Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could be automatically alerted when articles about your clients or practice areas appear in Wisconsin’s newspapers. . . and receive a link to the full text articles. . . for free? Good news: this service is available via Badgerlink. Badgerlink, a collection of popular and academic databases from the …
Annotated New York Times from blogrunner is a new resource that tracks blog posts discussing articles that appear in the New York Times. It also offers a hundreds of topical RSS feeds for NYT articles – many more than those provided by the main NYT site. Here’s a sampling from the “L’s” – Law and …
Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an article about a new book called, “Weird Wisconsin,” co-written by Madison law librarian and “student of weirdology,” Richard Hendricks. According to Hendricks: “We are the weirdest state,” he says. “We’re outside the mainstream. The early settlers here were a motley crew running away from somewhere else. Malcontents came here for …
Readers of WisBlawg know that last week was National Library Week. At the UW Law Library we held a number of events, including daily contests, workshop and displays. On Wednesday we held our first ever Stump the Law Library Staff contest. We received 9 questions, a combination of faculty, staff, and students. I’m happy to …
As part of our National Library Week celebration at the UW Law Library, today I presented a workshop for our students, faculty and staff on Staying Current in Less Time: Blogs, RSS & Alert Services. Because I thought that others might find it useful also – and because I’ve been anxious to try out podcasting, …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that two Milwaukee companies have been named to Inc. magazine’s “Inner City 100,” an annual ranking of high-growth companies in the nation’s distressed urban centers. The two companies are: HMB Contractors Inc., an excavating and demolition firm that began life a decade ago by plowing snow from residential driveways, and …
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In honor of National Library Week, Legal Dockets Online is offering free access this week – begins today and ends on April 17. The login is “nlw” and the password is “free”
In honor of National Library Week, two database providers, Gale & Xrefer are offering free access to libraries during the week of April 10th-16th. Gale: Multiple databases available for week including LegalTrac, InfoTrac, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Business & Company Resource Center, Associations Unlimited, etc. To sign up, visit Gale on April 10th. (Many …
The following are newly issued reports from the Wisconsin Legislative Council and Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau: Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights Law (Legislative Council) Wisconsin’s Transportation Network Infrastructure (Legislative Council) Recodification of Chapter 45, Veterans (Legislative Council) 2004-05 Estimated State Support for Education (Fiscal Bureau)