Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Jan. 2006 DCLRC Docket, the newsletter of the Dane County Legal Resource Center: REMINDER: UPCOMING CLOSINGS DCLRC will be closed Friday January 13 while we move into the new courthouse and Monday January 16 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. The Small Claims Assistance Program will move to its new location starting …
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) is offering a handful of free online workshops this spring. Topics include Internet searching, travel planning, starting a wiki, and more. Source: Beyond the Job
Tis the season for year-end top ten lists. But none are as fun as a good old Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten like these from the Top Ten Archive: Top Ten Signs You’ve Hired a Bad Lawyer (June 03, 1998) Top Ten David Letterman Tips For Being A Good Juror (June 12, 2000) …
According to BoingBoing, prosecutors in South Korea will begin issuing indictments via text message in the coming year.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, downtown Madison’s wi-fi project has come to life, albeit a small one. Computer users within several hundred feet of the YWCA at 101 E. Mifflin St. should be able to pick up a signal from a transmitter atop the building, said Dick Grasmick, the city of Madison’s chief computer …
From PI Newslink, the blog of private investigator, Tamara Thompson comes a pair of Web tools for finding documentation on a private business: – The Small Business Administration maintains database of companies to which they’ve made loans. The returns can include the gross receipts of the business, number of employees and owners. – The U.S. …
It seems that many things from my youth that are making a come back these days. A trip to Toys-R-Us is like taking a trip down memory lane – Strawberry Shortcake, Scooby Doo, Care Bears, Cabbage Patch Kids… But this blast-from-the-past made me laugh out loud. From BoingBoing: “Two students [from] the University of Michigan, …
Thanks to PDF for Lawyers for the link to the Electronic Discovery Primer for Judges in the Federal Courts Law Review from February 2005. From the abstract: The law of electronic discovery is beginning to emerge, but most issues are so unexplored that judges must still develop much important law… This article is a practical …
An article I wrote entitled, “RSS: It’s About Time” appears in this month’s edition of Connecting… (the newsletter of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries). The article offers a basic introduction to RSS and explores its usefulness for legal research. Topics covered include: What is RSS? – what …
Looking for a little humor to lighten the mood or perhaps make a point? Check out OhNoRobot, a search engine for the text in online comic strips. A couple of caveats courtesy of LibrarianInBlack (from whom I discovered OhNoRobot): – A lot of the more mainstream online comics aren’t included. There are about 232 comics …