Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society is hosting a symposium entitled Gender and Criminal Justice: The Impact of Gender in Criminal Law from Legislation through Incarceration. The event will be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 from 10am-4pm at the University of Wisconsin Law School (Lubar Commons- Room 7200, 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, …
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From a WI Department of Transportation press release: Motorists can now get up-to-the-minute travel information by either dialing 511 or going to a new Web site offered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The Web site, www.511wi.gov, provides travelers with traffic and road information on Wisconsin’s main highways, including the Interstate system. The new Web …
From UW Madison News: Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence. Stinson’s attorneys with the Wisconsin Innocence Project and Milwaukee County District Attorney Norm Gahn have agreed that the new evidence — consisting …
Have you been hearing the buzz about social networking but aren’t sure if it’s worth your time and effort to check it out? What is social networking? What possible use could it be to a legal professional, you ask? Practicing Law in the 21st Century has written a good post which asks Can Lawyers Afford …
This one is just for UW–Madison folks: The UW Madison Libraries have created a remote access bookmarklet. Why should I care, you might ask? Imagine that you want to access one of the databases to which the UW–Madison Libraries subscribe, such as Hein Online. So you do a Google search for Hein Online and come …
“Zotero helps you collect and manage citations. Zotz helps you make them public.” From Zotero: The Zotero team is making solid progress on a variety of collaborative features. But, if you want to publish and share items today, you might be interested in Zotz. The Zotz plugin allows you to publish Zotero collections through MIT’s …
Digital Inspiration has a handy list of free tools for working with PDF documents if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat. The list covers everything from creating PDFs, to merging PDFs, to setting password restrictions, to filling in PDF forms and more. Source: PDF for Lawyers
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula offers tips for researching layoff information. One of the databases she mentions is JWT Inside’s Layoff Report Database. The researcher can search by week or keyword. The weekly report lists the various companies, locations, affected workforce, news source, and date of the layoffs for that particular week. …
Updated: 7/22/2013 I’ve recently been made aware of the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rules Home Page. Wisconsin state agencies value your involvement in agency decision-making and have created this website to make it easy for you to monitor and participate in their rulemaking. At this site, you can: Search for rules View the status of …