Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The UW Madison Daily Cardinal reports on a new website which pays students for note-taking. Knetwit, the creation of former Babson College fraternity brothers Ben Wald and Tyler Jenks, encourages college students to upload and share study materials for money…. According to the website, Knetwit allows college students and teachers around the world to share …
From the U.S. Courts Newsroom: A new Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was enacted on September 19, focusing on inadvertent disclosure of attorney-client privileged material. The new law limits the consequences of inadvertent disclosure, potentially lowering discovery costs and limiting the need for exhaustive “privilege review.” Text.
Kevin O’Keefe, Wisconsin native and president of LexBlog, has written an excellent article on blogging in this month’s Wisconsin Lawyer. He discusses the benefits of blogging, offers advice for how to get started and what to write about, tips on designing a blog, and more. Definitely worth a read if you’ve been thinking about starting …
The University of Michigan Shapiro Library is the first university library to install the Espresso Book Machine. The book print machine produces paperback books on demand. From the press release: The book machine, located in the Shapiro Library lobby on U-M’s Central Campus, prints out-of-copyright books from the University’s digitized collections. At a cost of …
From the latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series as published by SSRN. Who Says Shari’a Demands the Stoning of Women? A Description of Islamic Law and Constitutionalism by Asifa Quraishi, University of Wisconsin Law School A Sociolegal History of Public Housing Reform in Chicago by Lisa T. Alexander, University …
SnackUpon creates a customized RSS feed that delivers content you might like based on your Delicious bookmarks. Read more at Lifehacker. I was curious about this so I created and subscribed to a feed based on my Delicious account. I was surprised by the volume and variety of the sites that it suggested. Nothing particularly …
Editor Mark Estes has launched the AALL Spectrum Blog, “a tool to continue the conversation about law librarianship and the opportunities we face.” AALL Spectrum is the monthly magazine of the American Association of Law Libraries.
“Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post on the Web,” writes Robert Pear of the New York Times. This confusion is causing alarm among historians, archivists, librarians, …
The Wisconsin court system has created a new, interactive small claims website for the public. This user-friendly program is intended to provide an inexpensive alternative for people in need of small claims assistance but who do not have an attorney. The website guides users through a series of questions, and the Summons and Complaint form …
Jureeka! is a new Firefox add-on that looks for legal citations in ordinary web pages and turns them into hyperlinks that lead to a free version of the cited source. Pretty nifty. You can download it at the Jureeka! blog, but you’ll need to register first. It apparently works for statutes, case law, regulations, federal …