Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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Look for a new version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to arrive before the new year. The new release will feature enhanced collaboration tools including a commenting feature. Read more in the CNet article, Adobe to update PDF tools Source: ResourceShelf
A few weeks ago, we mentioned that you can use Google and Yahoo to find out if a library in your area has a particular item. To do a search, remember that you go to either Google or Yahoo and enter the search find in a library: Da Vinci Code Now, Yahoo has made it …
It seems that the practice of running criminal background checks on potential jurors by Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutors has prompted a request for a new trial. According to the article, Jurors Checked for Criminal Past: Timothy Jordan, charged with aggravated murder, asked a judge this week for a new trial on grounds that Allen’s office …
From the LRB, comes a brief list of Wisconsin State Officers (Wisconsin Brief 04−18). The list contains constitutional officers, members of the U.S. Congress, supreme court justices, and members of the Wisconsin Legislature, as of January 3, 2005. An alphabetical listing of all state officers is included. Source: Legislative Reference Bureau News Feed (If you …
According to an article in BusinessWeek online: The U.S. is moving closer to requiring citizens to have an identity card that could be scanned from a distance. By the end of 2005, U.S. passports will come with embedded radio-tag chips — and Congress is considering mandating similar technology in driver’s licenses. The government argues that …
Online bank users beware. From the Strategiy article, New technique for stealing financial information from computer users: Researchers from SurfControl’s Global Threat Command Centers this week identified a technique used to exploit flaws in the Web sites for SunTrust Bank and Citibank Australia. Phishers substituted the legitimate content of the Citibank and Sun Trust’s Web …
The following is a list of libraries in Wisconsin that offer fax, mail, or email delivery of legal infomation. It is excerpted from my longer work, Sources of Legal Information for the Wisconsin Attorney, compiled in June 2004. Marquette University Law Library 1-414-288-7092 Will deliver: Cases, legislation, regulations, journal articles, etc. Cost: Articles, etc.: Prices …
The GAO recently conducted a study on the use of social security numbers in public records. According to the study highlights: Social Security numbers appear in any number of records exposed to public view almost everywhere in the nation, primarily at the state and local levels of government. State agencies in 41 states and the …
As a blogger, I’ve come to rely quite heavily on other blogs and RSS feeds for current awareness. Well, I finally got around to reading the stack of print journals on my desk and came across an article in the October/November 2004 issue of Law Office Computing comparing Loislaw, VersusLaw, and National Law Library, three …