Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Dale Tincher of Consultwebs.com has put together a useful list of considerations for law firms who are contemplating starting a blog. Blogging is not for everyone, he warns. In his article, Law Firm Blogs – Hip or Hype?, he notes: Properly developed blogs can be very effective. Unfortunately, the majority of law firm blogs are …
In a first for Congress, the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics heard testimony this week from Astronaut John Phillips, as he orbited the Earth. Read more in the NASA feature. Source: Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites
In addition to the index by branch, a statute index has recently been created for the Local Decision Access Project (LDAP). As reported earlier, LDAP makes selected decisions of the Dane Co Circuit Court judges available to the public. Eleven judges are participating in the project by contributing their decisions. The decisions are available in …
In our continuing series profiling databases available from Wisconsin’s public libraries, let me direct your attention to D&B Million Dollar Database Premier. This Dun & Bradstreet database contains company profiles of over a million U.S. leading public and private businesses which have $1 million or more in sales, 20 or more employees, or branches with …
If you haven’t noticed, I’m a big fan of RSS. So I think it’s pretty cool that library systems are starting to offer RSS notification of items checked-out, overdue, and on-hold. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a reminder before the book you checked out is overdue? A couple of library systems in Wisconsin (Eastern …
On Tuesday, June 21st, UW Memorial Library’s Grants Information Collection will host a presentation focused on grants for organizations. Erika Wittlieb, coordinator of the nationwide network of Foundation Center Cooperating Collections in New York, will talk about the Foundation Center, its resources and services, and how to effectively use the foundation grantmaker database, FC Search. …
Wish you could go back in time to view a Web page as it looked five years ago? You just might be able to with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This amazing resource has archived 40 billion web pages from 1996 to a few months ago. Of course, not every page is archived – but …
Compared to states like New York, Wisconsin’s state court structure is fairly straightforward. The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has compiled state court structure charts for each state. Select a state from the U.S. map to view the court structure in that state. From the chart, click on a blue court description to be …
The Business and Company Resource Center is a great database of detailed company and industry news and information available from the Milwaukee Public Library. It contains company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals from 1980 to the present. Business and Company Resource Center is available for use within City of …
Another Titan Arum, the giant flower nicknamed “corpse flower” for it’s pungent aroma, is set to bloom soon at the UW Botany Garden and Greenhouses – right next door to the UW Law School. As of yesterday it measured an amazing 97 and 1/2 inches. A live webcam is available and on site viewing is …