Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Madison Magazine ranks the city’s top lawyers in their January issue. Madison Magazine’s 2009 Top Lawyers peer survey reveals who the legal eagles in our community would turn to if they needed some advice. With more than 2,300 Dane County lawyers in thirty-eight specialties, we wanted to know: who can you turn to in a …
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, library patrons can download digital audio books to their mp3 players or burn the files to an audio CD. And just recently announced, the books are now available for iPods and iPhones. Previously, the system only worked with Microsoft-based mp3 players. This example shows the variety of formats …
If you ever use their website, The Wisconsin Court System wants your feedback. They are currently conducting a survey “to ensure it is useful for our customers.” Don’t worry – it’s a very short survey.
After almost a year’s absence, the American Law Reports are now available again on Lexis. Here’s the announcement from my Lexis rep: The following publications are again accessible on Lexis.com via the Legal menu > expand Secondary Legal sources: ALR (American Law Reports) Witkin Library State Jurisprudences for Florida, New York, Ohio and Texas American …
The Capital Times has a nice article on the UW Law School’s Mock Trial team. The team finished second-place at a tournament in Los Angeles last month.
A federal judge has disallowed attorneys to recover electronic legal research fees as part of a $31.5 million settlement against Coca-Cola. From Law.com: Among the expenses [U.S. District Court Judge Willis B.] Hunt disallowed was $93,960.67 for LexisNexis, Westlaw and Online Library Research, writing, “This Court is of the opinion that charging separately for use …
From Channel 3000: Wisconsin students can study for their SAT and ACT exams for free on a new state Web site. KnowHow2GoWisconsin announced Friday that its Web site now has tutorials and interactive practice sessions for the two college entrance exams as well as the graduate school exam known as the GRE. Milwaukee and Madison-area …
There’s a new addition to the Wisconsin blawgosphere – Wisconsin Lawyers Blog. Welcome! From the Wisconsin Law Journal: With 8 Wisconsin attorneys blogging at the site, in the categories of civil litigation, real estate, business law, personal injury, and intellectual property, it will be a great addition to the legal community.
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Alta Charo has been selected for President Elect Obama’s HHS agency review team. How exciting! Professor Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School’s Department …
I’m very honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Unsung Heroes award. The awards were presented at a luncheon at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee last Friday. The award I received was in the Law Library staff category. WLJ also recognized award winners in seven other …