Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A recent study by Ross E. Davies, editor in chief of The Green Bag and a professor of law at George Mason University reveals that print subscriptions to law reviews are declining dramatically. Davies compared the subscription numbers for the flagship law reviews of 15 top tier law schools and found that all of them …
This morning the State Bar of Wisconsin distributed its first issue of a new electronic newsletter called WisBar InsideTrack. The newsletter, which will be published twice a month on the first and third Wednesdays, is available to State Bar members. Content will include everything from “practice management tips to timely insight into legislative, court, and …
WisconsinEye has recently released WisEye Alert! Subscribe to WisEye Alert and receive a daily email with schedule and programming highlights for the WisconsinEye channel and website. A RSS feed is also available.
From a WI Department of Transportation press release: Motorists can now get up-to-the-minute travel information by either dialing 511 or going to a new Web site offered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The Web site, www.511wi.gov, provides travelers with traffic and road information on Wisconsin’s main highways, including the Interstate system. The new Web …
From UW Madison News: Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence. Stinson’s attorneys with the Wisconsin Innocence Project and Milwaukee County District Attorney Norm Gahn have agreed that the new evidence — consisting …
Have you been hearing the buzz about social networking but aren’t sure if it’s worth your time and effort to check it out? What is social networking? What possible use could it be to a legal professional, you ask? Practicing Law in the 21st Century has written a good post which asks Can Lawyers Afford …
I’m a heavy user of our local public library. I love that I can go online, put things on hold, and then pick them up at my leisure. Keeping track of when things come in and when they are due back again can be a hassle, however. Enter Library Elf, a handy little service which …
Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Mark Burton to pen the bigscreen adaptation of James Turner’s comicbook “Rex Libris,” about an everyday guy who becomes part of a secret sect of librarians who battle forces of darkness in chasing down overdue or stolen books. Source: PLI Library Relations
This one is just for UW–Madison folks: The UW Madison Libraries have created a remote access bookmarklet. Why should I care, you might ask? Imagine that you want to access one of the databases to which the UW–Madison Libraries subscribe, such as Hein Online. So you do a Google search for Hein Online and come …
“Zotero helps you collect and manage citations. Zotz helps you make them public.” From Zotero: The Zotero team is making solid progress on a variety of collaborative features. But, if you want to publish and share items today, you might be interested in Zotz. The Zotz plugin allows you to publish Zotero collections through MIT’s …