Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I noticed today in WisconsinEye’s Morning Minute email that they have introduced a transcription tool for their archived programming. According to WisconsinEye, “the online transcription tool allows users to read and follow a transcript while watching any on-demand video. Users can search the transcript and jump to searched words, click on links to time codes …
Recently the State Bar of Wisconsin announced the winners of the Wisconsin Legal Innovator awards. This year, the Lifetime Innovator Award was posthumously awarded to Lavinia Goodell – and I mean really posthumously. Lavinia Goodell (1839-1880) was the first female lawyer admitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1879, after earlier having been denied admission …
On November 13th, the Madison Public Library Central Library is offering a free public workshop on Researching Patent & Trademark Information: Essential Information You Need to Protect Your Intellectual Property It looks like an excellent program with experts from UW–Madison, USPTO, and more. 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Sign-In and Registration Packets 9:15 a.m. – …
Join us for the latest edition of the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library for an engaging conversation with Michele LaVigne, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Public Defender Project. LaVigne discusses her article “Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language Impairments, and Judicial Ignorance” which she co-authored with speech-language …
In most states, including Wisconsin, an attorney’s duty to keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice now includes “the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Comment 8 and Wisconsin Supreme Court Rule 20:1.1, Comment 8. A great way to learn about the benefits and risks …
The U.S. Government Publishing Office has announced that it is working with the Law Library of Congress to digitize and make freely accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set back to the first volume published in 1817. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, contains the Reports and Documents …
It’s not just what you say – It’s how you say it. Your Twitter account may be revealing more about you than you realize. Of course, the contents of your tweets convey information about you – but so do the structure and patterns of your tweets, enhancing or perhaps negating your words. On the surface, …
Last week, someone asked me if it was possible to search the full text of multiple PDF files in the same folder at one time. Hmm – good question. No surprise, our Assistant Director for Public Service, Kris Turner, knew how to do this. Then today I ran across this post from the South Central …
The latest issue of the State Bar’s InsideTrack has an excellent article on the use and misuse of CCAP by employers to explore a job applicant’s criminal background. Employers, and the lawyers who advise them, must be prepared to use CCAP within the parameters of the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (WFEA). The WFEA provides, as …
From c|net: A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a mixed ruling on the Federal Communications Commission repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules. The court upheld the FCC’s repeal of the rules, but struck down a key provision that blocked states from passing their own net neutrality protections.