Yahoo!’s My Web) Sharing bookmarks (del.icio.us) Collecting content (Net Snippets, OnFolio) Desktop search products (Google, Yahoo!, Copernic Desktop …

From JS Online: Inspired by the movie “Calendar Girls,” in which the members of a stuffy British women’s club pose semi-nude for a charity calendar, six Waupaca-area library administrators have produced “Desperate Librarians,” a sexy but tasteful calendar they’re selling to raise money for their libraries. Not sure what to say about this one, so …

In the mood for a good laugh? Check out “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture,” a new book by UW Law School’s own professor Marc Galanter. From Channel3000: Galanter says lawyer jokes seem to be oddly American, and his book traces legal history trends back to the 1950s. “Law was seen as a …

Findlaw’s The Practice Paper notes that there are two new lawyer tv series on the schedule this season. The Rocky Mount Telegram offers details: “Head Cases,” starring onetime movie “It” boy Chris O’Donnell (“Batman Forever”) as an ambitious corporate attorney whose breakdown lands him in a treatment facility and then in a decidedly unglamorous practice …

If you’ve ever tried to locate one, you know that finding copies of TV and radio news transcripts and recordings can be fairly difficult. These three sources, however, may have just what you need. Vanderbilt TV News Archive Contains more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, …