There is an interesting article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education on the results of the 2008 Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The author particularly discusses one section of the report, Computers in the …
PDF Tools: Alternatives to Acrobat
Digital Inspiration has a handy list of free tools for working with PDF documents if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat. The list covers everything from creating PDFs, to merging PDFs, to setting password restrictions, to …
Researching Layoff Data
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula offers tips for researching layoff information. One of the databases she mentions is JWT Inside’s Layoff Report Database. The researcher can search by week or keyword. The …
Monitor State of Wisconsin Administrative Rulemaking Process
Updated: 7/22/2013 I’ve recently been made aware of the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rules Home Page. Wisconsin state agencies value your involvement in agency decision-making and have created this website to make it easy for …
Madison Magazine's 2009 Top Lawyers
Madison Magazine ranks the city’s top lawyers in their January issue. Madison Magazine’s 2009 Top Lawyers peer survey reveals who the legal eagles in our community would turn to if they needed some advice. With …
Legal Ramifications of Twitter Use
An article in Law.com’s Legal Technology section offers some thoughts on the legal ramifications of Twitter use. Lawyers caution… that Twitter carries a number of legal risks. Users posting tweets from corporate networks could expose …
WI Supreme Court Takes Step Toward Creation of Legal Aid Organization
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has taken the first step toward creating a nonprofit organization to provide more legal help for the poor, reports JS Online. “This month, the court voted 6-0, with Justice David Prosser abstaining, …
Recent UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
Here’s the latest scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Financing the Next Silicon Valley, Darian M. Ibrahim, University of Wisconsin Law School Fair Taxation as a …
Comparision of Legislative Resources on GPO Access v. Other Government and Commercial Sites
GPO Access has recently conducted a comparison of legislative resources available in its collection with those in other government websites and commercial databases such as Westlaw, LexisNexis and HeinOnline. The report concludes that “one of …
Australian Court Serves Documents via Facebook
An Australian court has ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. The courts already allow service by email and text message. Read more from the Sydney Morning Herald: …