Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Thinking of starting your own blawg? The blog, Notes from the (Legal) Underground, offers fourteen tips on Finding Your Voice in the Blawgosphere. These tips are especially useful for potential blawgers because they focus on specifically on the legal market. Source: Thanks to Paula Seeger at the DCLRC for the tip
The November 2004 edition of the DCLRC Docket (Dane County Legal Resource Center) is now available. Voter resources are highlighted.
Two Election 2004 resources available: – Debate Transcripts: Search and analyze the complete transcript from the presidential and vice presidential debates. Installation free askSam Viewer is required. – Video Archive: Includes “everything from debate footage from C-SPAN to politically themed rap videos…and lots and lots of campaign advertising from the candidates themselves as well as …
Learn about recent enhancements to Westlaw and LexisNexis in LLRX.com’s article, Lexis and Westlaw Revisited. Featured are Westlaw Past Stats and Lexis Practitioner’s Toolbox.
I just heard about a fairly new service from LexisNexis called Research On Call. For a fee, LexisNexis research specialists will perform research tasks for you. Sounds interesting. I’m not endorsing the service – just passing on the information. According to LexisNexis, examples of the types and areas of research available include case evaluation, discovery, …
It appears that pending software modifications, U.S. criminal case documents filed on or after November 1, 2004 (unless they are sealed) will now be available via PACER. This is due to a change in the privacy policy restricting online access to criminal documents. For those unfamiliar with PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), it …
According to Findlaw’s article, Google’s New PC Search Tool Poses Risks, using a shared computer on which Google Desktop has been installed could be a privacy risk. People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google’s free new tool that indexes …
According to Deputy Revisor of Statutes, Bruce Hoesly, the next web update to the Wisconsin Statutes & Constitution due shortly after Nov. 1, will include links from annotations to cited 1995 and newer Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions on the Wisconsin Court System website.
Electiononline.org has created a report entitled, Election Preview 2004: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t and Why? Abstract: Just two weeks before Election Day, this report details the “state of play” of election reform around the country. It describes how election reform, enacted by the federal government after the 2000 debacle in Florida, could help to avert …
Feedme Legal is a new blog about webfeeds, weblogs and the legal profession. According to the author, it’s main purpose is two-fold: · to add another voice to those lauding the potential benefits of such technology, but purely in the context of the practice of law and the sharing of legal knowledge with clients, potential …