Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
HeinOnline will soon be adding a new search feature called Title Lookup whereby you can locate a title anywhere in HeinOnline or you can use it to locate a title in a specific library. Title Lookup is available on the HeinOnline “Welcome” page and in each HeinOnline library. You can enter any term you wish …
Have you ever been bidding on something at Ebay and up until the last few seconds, you think you’ve got it – then someone swoops in at the very end and outbids you? Urgh! This is called sniping and Wikipedia defines it as watching a timed online auction (such as on eBay or Yahoo!), and …
Earlier this year, I reported on the lawyer documentary, A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar… which was showing at several film festivals. Now, it’s been released on DVD and is available for purchase on Amazon and soon to be available for check out at the UW Law Library. Here’s the NYT review as it appears …
Thanks to Mary Koshollek for letting me know that the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference schedule is up. The conference will be held on November 29 and 30 at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee. Attendees can choose from four tracks of programming covering Substantive Law, Practice Management, Technology and Ethics/Quality of Life as …
HeinOnline has launched a blog to provide product information to users. According to Hein: This blog will offer insight to our newest products, notify customers of our latest interface enhancements, and share tips to help improve customers research experience. Anyone from students and librarians to professionals world-wide will be able to use our blog to …
Since January, we’ve had a chat box on our home page. Law School and other UW–Madison students, faculty & staff can use it to ask legal research questions of our reference librarians. The chat box is courtesy of a service called Plugoo. The questions asked through the chat box are routed to our regular IM …
Yesterday, the Judicial Conference of the United States voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings available online through PACER. According to the press release: Under the new policy, transcripts created by court reporters or transcribers will be available for inspection and copying in a clerk of court’s office and for download …
Yesterday the New York Times began offering its content free online. Now, according to a Reuters article, it looks like the Wall Street Journal may follow suit. Thanks to Library Laws for the tip.
Beginning this week, The New York Times will stop charging for access to TimesSelect content. InfoWorld reports that, in addition to opening up its content to all visitors, The New York Times will also offer free access to its archives dating back to 1987, as well as access to stories published by the paper between …
Real Lawyers Have Blogs has some good advice on converting a law firm newsletter into a blog.