Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
On of my favorite sites for finding sources of primary law on the Internet is American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!). In addition to providing a very comprehensive list of links to freely accessible sources of law for the US, the states, Canada and Mexico, ALSO! also has links to law reviews, briefs, and more on …
Mary Ellen Bates has compiled a great list of suggestions for quickly finding the answers to strange research questions. In Searching for Quick Answers To Odd Questions, she instructs users to consult the topic-specific databases (a.k.a. the invisible Web) rather than using general search engines. This is the same advice that I offer in my …
TIME Magazine has made available its entire archive of articles since 1923 available via the Web. Although searching is free, the full-text of articles is only available with a subscription to the print edition of TIME. But before you subscribe, remember that the full-text of TIME since 1990 is available free of charge to Wisconsinites …
Quickly following the news of Yahoo! VideoSearch was the release of Blinkx TV Video Search. Despite its name, Blinkx also searches radio programs. But Blinkx goes a step beyond Yahoo! and other video search engines by using speech recognition technology to transcribe the broadcasts, thereby enabling users to keyword search the entire clip. Although the …
Robert Ambrogi of Law Technology News has compiled a list of “some useful, intriguing law-related sites that launched this year.” There is some good stuff here – many were new to me. Source: The E-LawLibrary Weblog
This month’s Site-tation from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has an informative article entitle, Lemon Juice, Cornstarch, and Microsoft: Invisible Ink And Your Documents. Originally published in the Summer 2004 issue of the Wisconsin State Bar Section of Law Practice’s Law Practice News, the article warns that MS Word documents can unintentionally reveal sensitive …
Disgruntled litigants are getting creative. According to an article in Findlaw, a Manhattan woman put her housing court judge for sale on eBay to attract attention to her case. “After four days on eBay, the best offer for the judge was $127.50.” Source: Stark County Law Library Blawg
Yahoo is beta testing a new video search engine. According to SearchEngineWatch, they are also introducing a new RSS-based video enclosure for producers to include with video content which will help Yahoo (and others) discover and index media content. In the advanced search, you may limit by format, size, duration, domain, and safe search filtered. …
Amy Gannaway has written an informative article on Using the Wisconsin Legislature Web Site which appears in the December issue of The Wisconsin Lawyer. She offers guidance on “looking up and tracking legislative, statutory, and regulatory information, including bills, acts, statutes, and the Administrative Code, and on using the Wisconsin Legislature Web site.” Ms. Gannaway …
The Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission has made the 2004 Equal Rights Decision Digest available on the Web. From the site: The Equal Rights Decision Digest is a digital resource containing summaries of significant administrative and judicial decisions arising under Wisconsin’s equal rights laws. The summaries are organized according to their subject matter. Where …