Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Law.com reports that the 7th Circuit has recently created a wiki. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the project, “the goal is to concentrate on procedure (in both the court of appeals and the district courts) but not to cover substance.” To contribute to the wiki, see the Registration page. Source: Slaw
I’ve just learned that the handouts, podcasts, and photos are now available for the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium held last week at Chicago Kent.
There is a good article in the Capital Times extolling the virtues of the Madison Public Library’s (the South Central Library System’s actually) hold system. Maybe it’s not as fast or convenient as Netflix, but the Madison Public Library allows its users to go online and put holds on movies, but also TV series, books, …
I’m back from Chicago Kent where I attended the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. I was unable to live blog the afternoon sessions, so I’ll share a few thoughts now. Right after lunch, I participated on a panel with Professors Doug Berman of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State …
At the mid-morning session at the Back to the Future Symposium, we learned about the results from various practitioner and librarian surveys regarding legal research practices. Speakers were Sanford Greenberg and Tom Gaylord of Chicago-Kent College of Law and Patrick Meyer of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. There was a lot of interesting data presented, …
I’m down in Chicago today attending the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. The morning session has been very thought provoking. We heard from Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries who spoke about efforts (or lack thereof) of state and federal governments to provide official, authentic legal materials in …
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included is Should Legal Research Be Included on the Bar Exam? An Exploration of the Question by the UW Law Library’s …
Although the site still says it’s under construction, WisconsinEye is scheduled to broadcast its first live gavel-to-gavel Internet coverage of the state Assembly and Senate at 11 a.m. today. According to JSOnline PoliticsWatch: WisconsinEye has also finalized agreements for digital channels to be available on the Charter and TimeWarner cable system in Wisconsin, said WisconsinEye …
The New York Times reports that Reuters agreed today to a “$17.2 billion takeover by Thomson that would vault the combined entity ahead of Bloomberg to become the world’s largest financial data and news provider.” ”The companies will be separate legal entities but will be managed and operated as if they were a single economic …
The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film, the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians, is scheduled to premier at American Library Association (ALA) 2007 Annual Conference June 21-27 in Washington, D.C. From the web site: The Hollywood Librarian is a unique and charming blend of film …