Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Newspapers can be a rich source of historical information, but finding articles on your topics of interest can be difficult – particularly for older articles. Fortunately, several state libraries offer indexes to Wisconsin newspapers. The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Library maintains a collection of newspaper and magazine article clippings, organized by subject and arranged chronologically. …
Digital Inspiration has a handy list of free tools for working with PDF documents if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat. The list covers everything from creating PDFs, to merging PDFs, to setting password restrictions, to filling in PDF forms and more. Source: PDF for Lawyers
From Zotero: George Mason University has released an official statement about the Thomson Reuters lawsuit. The press release is copied below. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over Zotero, a project based at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM). A free and open-source software initiative, Zotero aims …
CiteGenie is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website promises, “automagically” creates Bluebook formatted pinpoint citations when copying from Westlaw. Wow – this is really impressive. If you’re a Westlaw user, this could save you a lot of time when writing papers or briefs. I’ve created a quick video of …
The next time you need to schedule a meeting, give Doodle a try. Doodle is free, although you may run into ads here and there. Here’s how it works: Create a poll – choose several possible times for the meeting Forward the link to the poll to the participants Follow participant responses online See the …
From Slashdot: Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia’s George Mason University develops Zotero, a free and open source plugin to Mozilla Firefox that researchers may use to manage citations. Thomson alleges that GMU’s Center …
From Slashdot: Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia’s George Mason University develops Zotero, a free and open source plugin to Mozilla Firefox that researchers may use to manage citations. Thomson alleges that GMU’s Center …
Yesterday a representative from Zotero, Trevor Owens, gave a demo to our law school faculty. To say that they were impressed would be an understatement – there were actual squeals of delight. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. I’ve known about it for a …
In response to privacy concerns, Google will be blurring out any human face appearing in Google Maps street views. Street views are available in Google Maps for both Milwaukee and Madison. Simply do a Google search for an address in either city and click on the “Street Views” link in the resulting map. You’ll see …
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could have your voice mail e-mailed or texted to you instead of having to call back in to your number?” “What if you could leave customized greetings for people in your address book?” These are the questions asked – and answered – by YouMail, a free external voicemail service …