Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This month’s Site-tation from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has an informative article entitle, Lemon Juice, Cornstarch, and Microsoft: Invisible Ink And Your Documents. Originally published in the Summer 2004 issue of the Wisconsin State Bar Section of Law Practice’s Law Practice News, the article warns that MS Word documents can unintentionally reveal sensitive …
Disgruntled litigants are getting creative. According to an article in Findlaw, a Manhattan woman put her housing court judge for sale on eBay to attract attention to her case. “After four days on eBay, the best offer for the judge was $127.50.” Source: Stark County Law Library Blawg
Yahoo is beta testing a new video search engine. According to SearchEngineWatch, they are also introducing a new RSS-based video enclosure for producers to include with video content which will help Yahoo (and others) discover and index media content. In the advanced search, you may limit by format, size, duration, domain, and safe search filtered. …
Amy Gannaway has written an informative article on Using the Wisconsin Legislature Web Site which appears in the December issue of The Wisconsin Lawyer. She offers guidance on “looking up and tracking legislative, statutory, and regulatory information, including bills, acts, statutes, and the Administrative Code, and on using the Wisconsin Legislature Web site.” Ms. Gannaway …
Kendall F. Svengalis’ Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual 2004 edition is now available on LexisNexis (Library: BUSREF, LEXREF & File: LEGBGD) Law librarians have long known the value of the buyer’s guide which includes information on a variety of legal information products in both print and electronic formats. Divided by publication type and …
The Department of Administration is seeking vendors to build a public wireless network for downtown Madison and the airport. According to Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, the project won’t use any taxpayer money. It will be installed by the winning bidder who will pay the state, county and city for …
Boogle is Beta testing a new search tool called Google Suggest which suggests queries as you type in the search box. A drop down box open beneath the search box allowing you to choose a query. The suggestions may help you refine your search by adding additional terms to narrow, or perhaps broaden, your query. …
Wisconsin wetlands is the topic of the latest Tap the Power from the Legislative Reference Bureau Library. Wisconsin’s wetlands serve many important functions, including fish and wildlife habitat, water quality protection, flood storage, and erosion control. . . . Wisconsin has lost more than five million, or approximately half, of its original wetland base since …
A couple of notices regarding the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: It will be unavailable from December 10th, 2004 till January 3rd, 2005. With the start of the 2005-06 legislature session, all subscriptions for notification from the 2003-04 session will be cleared. If you wish to continue monitoring, you will need to resubscribe to items again …
Babelplex is a new bilingual search engine which searches the Web in two languages at once. Search results are displayed side by side. A total of eleven languages are available in Babelplex. To search, simply type in a few keywords and select a language pair (the language of your query and the language you want …