Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Daniel P. Tokaji has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. From UW Law School News: He has been a professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law since 2003, serving as associate dean for faculty since 2018. Daniel Tokaji A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Tokaji …
According to a new study by Clio, law firms have seen a drastic deceleration in new matter creation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of 2020, the number of new legal matters being opened each week has decreased by more than 30% compared to a baseline average of weekly matters opened during the …
I teach an Advanced Legal Research course at the UW Law School. I always conclude with a tour of the Wisconsin State Law Library. This year, we couldn’t be there in person, but Director of Reference Services, Heidi Yelk, kindly paid our class a virtual visit. As in past years, learning about the outstanding – …
Earlier this week, in a 5 to 4 decision, the US Supreme Court held that the annotations in an official state code are ineligible for copyright protection. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc., the Court affirmed that the annotations to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated are not eligible for copyright protection because they were created …
This week’s Inside Track from the Wisconsin State Bar features a very interesting interview with Judge Randy Koschnick, Director of Wisconsin State Courts about how the state’s courts are responding to the Wisconsin Supreme Court order to suspended most in-person proceedings through at least April 30th – with some exceptions – and to instead conduct …
In this time of social distancing, many of us have turned to Zoom to communicate with colleagues and clients. But wouldn’t it be nice if there was a video conferencing platform that specifically met the needs of attorneys? Turns out that there is: Legaler is a secure online video chat platform that is specifically designed …
The UW Law School is privileged to host the UW Madison Our Shared Future heritage marker from February 24 to March 9. The marker recognizes this land as the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk Nation and acknowledges the circumstances that led to their forced removal, and honors the Ho-Chunk Nation’s history of resistance and resilience. …
From the Free Law Project: We are happy to announce that we have compiled, collected and analyzed the complete collection of precedential federal tax opinions from the Board of Tax Appeals (1924-1942) and later the United States Tax Court (1942-). Our collection of tax cases spans two courts, nearly a century, and comprises nearly twenty-four …
The Wisconsin State Law Library recently announced the appointment of Amy Crowder as the Wisconsin State Law Librarian. Amy has been with the library since 1994 and most recently served as Deputy Law Librarian, a position she has held since 2012. Amy has extensive professional experience in collection development and management, system administration of the …
AI-based tools to support government decisionmaking, implementation, and interaction are already at work in many federal agencies. Yet little is known about how agencies acquire, use, and oversee such AI systems. In an effort to fill these gaps, the Administrative Conference of the United States commissioned a report from researchers at Stanford University and New …