Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Each month, the Milwaukee Public Library holds a free workshop on Patents 101: How to do a Patent Search. The next workshop is scheduled for Monday, April 28th from 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Central Library. For more information call (414) 286-3000. Source: Now @ MPL
Pulitzer Prize wining journalist, Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times will be speaking at UW Madison next week. “How Much Does the Public Really Need to Know? A Reporter’s Perspective on the Post-9/11 Age” Tuesday, April 8 at 2:30 p.m. The Pyle Center University of Wisconsin-Madison 702 Langdon Street
The 2007-2008 Wisconsin International Law Journal’s Symposium entitled “Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US-EU Dialogue” will be held at the University of Wisconsin on Friday, March 7, 2008 in the Health Sciences Learning Center. For more information, visit the symposium Web site. To register, e-mail WILJSymposium@gmail.com by February 29, 2008. The event is free and …
Tomorrow morning I’m speaking at the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference. My presentation is entitled Building Better Briefs: Legal Research and Citation Tools on the Internet. I placed the slides up on Scribd. There is a lot of great legal information on the Internet, but it’s important that you know how to find it …
A free Professional Ethics CLE Program will be held at the UW Law School this Wednesday, November 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 P.M in room 7200 (Lubar Commons). Three Ethics CLE credits for Wisconsin lawyers will be available. No registration is required.
As part of National Library Week, Marquette University Law Library will be hosting Laura N. Gasaway, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law to speak on “Amending the Copyright Act for Libraries” The event will be held at the Marquette University Law School, Friday, April 18, 2008, 12:00 …
This week marks the sixth annual Wisconsin Book Festival, themed “Domestic Tranquility.” The five-day celebration will take place in and around downtown Madison, from October 10-14, 2007. A schedule of events is available on the Web site. Note that there are several in the category law. ——— Update 10/11/07: As I posted a few months …
Thanks to Mary Koshollek for letting me know that the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference schedule is up. The conference will be held on November 29 and 30 at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee. Attendees can choose from four tracks of programming covering Substantive Law, Practice Management, Technology and Ethics/Quality of Life as …
Legal Conference Watch, the blog announced last month from the Gallagher Law Library, has remade itself as the Legal Scholarship Blog. This blog is a collaborative service from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law. The blog features law-related calls for papers, …
Kudos to Mary Whisner and crew for the new blog, Legal Conference Watch. The reference department of the Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law developed this blog in response to a faculty request for help learning about upcoming conferences. Attending and, if possible, presenting papers at conferences is a great …