Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
We librarians have been monitoring this one. About a week ago, the Department of Justice asked the Superintendent of Documents to instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of several DOJ publications, mostly dealing with asset forfeiture. DOJ claimed that the documents were “training materials and other materials that the DOJ staff did not feel …
Findlaw has released a new lawyer / law firm directory called Thomson Legal Record. A unique feature of the directory is that it not only offers attorney profiles, but it also gives citations to select federal and state cases the attorney litigated. Search by legal issue and/or jurisdiction (you can specify circuit, court, and judge). …
Anyone that knows LLRX.com knows that they publish a lot of really great research guides. (And if you don’t know LLRX.com, I highly suggest that you take a look.) One of the latest is a Search Engine Comparison Chart from Diana Botluk. It is a very useful comparison of some of the more advanced search …
Law Dawg Blawg, a new blog from the Southern Illinois University Law Librarians, posted this list of blawg directories. (In case you haven’t made the connection yet – I didn’t right away – a blawg is a law-related blog.) The Blawg Channel is a group weblog or “blog” with contributions from several prominent legal bloggers. …
The Dane County Legal Resource Center has just published their August 2004 edition of DCLRC Docket. Highlights include sources of legal assistance & information and a schedule of upcoming free legal research workshops.
Here is a blurb from Law.com’s article, Blogs Dot the Litigation Landscape, about the recent trend of blogging from the courtroom. Michael Jackson has one. Martha Stewart paid top dollar for hers. And the Justice Department got one as a gift in its antitrust trial against Oracle Corp. Web sites dedicated to a specific trial are …
Update (8/3/04): Gary Price, of ResourceShelf, emailed me the other day – very cool. His shared with me that his favorite alert tool is WebSite-Watcher. The cost is $30. He also reminded me that Feedster offers an email alert service. ———————— Some of my favorite tools are Internet alert services – where you choose what …
From: beSpacific “A University of Texas at Austin study evaluating how often 30 newspapers refresh their respective website content indicated that ‘only 12 updated their home pages frequently, and the rest made few or no changes during the day.’ [Link]” According to the article: The 12 newspapers with the most updates during the period studied …
Update: This article is now available electronically on the Wisconsin Law Journal web site. Link now appears in text below. —————————– For some good advice on search engine alternatives, check out “Beyond Google-Alternate Search Engines Enhance Research” in the July 21, 2004 issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal. The author is Bev Betula, Vice President …
Blogger JD posts 7 Things RSS is Good For. They are: 1. Saving time 2. Convenience 3. Access to a richer pool of material 4. Zero in on the info you want 5. RSS can serve as an alert service 6. RSS levels the playing field 7. RSS drives conversation Read more at jd’s New Media …