Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From PDF for Lawyers: The ABA Law Practice Managment Section is sponsoring a free webinar on what’s new in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat 7.0. It’s free for ABA Members, who can register at this link. The webinar is a one hour deal that will take place on Tuesday May 24th at 12:00 pm …
From Cornell Law Library’s InSITE: Regulations.gov is a federal government initiative to encourage public participation in the rulemaking process. As experienced legal researchers know, when a federal agency proposes a new rule it is published in the Federal Register and a comment period is provided. The Regulations.gov website revolutionizes the commenting process by taking it …
Blogs are great for keeping up on national news, but what about the local buzz? Check out Blogdigger Local to “see what they’re saying in your neck of the woods!” Madison has its own aggregator of local blogs. “Dane101 is a website for Madison and Dane County, about the persons, events, and issues that shape …
LISNews.com announces that there is a new service for RSS feeds from Amazon.com. Use it to search for your favorite author and subscribe to the feed to be notified when he/she publishes something new. You can also search for other things that Amazon sells, such as electronics, music, toys, and more. Source: AbsTracked
Speedy Trial: Q&A with Dane Co’s Legal Community is a new feature of DCLRCBlawg. Members of Dane County’s legal community are introduced as they answer a series of questions posed to them. Should be interesting. First up is Deb Smith, Director- Assigned Counsel Division, Wisconsin State Public Defender.
Because Wisconsin’s public libraries provide some awesome electronic resources for professionals and too few people know about them, I’ll be highlighting a few of them in the coming weeks. Associations Unlimited is a wonderful Milwaukee Public Library database of information about U.S. and international nonprofit membership associations. It also includes IRS data on U.S. 501(c) …
The World Fact Book 2005 edition is now available online. Although the book was created by the CIA as a reference for their own personnel, it is very useful for anyone wishing to learn about a country. It contains country profiles divided into categories: Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military, & Transnational Issues. Source: …
Paula Seeger of the Dane County Legal Resource Center reports that an index of decisions for the Legal Decision Access Project (LDAP) is now available online. 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. …
Do you enjoy reading but aren’t sure what to read next? Try What Do I Read Next – an awesome resource from the South Central Library System. In addition to the typical author and title searches, you can also search by time period, genre, settings, characters, and more. Or, enter the title of your favorite …
The U. S. Courts have created a new map which delineates each of the 12 regional judicial circuits and 94 judicial districts within the federal court system. Clicking on the map will lead you to the web sites of the circuit and district courts in that area. Links to PACER and ECF are also included.