Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Brand new for your reading leisure! This delightful book takes you way behind the scenes of the Supreme Court, and spotlights the culinary traditions that have been a part of the institution since its first session in 1790. From cover to cover readers will be rewarded with recipes, wonderful photos, and stories brimming with history. …
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg Law Library Stacks: KF8745 .G56 A3 2016 Book Review by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian My Own Words is a delightful read. The words and stories are hers. A woman ahead of her time. Lucky in love to have met life partner, Marty, who was her champion in …
As with all careers, there are times when lawyers must question their professional choices. I think that the attorneys involved in this deposition with the man who ‘follows the chicken’ most certainly had a few of those moments, though they probably got a few laughs out of it as well. The New York Times, …
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Yesterday, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California judge ruled that the long-claimed copyright in the song, “Happy Birthday” is invalid. From the New York Times: The decision, by Judge George H. King of United States District Court in Los Angeles, is a blow …
The Wisconsin Film Festival will be showing Gideon’s Army, a documentary about the daily work lives of three present day public defenders, at the Marquee Theater in Union South on Thursday April 11 at 9:00p. Tickets are on sale now, $8.00 for the general public or $5.00 with a student ID. Hat tip to my …
Check out JS Online for a review of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre production, Trying, “about a crusty and cranky old lawyer butting heads with a determined secretary from the Canadian prairies.” From the MCT Web site: Georgetown, November 1967. Cantankerous Judge Francis Biddle, once Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Attorney General, must hire yet another new secretary …