This morning, Anne Reed of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC appeared on Lake Effect, a program on Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM. In the ten minute interview, Anne discusses the phenomenon of blogging jurors. Really …
Tools for Finding Old Web Pages
Determining if and how a Web site has changed can be an important factor in litigation. Many of you probably know about a wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine which archives sites and displays them …
Wisconsin Law Journal Site Has New Look, New Features
About a week ago, the Wisconsin Law Journal unveiled a new Web site. Besides a sleek new look, WLJ has introduced some sweet new features including several new blogs and a handful of RSS feeds. …
World's Weirdest Cases and Dumbest Laws
Weirdest Cases: The Times (of London) Online is kicking off it’s new column, Weird Cases, with a list of the columnist’s top twenty “favourite bizarre disputes, prosecutions and lawsuits.” Number one? Right here in Wisconsin, …
Some Law Enforcement Records Could be Shielded from Open Records Requests per Assembly Bill
“A pending bill in the Legislature could have a broad silencing effect on Wisconsin open records law,” says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Assembly Bill 522 would shield from all open records requests certain law-enforcement records …
Disposable Phone Numbers
There is a service called Numbr (formerly Craigsnumber) that provides free disposable phone numbers. You say how long you need the number (one hour to one month) and tell it to what real phone number(s) …
Dissertation Calculator Suggests Manageable Deadlines
Have a dissertation looming in your future and don’t know where to start? Check out the Dissertation Calculator developed by the UW Madison CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing). Simply enter your start date …
Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines Changed
From the Christian Science Monitor: This week the US Sentencing Commission, with little fanfare, officially reduced its recommended sentences for crack-related offenses. The commission announced last spring that it intended to make the change, and …
Free Ethics CLE to be Held at Law School
A free Professional Ethics CLE Program will be held at the UW Law School this Wednesday, November 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 P.M in room 7200 (Lubar Commons). Three Ethics CLE credits for Wisconsin lawyers …
New Business Database Availability from Madison & Milwaukee Public Libraries
Two business databases available to public library card holders have just been announced: Value Line from the Milwaukee Public Library Value Line, a popular online database for investors, is now available remotely through the Milwaukee …