Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I’m very honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Unsung Heroes award. The awards were presented at a luncheon at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee last Friday. The award I received was in the Law Library staff category. WLJ also recognized award winners in seven other …
From BBC News: Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org has released a new site that tracks the incidence of flu in the US based on terms used in Google searches. Is there anything that Google can’t do? Thanks to my colleague, Nancy Paul for the tip.
Kirk’s lawyer, Samuel T. Cogley, defends the value of law books over computerized research. Glad to know that they’ll still be around in the 23rd century. Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: Oct. 31 marked the State Bar of Wisconsin’s roll-out of its newest, and by far most significant, member benefit: It launched free access to Fastcase for bar members… A couple of months ago, I talked to law librarian Mary J. Koshollek, of Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee, about Fastcase …
From the November WSLL @ Your Service newsletter: 2009 After Hours Subscriptions – Now’s the Time! Wisconsin Attorneys: Would you like the convenience of using the State Law Library later in the evening or on weekends? Now’s the time to subscribe to our After Hours Service. A calendar-year subscription includes access to the library from …
Earlier this week the UW Madison campus libraries added links from the MadCat library catalog to online versions of volumes in Google Books Search or the CIC shared digital repository,HathiTrust. If an item we have in MadCat has been digitized by Google and is present in the Google Books or HathiTrust database, the MadCat record …
The American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Contest. Currently enrolled students attending graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related subjects are eligible to enter the competition. Papers may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. Papers must be …
From Law.com: UC-Berkeley School of Law researchers say they have identified tests that could be used along with it to better predict success in the practice of law. And the law school’s dean is trying to round up support from other schools to take the research to a national level. Roughly 10 years have passed …
Thanks to Scott Frey who alerted me to some changes with CiteGenie. If you didn’t catch my earlier post about it, CiteGenie is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website promises, “automagically” creates Bluebook formatted pinpoint citations when copying from Westlaw. The good news is that CiteGenie now supports LexisNexis …
I’m honored to report that WisBlawg is one of the featured blogs over at Blawg.com. If you’re not familiar with it, Blawg is a portal of legal blogs. It features a search engine for legal blog content, as well as a directory of individual legal blogs. Very useful when you want to find about the …