Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This morning, Anne Reed of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC appeared on Lake Effect, a program on Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM. In the ten minute interview, Anne discusses the phenomenon of blogging jurors. Really interesting stuff. In case you missed it, the interview is available on the Lake Effect Web site. For more on …
Determining if and how a Web site has changed can be an important factor in litigation. Many of you probably know about a wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine which archives sites and displays them as they were at various points in time. But, but did you know that there were other tools that do …
About a week ago, the Wisconsin Law Journal unveiled a new Web site. Besides a sleek new look, WLJ has introduced some sweet new features including several new blogs and a handful of RSS feeds. In his introductory post, Managing Editor, Tony Anderson explains: New features will include a variety of blogs touching on a …
Have a dissertation looming in your future and don’t know where to start? Check out the Dissertation Calculator developed by the UW Madison CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing). Simply enter your start date and target end date. The calculator breaks down the dissertation process into manageable deadlines and provides you with important resources …
From the Christian Science Monitor: This week the US Sentencing Commission, with little fanfare, officially reduced its recommended sentences for crack-related offenses. The commission announced last spring that it intended to make the change, and Congress had until Nov. 1 to stop the move. It didn’t, and the revised guidelines became effective Thursday. Thanks to …
A free Professional Ethics CLE Program will be held at the UW Law School this Wednesday, November 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 P.M in room 7200 (Lubar Commons). Three Ethics CLE credits for Wisconsin lawyers will be available. No registration is required.
Two business databases available to public library card holders have just been announced: Value Line from the Milwaukee Public Library Value Line, a popular online database for investors, is now available remotely through the Milwaukee Public Library’s Website. All City of Milwaukee residents with valid library cards can use this great resource. To access this …
Thanks to Library Stuff for inspiring me in my search of the great library pumpkins. The first is courtesy of Terry’s Worklog. “For those of you that don’t speak MARC, the pumpkin is a jack-o-lantern with the MARC record of the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” And who ever said librarians were geeky? This next one …
West has unveiled a new Web search engine called Westlaw WebPlus. This legally-focused search engine filters search results based on legal relevance. WebPlus is available from within Westlaw, although it may just be for law schools at this point (see image below), as well as independently on the Web. Using it in either platform is …
West has launched a fun new resource called Headnote of the Day in which “amusing, profound or otherwise interesting” headnotes are delivered to you by email (what, no RSS?). Headnote of the Day is a free subscription service. From the press release: “People are fascinated with the law,” said Al Maleson, West Headnote of the …