Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This Saturday, Cinematheque is screening the legal classic, Anatomy of a Murder. Saturday, March 29, 7:30 p.m. Anatomy of a Murder USA, 1959, 35mm, b/w, 161 min. Directed by Otto Preminger With James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden The Cinematheque is located at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue, immediately South and East of the …
In the March 2008 NIJ Journal (National Institute of Justice), felony trial judge Donald Shelton explores The ‘CSI Effect’: Does It Really Exist? Based on findings from a survey of jurors in Ann Arbor, Shelton concludes that it does not. Many attorneys, judges, and journalists have claimed that watching television programs like CSI has caused …
Foreclosure Alarm is a new company based out of Madison which offers real-time notifications of all pre-foreclosure filings in Wisconsin. The data is derived from CCAP. From the Attorney Benefits page: Search foreclosure filings based on county, zip code, partial zip code (for metro area matches), plaintiff names and event types. Subscribe to whatever counties …
From MakeUseOf.com: FreezePage lets you take snapshots of web pages and store them for later reference. What makes FreezePage different from other screenshot capture tools is that in addition to screenshots it also saves the exact date and time, page size and more. Thus it can be used as an independent third party tool to …
According to Law.com: Patent attorneys are hailing the Western District of Wisconsin as the nation’s newest so-called rocket docket, characterized by speedy trials and a jury pool friendly to patent holders. Patent case filings are climbing in the district based in Madison, including cases involving companies headquartered outside the area. Lawyers say they’re attracted by …
If you’re planning a little spring cleaning of your personal library, take a look at these clever uses for your old books: Make A Lamp Out of Books (from DIY) Artist and designer Alex Cobb makes a wonderful table lamp out of a stack of books. Look for books that have colorful lettering on the …
Due Process reports that law review articles from Hein Online are now being indexed by Google Scholar. I’ve always liked Google Scholar, but up until recently I haven’t found it particularly helpful for finding law review articles. Until today. I just noticed that Google Scholar now searches HeinOnline, which has one of the largest online …
Carol Bannen, Director of Information Resources at Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, has compiled a useful list of Tips for Monitoring Cases in the March edition of the Wisconsin Lawyer. She describes a range of publications and alert services which will notify legal practitioners of new cases in their practice areas.
Boing Boing reports on Carl Malamud’s investigation of the exclusive deal in which the Government Accountability Office has contracted with Thomson West to provide complete federal legislative histories compiled by GAO law librarians. John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation alerted me to a situation about a month ago that we’ve been pursuing (with EFF’s help) …
For the past few months, I’ve been involved with a project that I’m pleased to finally be able to officially announce: the Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course is sponsored by the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section …