Data & Databases

Foreclosure Alarm is a new company based out of Madison which offers real-time notifications of all pre-foreclosure filings in Wisconsin. The data is derived from CCAP. From the Attorney Benefits page: Search foreclosure filings based …

Due Process reports that law review articles from Hein Online are now being indexed by Google Scholar. I’ve always liked Google Scholar, but up until recently I haven’t found it particularly helpful for finding law …

Per an email I received from developer Antonio Tomarchio, PreCYdent is reporting some new content: A collection of opinions from major states has recently been added with more to come Later this week, a GPO …

Out of the Jungle reports that “Westlaw has removed all Dialog content with the exception of the copyright databases.” Worse yet, it seems that there was no prior notification. It’s uncertain whether this affects all …

Google has added a new feature in which a secondary search box that appears within some of the search results themselves. See, for example, the search results for a “NASA” search. Note the “Search nasa.gov” …

Since its launch earlier this week, JD Supra is already creating quite a buzz around the blawgosphere. It’s a combination business networking site and shared document repository for legal professionals – quite ingenious actually. And …

With so many great resources available on the Internet at no cost, you may wonder how content creators can afford to offer them for free. Wired magazine has a very useful article which explains Why …

Google Street Views has made its way to Milwaukee. Simply do a Google search for an address in Milwaukee and click on the “Street Views” link in the resulting map. You’ll see a panoramic view …

Google recently announced that you can create forms using spreadsheets in Google Docs. Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to …

Wow – more big news today stemming from the availability of free federal case law. Fastcase has developed a new resource called The Public Library of Law which brings together a wide variety of free …