According to an email sent to registered users, WisconsinEye is implementing subscription-based access for all users of on-demand content effective February 22nd. Although legislative and Supreme Court content will still be available live and for …
Data & Databases
Further Info on WI Jury Instructions Availability – Fastcase, Print, and Superseded/Withdrawn Instructions
Last week, I posted that the Wisconsin Jury Instructions are now freely available online from the Wisconsin State Law Library. Since then, I’ve received additional clarification on the availability of the instructions via Fastcase, in …
WI Jury Instructions Now Freely Available Online to All
The Wisconsin Jury Instructions (Civil, Criminal, and Children’s) are now freely available online on the Wisconsin State Law Library website. This is a result of a cooperative effort between the University of Wisconsin Law School, …
Free Access to Bloomberg Law Research Platform for Legal Aid Organizations & Pro Bono Attorneys
Earlier this month, Bloomberg Law announced that it is offering free access to all legal aid organizations supported by the Legal Services Corporation. See Dewey B Strategic for more on this partnership. In Wisconsin, LSC …
HeinOnline Expands Topical Taxonomy to Include Broader Categories & Subjects
For a while now, HeinOnline has assigned topics to each article in the Law Journal Library database. This allows researchers to get a general idea of the scope of the article before they dive in …
A New Goliath? Merged Legal Publishers Casemaker & Fastcase Available to Virtually Every US Lawyer as Bar Association Benefit
Today, legal publishers Casemaker and Fastcase announced their merger thereby creating the largest legal research platform by subscriber count – over one million. According to the press release: The two companies will combine their teams …
Badgerlink for Lawyers & Legal Professionals Online Training
If you’ve been following WisBlawg, you know that I’ve periodically blogged about Badgerlink, a collection of amazing resources available for free to all state residents via Wisconsin’s libraries through funding from the DPI. Badgerlink databases contain …
Free Law Project Has Complete Collection of Federal Tax Opinions
From the Free Law Project: We are happy to announce that we have compiled, collected and analyzed the complete collection of precedential federal tax opinions from the Board of Tax Appeals (1924-1942) and later the …
Report Examines How Federal Agencies Use AI to Support Decisionmaking, Implementation, & Interaction
AI-based tools to support government decisionmaking, implementation, and interaction are already at work in many federal agencies. Yet little is known about how agencies acquire, use, and oversee such AI systems. In an effort to …
Access to Milwaukee Historical Newspapers Hit-and-Miss
Urban Milwaukee reports on the loss of access to the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel archives. The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee is a a Digital Humanities Project sponsored by the History Department in the College of Letters and …