Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The suspension of a Marquette University dental student for violation of professional conduct codes resulting from negative comments on a blog has created a controversy on and off campus. From the JS Online article: What bothers Taylor [Scott Taylor, the student’s attorney] and others is what they call vagueness of Marquette’s codes of conduct and …
From the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau’s Governing Wisconsin series: Lobbying in Wisconsin: What Do Lobbyists Do and How Are They Regulated in Wisconsin?
According to prosecutors in Durham County, NC, a man on trial for murdering his wife Googled the terms “body decomposition,” “rigor mortis,” “neck” and “break,” as well as, downloaded a topical map of a lake bed in the days before he dumped the her remains in the same body of water. According to the article …
From the December 2005 WSLL At Your Service, the newsletter of the Wisconsin State Law Library Circulation By Mail for Judges and Attorneys When time or distance prevents you from visiting the Wisconsin State Law Library to borrow materials, we can ship them directly to your office with our Circulation By Mail service. Anyone licensed …
My kids love going to our local public library. Besides the really cool Thomas train set, they always want to check out a slew of books. While I encourage reading, a part of me cringes every time I take a stack up to the circulation desk. How on earth am I going to keep track …
Neil Squillante & Sara Skiff over at Technolawyer have put together a very nice collection of “thought-provoking essays from the most influential blawgs” in the newly published eBook, BlawgWorld 2006. The essays were handpicked by each respective blogger as most representative of their blawg. There are some really great blawgs here – some which you …
EBSCO, provider of well-known databases such as Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Academic Search Elite, and Business Source Elite, will be offering a RSS option for alerts starting early next year. According to the announcement from EBSCO, RSS enabled Alerts will allow librarians and users to feed results from EBSCOhost Search and Journal Alerts …
To those of you who subscribe to WisBlawg via email: I’ve decided to change the service I use to syndicate via email from Bloglet to FeedBlitz. I’m making the change because Bloglet, unfortunately, has not always been reliable. In addition, the layout of the FeedBlitz email messages should be a bit more organized. Fortunately, you …
Information specialist, Phil Bradley has compiled a very useful guide to finding information with search engines. The chart is divided into two columns: What do you need to find, and what do you already know? and then tells you What is the best resource to make use of? For example, when you want a quick …
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is has developed a handy little tool for comparing state open records and open meetings laws. Keyword search or browse the topic outline. Select multiple states for a comparison of provisions such as “who can request records – purpose of request” As with any legal information you …