Category: Data & Databases

A New Goliath? Merged Legal Publishers Casemaker & Fastcase Available to Virtually Every US Lawyer as Bar Association Benefit

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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 and technologies to innovate research, analytics, and workflow offerings that empower lawyers with powerful digital solutions for their clients. The …

Badgerlink for Lawyers & Legal Professionals Online Training

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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 over 11,000 periodical titles and over 700 newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many Wisconsin newspapers), …

Free Law Project Has Complete Collection of Federal Tax Opinions

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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 United States Tax Court (1942-). Our collection of tax cases spans two courts, nearly a century, and comprises nearly twenty-four …

Report Examines How Federal Agencies Use AI to Support Decisionmaking, Implementation, & Interaction

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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 fill these gaps, the Administrative Conference of the United States commissioned a report from researchers at Stanford University and New …

Access to Milwaukee Historical Newspapers Hit-and-Miss

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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 Science at UW-Milwaukee. The growing database includes “approximately 700 entries on Milwaukee history topics ranging from arts and culture to …

Federal Circuit Hears Oral Arguments on Excessive PACER fees – Skeptical of DOJ Jurisdictional Argument

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Earlier this week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the legality of fees charged by the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. The suit, NVLSP v. U.S., was brought by three national nonprofit organizations (the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the National …

Attorney Ethical Obligations re Cloud Computing, Computer Security, & Strong Passwords

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With all of the sensitive and confidential information entrusted to attorneys, data security is an essential part of doing business.  In Wisconsin, attorneys have an ethical obligation to understand the importance of computer security as outlined by Wisconsin Ethics Opinion EF-15-01: Ethical Obligations of Attorneys Using Cloud Computing.  It states: “A lawyer may use cloud computing …

Search Full Text State Constitutional Documents

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Interested in state constitutional issues?  Check out the new state constitutional electronic collection from the Rutgers Law Library.  The collection contains Constitutions, Constitutional Convention records, and other related documents for the constitutions of the 50 United States. Browse documents by state or do an individual or combined search across all 50 states.  

Milwaukee Bar Association 2019 Law & Technology Conference

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In most states, including Wisconsin, an attorney’s duty to keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice now includes “the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.”  ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Comment 8 and Wisconsin Supreme Court Rule 20:1.1, Comment 8. A great way to learn about the benefits and risks …

U.S. Congressional Reports & Documents back to 1817 to be Freely Accessible Online

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The U.S. Government Publishing Office has announced that it is working with the Law Library of Congress to digitize and make freely accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set back to the first volume published in 1817.  The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, contains the Reports and Documents …