Author: bjshucha

On April 4th, the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals will be converting to a new new case management database. This will result in the following changes to the WSCCA.i database (Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Case Access system) and the Supreme Court opinion search. Opinion Search: Docket number format for Supreme …

From Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week introduced Hospital Compare, a Web site that provides healthcare consumers with information on how well the hospitals in their area care for adult patients with certain medical conditions. The site is intended to help consumers compare the quality of care hospitals …

The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau is doing some awesome things with RSS. The latest is LRB Podcasts, or audio posts. So far, there are six posts, but look for more with the RSS feed. Arden Rice discusses the Tap the Power relating to Tourism and Economic Development Robin Kite discusses the Public Trust Doctrine of …

The City of Madison is introducing, in beta testing mode, impressive database called the City’s Legislative Information Center. The database provides “quick and easy public access” to the city’s legislative documents. The Legislative Files Search section includes ordinances, resolutions, appointments along with their status (passed, failed, referred) and date introduced. The Meeting Agendas & Minutes …

I recently learned that U.S. law students, faculty and staff are once again eligible to receive individual passwords for Quicklaw, as known formerly as Quicklaw America. Quicklaw, which merged a few years back with LexisNexis Canada, is a Web-based resource that offers over 2,500 databases of law, news and information from Canada, the United States, …

The Terry Schiavo case has everyone thinking about living wills. The UW Law School Elder Law Clinic is offering an opportunity to create a living will at no cost during their Advance Directives Fair in the UW Law School Atrium next week, April 4th-8th. Hours are Monday 11-2, Tuesday 10-12, Wednesday 1-5, Friday 10-3. This …

The Denver Post reports that the email marketing company, OptInRealBig.com has filed for bankruptcy. The company cites costly legal fees its battle with Microsoft, which claims OptInRealBig.com illegally spams computer users. According to the article, the company made $15 million a year sending 15 million e-mail messages a day. Source: TVC Alert

From TVC Alert: The cover story in the current Washington Lawyer discusses the pros and cons of Weblogs, and how they are taking off in the legal profession. The article ends with a briefly annotated list of prominent legal blogs.

Standard and Poor’s has launched a free database called SchoolMatters which provides information and analysis about public schools in the United States. Data is available nationally, by state, or even by local school district. Articles about the database appear in both the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Stateline.org. From the Stateline.org article: Ever wonder how much …

There is a new people finder on the Web called ZoomInfo and it’s pretty amazing. Rather than just providing links to a bunch of pages on which a person is mentioned, it synthesizes the information and presents it via a “People Summary.” I typed in Bonnie Shucha and received a surprisingly accurate summary of myself. …