Podcasts & Handouts from the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium
I’ve just learned that the handouts, podcasts, and photos are now available for the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium held last week at Chicago Kent.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I’ve just learned that the handouts, podcasts, and photos are now available for the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium held last week at Chicago Kent.
At the mid-morning session at the Back to the Future Symposium, we learned about the results from various practitioner and librarian surveys regarding legal research practices. Speakers were Sanford Greenberg and Tom Gaylord of Chicago-Kent College of Law and Patrick Meyer of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. There was a lot of interesting data presented, …
I’m down in Chicago today attending the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. The morning session has been very thought provoking. We heard from Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries who spoke about efforts (or lack thereof) of state and federal governments to provide official, authentic legal materials in …
From today’s Capital Times: In celebration of Law Day, Dane County Bar Association members will be staffing an information table at the Dane County Legal Resource Center. Lawyers will answer questions about the law and provide information about legal forms from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and assistance will be available in Spanish from 9 …
Tis’ the season for lectures, it seems. On Thursday, April 5th the Wright Lecture Series presents “The Shared Ideal: The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck.” The lecture will be held at 7pm in the Monona Terrace Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. From the Madison Public Library What’s New …
“The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books” is the topic of a UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies lecture to be held May 12th. Speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the “Anarchist in the Library,” is considered one of the foremost speakers in the world on digital rights, electronic communication and the ethics of …
According to UW Madison News, lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a free lecture, “Reflections of a Man with Two Heads,” at 5 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Room 1100 of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave. From the article: The lecture by Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” “The Burden …
Looks like the Wisconsin State Law Library has an excellent slate of workshops planned this spring and summer. From their Web site: National Library Week Special WSLL Web Tours Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. OR Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. Take a guided tour of the information-packed WSLL website. Explore Wisconsin & Federal …
Litilaw is a new, free online collection of CLE materials and other articles of interest to litigators and other legal professionals. Articles are organized categories including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care, Product Liability, and more. The collection is keyword search-able and all articles are available full-text in PDF format. Search results includes …
The Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal will be hosting their 2007 Colloquium at the Law School (Lubar Commons) this Friday, February 23. This year’s colloquium, “Our Workplace, Our Home: Protecting our Families and Preserving our Dignity,” highlights two authors the journal will be publishing this year. The first speaker, Jill Maxwell of Brooklyn Law School, will …