Author: bjshucha

From Cindy May’s Recommended Readings, LLAW Newsletter, Summer 2005 Brown, Cynthia L. “Online Legal Research Billing Policies.” Legal Information Alert 24(1):1, 4-6, 15 (January 2005). The author requested sample online legal research billing policies via the law-lib discussion forum. In this article, she describes what she learned from the many variables she found in such …

Legal Technology has an interesting article on ways to use your iPod for business applications, such as voice recording and on-the-go language translation. Source: Inter Alia

Coming Soon to LexisNexis (From News for Law School Faculty and Staff): Shepard’s Alert – Receive updates to any Shepard’’s report, including statutes. Set up an Alert directly from your Shepard’’s report or from the new Alerts tab available on the research system. Spell Checking Feature – Use the Check Spelling link to identify search …

Technorati recently reported some interesting figures their State of Blogosphere reports. The report offers the following summary on the topic of blog growth: Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months A new blog is created about every second, …

Last month, RCA unveiled a new product for linking landline and cell phone use: the RCA Cell Docking System. The New York Times reviewed this new technology Dial a number and press Home, and you’re making a phone call on your home line. Dial and press Cell, and you’re routing the call through your cellphone, …

In catching up on my print reading, I noticed the following announcement in The Lawyer’s PC: “Thomson West Opens New Learning Center with Milwaukee Bar.” The article is available on Westlaw (22 No. 18 LAWPC 7) According to the article: Thomson West has partnered with the MBA to establish and support a Learning Center located …

Law.com has a review of the first installment of NBC’s “The Law Firm,” which has “something no other reality TV show has: a behind-the-scenes look at real trial lawyers in action on real cases. ” Of the 10 lawyers left, eight are members of the California State Bar, seven live in or around Los Angeles, …

Kudos to Forbes for reminding readers about the many wonderful databases available at no cost to researchers from their public libraries. The author writes: [Public libraries] offer Net access to an increasingly wide range of databases that don’t exist on the open Web and, because they reside behind a fee-based gate, don’t get indexed by …

The Department of Justice recently launched a National Sex Offender Public Registry with which users can submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders. Wisconsin is one of about 20 states currently included in the registry. However, according to the DOJ, data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will …

The Wisconsin State Journal has a nice piece on the role of corporate blogs as marketing tools. The article offers the following tips to consider before launching a corporate blog: Strategy – Define the target audience, goals and objectives Technology – Choose a blog package with user-friendly features Marketing – Don’t forget to publicize the …