Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Yesterday we reported that The Wall Street Journal full-text was being pulled from Westlaw. It seems that LexisNexis has picked it up. According to LexisNexis InfoPro, they are now the only online provider to offer the legal market access to Factiva news sources, including the WSJ. BUT, bad news for law school users: Factiva content …
Although it’s been up since November, I’ve just noticed that the UW Law School Student Bar Association has a blog. Nice. From SBA President, Nathan Lundby: The University of Wisconsin Law School Student Bar Association (SBA) is the representative organization for the law school’s student body. We represent students in dealing with the faculty and …
DCLRC Blawg will be reporting on planned Law Day events in Dane County: One event that will be scheduled is the Legal Information Booth, staffed by volunteer lawyers from the Dane County Bar Association. It will be held Friday April 29 near the Martin Luther King Blvd entrance of the Dane Co Courthouse, during a …
Looking for state tax forms or e-filing Web sites? The Federation of Tax Administrators has clickable maps of both tax forms by state and state-sponsored electronic filing sites by state.
ECOLEX, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), is a free database of international environmental law documents. It includes multilateral treaties, national legislation, European Union instruments, international “soft law” and related documents, law and policy literature, and court decisions. You can search by subject area, keyword, country, or date.
As of March 1st, Westlaw now carries the full text of The New York Times since 1980 and abstracts since 1969. However, The Wall Street Journal coverage has switched from full text to abstracts only. This is due to a larger change: Dialog news materials (branded by Westlaw as “NewsRoom”) have replaced Factiva as the …
In the wake of the ChoicePoint personal data thefts, LexisNexis is no longer offering public records searching via their pay-per-use services, LexisNexis AlaCarte and LexisNexis by Credit Card. Source: TVC Alert & House of Butter
The UW Law Library has revised our fee schedule for our Outlaw document delivery and inter-library loan service. For a list of other libraries offering fax/mail/email delivery of legal materials, see Sources of Legal Information for the Wisconsin Attorney – Suppliers of Legal Information by Fax, Mail, or Email.
The Wisconsin Western Bankruptcy Court is offering a RSS feed for notification of new orders (including judgments) and complaints filed. Each time a new document is filed, the court sends a notice with the docket number and party names. By clicking on the link, you will be directed to view the full docket in PACER …
The Wisconsin Court System has recently published the Winter 2005 edition of The Third Branch. Highlights include the impact of the Governor’s budget bill on the courts, the relationship between media and the courts, pro se video series, jury trial statistics, and more.