Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A recent survey by Bloomberg Law offers insights on law students’ preparedness for practice. Bloomberg asked over 1,000 practicing attorneys, law school students, faculty, and librarians about the skills needed for practice and how well law schools prepared individuals to enter the legal profession. Responses indicate that new attorneys would benefit from having more skills …
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 …
I’m pleased to share that an article I co-wrote, Inspiring Innovation: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating the Web 2.0 Challenge, appears in the latest Legal Information & Technology eJournal on SSRN (available by subscription). In the article, my co-authors and I discuss the Web 2.0 Challenge, a five week, online course designed to introduce popular Web …
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, …
Tony Chan, information specialist at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee and LLAW Government Relations Committee Chair, has written an excellent article on Gathering Competitive Intelligence for Litigators and Business Lawyers. In the article, which appears in the April 2007 Wisconsin Lawyer, Tony covers: Online Sources of Public Records Background Checks Finding Company and Industry Information …
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 …
Nerino Petro’s Compujurist reports that effective January 29, 2007, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin has approved On-Demand CLE for Wisconsin attorneys. Supreme Court Rule 31.01(6m) is created to read: “Repeated on-demand program” means an on-line program delivered over the Internet, repeating a program previously approved by the board, and given at a time of the …
TechnoLawyer Blog has a very handy guide to the Top 10 Hidden Features of PowerPoint for Litigators. Author Timothy Piganelli explains how to: easily add and images and video to a presentation customize backgrounds display your presentation on a projector while having the edit screen display on your laptop advance to any slide out of …
Thanks to Jim Milles for the post about Bob Berring’s podcasting project. From the site: In the Berring on Legal Research DVD set, Professor Robert C. Berring provides expert, holistic instruction on the core principles of effective legal research. Now, Professor Berring, in conjunction with West, will be producing rich supplemental podcasts, which will explore …
The Association of College and Research Libraries has prepared a useful toolkit entitled The Power of Personal Persuasion. Although it is targeted toward academic librarians, the content can be applied to anyone. According to the toolkit, the six major principles of persuasion are (paraphrased): Principle of Reciprocation (If you gave me a favor, I owe …