Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here’s a funny one from the Smoking Gun: Judging By His Handwriting MARCH 14–It seems that there is a serious penmanship problem with lawyers filing documents in Mississippi’s Eighth Circuit Court. So much so that the presiding judge there issued the below order warning attorneys that the court clerk would now reject pleadings and motions …
On the UW Law Library New Book Shelf: Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Chapter one features an “oral history” by Chris Ochoa, entitled “My Life Is a Broken Puzzle.” Currently a law student at the UW Law School, he spent 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and was …
PACER is now offering free access to opinions in federal district courts using CM/ECF version 2.4 or higher. CM/ECF is the Federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files System. This applies to the Eastern District of Wisconsin which uses CM/ECF Version 2.5. The Western District of Wisconsin, however, apparently does not use the CM/ECF system. The …
An interesting article on courtroom technology appears in Law.com’s Small Firm Business. The author describes various technologies being used in the courtroom today and the benefits of a paperless presentation. Source: Legal Technology Blog
The Smoking Gun reports that “in what is surely a first for the federal judiciary, a Texas bankruptcy judge has quoted from the Adam Sandler film canon in a recent opinion. Dismissing a motion due to ‘incomprehensibility,’ Judge Leif Clark cited a scene from ‘Billy Madison,’ Sandler’s 1995 comedy, in a footnote to a February …
From TVC Alert: LexisNexis this week introduced a new litigation tool called LexisNexis Service of Process. The service facilitates fast, reliable service of summonses, complaints, subpoenas and other documents via an established network of process servers. It is available through LexisNexis File & Serve, an Internet-based service provided to courts and law firms to enable …
The Winter 2006 edition of The Third Branch is now available. The Third Branch is a quarterly publication providing news of interest to the Wisconsin Court System. Highlights include: – Evaluation of caseload statistics – Update on judicial compensation – Opening of new Dane County Courthouse