Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Genie Tyburski has announced that she’s closing down The Virtual Chase. Wow – the end of an era. I will take down the site gradually over the next several months unless I find someone willing to archive it or continue its development. I anticipate that the site will be completely offline by no later than …
Bev Butula over at the Wisconsin Law Journal blog has put together a useful guide to researching “green” issues. The list also appeared in the print edition of this week’s Wisconsin Law Journal on page 10A.
It’s my pleasure to announce a new blawg from the Wisconsin Law Journal. Research and Resources, authored by fellow law librarian, Bev Butula, will “introduce quality websites and search tips to improve your online research experience.” Bev’s inaugural post highlights several of the resources available from the Wisconsin State Law Library.
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, …
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included is Should Legal Research Be Included on the Bar Exam? An Exploration of the Question by the UW Law Library’s …
The Litigation Podcast from the ABA Section of Litigation promises to serve up practical tips, tactics, and interviews with today’s leading trial attorneys. Looks like there have been some interesting topics so far, including one on Quick and Dirty Research.
From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because some scenes were filmed in the law library.
Scott Hawksworth over at DegreeTutor has created a very useful guide for online research called the Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines. It covers “things librarians understand about search – and things that anyone doing online research can benefit from.” These things include discussion of where search engines are and where they are going, a …
Mary J. Koshollek, director of information and records services at Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee has written an excellent article on evaluating websites in the November issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer. In Assessing Information on the Internet, Mary describes the whys and hows of evaluating the authority of Internet materials. Abstract: This article provides …
Southern Illinois University Law Librarians Diane Murley and Amber Hewette have written a new book entitled, Law for the Layperson: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-help Law Books. It is available from Hein and Amazon. Nearly 1,000 self-help books and other resources are reviewed and classified by topic and jurisdiction. The book is intended to help …