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Legal Tune Up- Free Help for Wisconsinites with Common Legal Needs

Posted on April 1, 2022

Lift Wisconsin (Legal Intervention for Transforming Wisconsin) just announced the launching of a new tool to help Wisconsinites with common legal needs. The tool is called Legal Tune Up and it is “a mobile first …

Posted in Apps, Legal Assistance, Mobile Devices, News, Social Media, Tools, Uncategorized, Web

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Repeal but Strikes Down State Rules Preemption

Posted on October 1, 2019

From c|net: A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a mixed ruling on the Federal Communications Commission repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules. The court upheld the FCC’s repeal of the rules, but struck down a key provision …

Posted in Communication, Web

New Google Apps Help with Accessibility

Posted on February 8, 2019

Google is working to make communicating easier for those with hearing difficulties, recently releasing two new apps, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier. Live Transcribe works as a “live” transcription tool. It uses cloud-based speech recognition …

Posted in Apps, Communication, Mobile Devices, Tools, Web

Arrest Data Analysis Tool Available from Bureau of Justice Statistics

Posted on September 7, 2017

Established in 1949, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS publishes many reports such as the seminal Crime in the United States as well as …

Posted in Data & Databases, Public Information, Tools, Web

A small but critical change on Congress.gov

Posted on June 30, 2017

  Congress.Gov announced yesterday that with their new version of searching, users will now get slightly different results. The reason? The default operator is now AND and not OR. So, as Congress.Gov’s post points out, …

Posted in Research Strategies, Search Engines, Web

A stopgap measure for eliminating Supreme Court Link Rot

Posted on March 11, 2017

  Link Rot is a pervasive problem in the legal community – so much so that Supreme Court opinions are sometimes riddled with cites to websites that no longer exist, which undermines the entire concept …

Posted in Legal Professionals, Web

CourtListener Frees the Law

Posted on March 9, 2017

The following blog post was written by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library CourtListener is a powerful new free legal research website sponsored by the non-profit Free Law …

Posted in Legal Assistance, Public Information, Research Strategies, Search Engines, Web

Making case law accessible to all

Posted on February 24, 2017

There have been some very exciting advances in the fight to make court documents more freely accessible to everyone. As many legal researchers and law librarians are aware, many legal materials can be relatively rare …

Posted in Digitization, Legal Professionals, Public Information, Web

Lexis.com retiring from Law Schools on December 31

Posted on December 13, 2016

It’s the end of an era as Lexis.com, the long-running and highly regarded database says its final goodbyes to the Law School community. With 100% of Lexis content now migrated to Lexis Advance, the small …

Posted in Data & Databases, Research Strategies, Web

The University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository

Posted on October 25, 2016

Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this …

Posted in Digitization, Libraries & Librarians, Presentations & Workshops, Tools, UW Law School, Web
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