Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Daily Cardinal: The U.S. Postal Service in Madison announced Monday it will be moving into the vacant building previously occupied by McDonald’s at 441 N. Lake St. According to Terri Bouffiou, spokesperson for Madison’s postal service, the post office will start renovations on the building once a contractor is chosen. She said by …
Anne Reed, trial lawyer and jury consultant in the Milwaukee office of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC, has started a very well done blog entitled, Deliberations. The focus of the blog is juries, jury trials and jury selection. Not only is the blog well written, Anne does a great job of using images to attract …
A Lawyer Walks into a Bar is the name of a new lawyer documentary from Camel’s Back Films. According to the web site, “the documentary explores the influence of law and its practitioners on American culture, while following six characters as they do whatever it takes to become lawyers themselves. WARNING: the film contains karaoke, …
The latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series is now available via the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN) – Vol. 3, No. 1: March 16, 2007 Table of Contents: – “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited” HERBERT M. KRITZER University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Accounting and Information Systems …
Apparently, as of March 13th, the New York Times has opened up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses. See the sign up for more information. TimesSelect provides access to The NYT archive dating back to 1851, op-ed columnists, news tracker, and more.
Thanks to Blawg for the link to the Practical RSS video clip, An Introduction To RSS… In just seven minutes, the video does an excellent job of explaining what RSS is and how to use it. Well worth a few minutes of your time if you’ve been wanting to learn more about RSS. And after …
Steve Meili and the UW–Madison Consumer Law Clinic are featured in the latest issue of The Wisconsin Idea. Students gain an awareness of the life situation of the clients,” says Meili. “What might seem like a fairly simple legal problem is really much more complicated. It is important for students and lawyer to realize you …
A few weeks ago, I reported that the UW Law Library will be hosting on our web site Wisconsin Legislative Council documents back to 1996. According to our Head of Cataloging, Cindy May, these documents are now available via the MadCat Library Catalog. They can be searched in MadCat by author, title, subject, series, or …
JS Online reports that, according to a provision in the budget bill, …The director of state courts would be given authority to “establish and charge fees for use of the circuit court automated information systems created under this section.” Left unstated are who would be charged, how much they would be charged and how often… …
From the UW Space Place: Total Lunar Eclipse Sat, 3-Mar-2007, 5:45 pm (3:00 hrs) The full moon of 3 March will rise in Madison at 5:45 p.m., but it will not be your typical full moon. The rising moon will be totally eclipsed by Earth’s shadow. Unlike a solar eclipse, there is no safety hazard …