Author: bjshucha

askSam is offering a free database containing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents. The database and free viewer must be downloaded to your own computer. Source: ResearchBuzz

Martindale.com has recently added the option for law firms to include diversity profiles with their listings. According to a Business Wire article, this new online marketing offering “helps law firms improve their business development outreach to prospective clients and enhance their recruiting efforts for fresh legal talent.” To view a profile, check the “Search only …

WestCiteLink has been around for a while. It’s a software application that automatically finds the legal citations in your word-processing documents and links them to the full text documents on Westlaw. But I recently learned that it is also available for Internet Explorer. Imagine that you are viewing a Web page which contains a legal …

Through its Wisconsin Legislative Action Center (Capwiz) service, the Wisconsin State Bar offers action alerts on important legislative issues. According to Deb Sybell, Government Relations Coordinator at the Wisconsin State Bar, the action alerts are “intended to mobilize our State Bar membership when an important issue is before the Legislature. Those attorneys who sign up …

Get ready for a trip down memory lane, Milwaukeeans. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Special Collections department (my alma mater) has compiled an interesting collection entitled Greetings from Milwaukee. The collection contains digital images of the city – some quirky – produced by two Milwaukee-based postcard publishers, the L.L. Cook Company and the E.C. Kropp Company. …

Although it’s not new, I’ve recently learned about a service called Courthouse News Service (CNS). A news wire for lawyers, CNS employs a network of correspondents who file daily reports covering new appellate rulings, new legislation and new civil cases from the federal and state courts with the most prolific and weighty litigation. Much of …

Update 1/18/05: Jennifer Aleknavage, Communications Manager for LexisNexis alerted me that there are some additional differences between the LexisNexis AlaCarte product and LexisNexis by Credit Card. According to her, LexisNexis AlaCarte: is targeted for small- to medium-sized businesses has a new and simplified interface for easy navigation-significant difference offers simplified search functionality options. You can …

From an article appearing in Findlaw for Legal Professionals: No one took any notice of the tall, slim man who appeared Tuesday for jury duty. Had he worn his black robe, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer no doubt would have drawn more attention. Even Marlborough, Mass., District Court Judge Thomas Sullivan Jr. didn’t recognize Breyer …

For those of you using a newsreader such as Bloglines to read this blog and other blogs via RSS, you might be interested to learn that Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news via RSS. Simply plug a ticker symbol into the Yahoo! Finance Company News RSS URL Generator and away you go. Source: beSpacific

The January 2005 issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now available from the Wisconsin State Law Library. Featured are librarian Julie Tessmer’s visit to Serbia as law library consultant for the National Center for State Courts’ (NCSC) Rule of Law project and a tech tip on Cell Phones, Telemarketing and Wireless 411 Service.