Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
After almost a year’s absence, the American Law Reports are now available again on Lexis. Here’s the announcement from my Lexis rep: The following publications are again accessible on Lexis.com via the Legal menu > expand Secondary Legal sources: ALR (American Law Reports) Witkin Library State Jurisprudences for Florida, New York, Ohio and Texas American …
Blogging continues to increase in popularity among large law firms according to LexBlog’s, Kevin O’Keefe. His November 2008 State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere reveals the following: Growth highlights: Over 35% of AmLaw 200 law firms have blogs. 12% of AmLaw 200 law firms have more than one blog. 32% growth in last 8 months …
Free access to the English Reports from 1220-1873 is now available from the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). The English Reports database contains 124,882 cases and the full text of the Reports are searchable. Users are then provided with the original image of a case when it appears in the search results, sorted in likely …
The Capital Times has a nice article on the UW Law School’s Mock Trial team. The team finished second-place at a tournament in Los Angeles last month.
Black Friday will soon be upon us. The day after Thanksgiving is one of if not THE biggest shopping day of the year. If you’re planning to brave the crowds, it pays to do a little pre-planning so you can maximize your time by knowing where you can get the best deals. A site called …
A federal judge has disallowed attorneys to recover electronic legal research fees as part of a $31.5 million settlement against Coca-Cola. From Law.com: Among the expenses [U.S. District Court Judge Willis B.] Hunt disallowed was $93,960.67 for LexisNexis, Westlaw and Online Library Research, writing, “This Court is of the opinion that charging separately for use …
Google has recently released a LIFE magazine photo archive. The archive contains millions of photographs, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time. I particularly enjoyed this cover image titled “The Good Life in Madison, Wisconsin” dated September 6, 1948.
From Channel 3000: Wisconsin students can study for their SAT and ACT exams for free on a new state Web site. KnowHow2GoWisconsin announced Friday that its Web site now has tutorials and interactive practice sessions for the two college entrance exams as well as the graduate school exam known as the GRE. Milwaukee and Madison-area …
There’s a new addition to the Wisconsin blawgosphere – Wisconsin Lawyers Blog. Welcome! From the Wisconsin Law Journal: With 8 Wisconsin attorneys blogging at the site, in the categories of civil litigation, real estate, business law, personal injury, and intellectual property, it will be a great addition to the legal community.
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Alta Charo has been selected for President Elect Obama’s HHS agency review team. How exciting! Professor Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School’s Department …