Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: Though large firms around the country have been cancelling their summer associate programs, the trend had yet to hit in Wisconsin. Until now. Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady LLP confirmed that they have “suspended” their 2010 summer associate program… Though Quarles is the only firm in the state so far to …
This week marks my tenth anniversary at the University of Wisconsin Law Library. I feel fortunate to have received the opportunity to work at a great institution, doing a job that I enjoy with a wonderful group of colleagues. Not many people can say that they truly love their job, but I am one of …
Mark Gediman at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has an interesting post about law firm cost recovery for online database charges. I find myself constantly explaining/defending/justifying our cost recovery policy. Maybe I’ve been sampling the Kool-aid along the way, but I’ve come to realize that most firms that charge back for online services are …
I’m excited about a new Firefox add on called RECAP that “improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts.” According to the website, RECAP: Helps you give back: Contributes to a public archive hosted by the Internet Archive Saves you money: Shows you when …
The Volokh Conspiracy examines the question of whether Lexis and Westlaw infringe copyright when they post briefs filed in court. Read more: The argument for infringement is actually moderately strong. Like most other documents, briefs are protected by copyright the moment they are written. The fact that they’re filed in court doesn’t waive any copyright. …
From the Marquette Law School Faculty Blog: This year marks both the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the sesquicentennial of his visit to Milwaukee to speak at the Wisconsin State Fair… To commemorate these events, Marquette University Law School, together with the Department of History, will host a conference entitled “Legacies of Lincoln.” This …
Bev Butula’s recent column in InsideTrack introduces a couple of tools for scheduling meetings: Coordinating schedules when working with a group of individuals can be a time-consuming process. It often entails several email exchanges or numerous telephone calls. Many experience the problem arranging times to meet with co-counsel, committee members or social groups. There are …
DomainNameNews reports on the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States. According to the story: Daniel Goncalves, the 25 year old law firm computer technician arrested on Thursday, reportedly hacked in to the Angel’s [the domain name owners] AOL email account, used that information to retrieve the login details for the …
Have you ever received a document in a format that you couldn’t open? Maybe a MS Office 2007 .docx format but you’re using an older version of Office? Or wanted to convert a document to PDF but don’t have a PDF creator installed on your computer? Then check out Zamzar, a free online file conversion …
Nicholas from Justia just let me know that case number searching is now available on Justia’s Docket Search. He was responding to an earlier WisBlawg post which indicated that case number searching was not available. His comment appears below: I just wanted to make one slight comment on Justia having no case number searching. Actually …