Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The next time you need to take your car in for repair, check out RepairPal, a new site offering “independent and unbiased repair estimates and user ratings and reviews” of auto repair shops. For example, I learned that an AC recharge for our minivan should cost between $223 and $269. Go to know so that …
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb granted class action status to a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s policy of allowing in-state law graduates to become lawyers without passing the bar exam. Anyone who applies to practice law in Wisconsin within 30 days of graduating from a law school outside the state can join the lawsuit. …
In a new career alternatives feature, Above the Law examines law librarianship. A bit snarky, but pretty much on the money. Worth a look if you’re thinking about a career change. Selections from the AALL Salary Survey are reprinted to answer “the $64,000 question: what’s the pay like?”
Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an interesting article about how SSRN rankings have affected legal academia. Social Science Research Network [is] an increasingly influential site that now offers nearly 150,000 full-text documents for downloading… the texts include pens
Law Librarians: Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the AALL Computing Services-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of …
According to Wisconsin Technology News, Health and Human Services has named named Madison as one of 12 areas that will take part in five-year national Medicare demonstration project to evaluate whether electronic medical records really do improve the quality of health care. Read more from WTN.
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: Looking for documents from a defunct government agency? You might dig it up at the CyberCemetery. This website is a collaboration of the University of North Texas and the GPO. The site is described as “an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct …
The Capital Times reports that Wisconsin residents can now add their cell phone numbers to the state’s No Call List. The next list will go into effect in October. To sign up or for more information, call 1-866-9NO-CALL (1-866-966-2255) or visit https://nocall.wisconsin.gov/web/home.asp.
77 Square, off shoot of The Capital Times, has a great article on how the public libraries in Madison have embraced technology to attract users and stay relevant in the digital age. Libraries were once feared to be headed for obsolescence as the digital age made massive amounts of information accessible from a home computer. …
The latest issue of the Wisconsin Law Review features a thought-provoking examination of state public records law in the digital age. “Wisconsin’s Public-Records Law: Preserving the Presumption of Complete Public Access in the Age of Electronic Records,” by Leanne Holcomb and James Isaac, 2008 Wisconsin Law Review 515 (2008). [The article does not yet appear …