Map of Free Legal Resources Provided by State Bar Associations
3 Geeks and a Law Blog had created a nifty map of free legal resources provided by State Bar Associations. Looks like Casemaker and Fastcase top the list.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
3 Geeks and a Law Blog had created a nifty map of free legal resources provided by State Bar Associations. Looks like Casemaker and Fastcase top the list.
According to Law Librarian Blog, PreCYdent – one of the free online legal search services – is no longer available. Apparently it folded due to lack of funds.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has recently compiled a report on The Google Library Project: Is Digitization for Purposes of Online Indexing Fair Use Under Copyright Law? The report offers some background of the project and discusses the legal implications: “First, does an entity conducting an unauthorized digitization and indexing project avoid committing copyright infringement …
Greg Lambert over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog reports on his conversation with Google Scholar Chief Engineer Anurag Acharya. First of all, let me address the questions that I’m sure a lot of you have been asking: “Can Google Scholar Legal and Online Journal replace my Westlaw or Lexis content?” My answer: “Absolutely …
Madison Public Library has acquired an online subscription to the Value Line Investment Survey. The service is available at all nine Madison public libraries or remotely to city of Madison residents with valid library cards. From Check It Out: Value Line is best known for the Investment Survey, one of the most widely read investment …
There is a new database available on BadgerLink* called HeritageQuest Online. It offers a treasury of American genealogical sources, including some legal material. HeritageQuest Online contains the following: U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In …
“Need to subpoena Facebook or Gmail? If you do, then you’ll need to know where to serve the subpoena.” Jon Groth’s Wisconsin Personal Injury Weblog points to a useful site called SEARCH which contains contact info for the legal departments of various Internet service providers (ISP) and similar information services. This information may be useful …
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula discusses CorporationWiki, a web site for company research. The website allows the researcher to search businesses in over 25 states. It also supports an index to browse by company name or a person’s name…. One tool that can be very useful is the “relationship visualizer.” It is …
Mark Gediman at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has an interesting post about law firm cost recovery for online database charges. I find myself constantly explaining/defending/justifying our cost recovery policy. Maybe I’ve been sampling the Kool-aid along the way, but I’ve come to realize that most firms that charge back for online services are …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has expanded its agreement with Google to digitize books from UW–Madison’s collection and make them available online. From a press release issued this morning: The expanded partnership, completed on July 8, 2009, enables the university to broaden public access to its collection in new ways, made possible by the settlement Google …