Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to UW Madison News, lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a free lecture, “Reflections of a Man with Two Heads,” at 5 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Room 1100 of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave. From the article: The lecture by Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” “The Burden …
Looks like the Wisconsin State Law Library has an excellent slate of workshops planned this spring and summer. From their Web site: National Library Week Special WSLL Web Tours Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. OR Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. Take a guided tour of the information-packed WSLL website. Explore Wisconsin & Federal …
Litilaw is a new, free online collection of CLE materials and other articles of interest to litigators and other legal professionals. Articles are organized categories including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care, Product Liability, and more. The collection is keyword search-able and all articles are available full-text in PDF format. Search results includes …
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being authenticated. In short, “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?” The answer (from the executive summary): A …
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has created a handy guide to Filing a Petition for Review : A Guide to Seeking Review in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The nine page document is dated October 2006. Abstract: This is a simplified guide to the Wisconsin Rules of Appellate Procedure with respect to filing petitions for review and …
Meg Kribble, a new law librarian at Nova Southeastern University Law Library in south Florida, has recently started blogging at All-Purpose BiblioBlawg. In addition to law, librarianship, and legal research, Meg also blogs about such things as Second Life, Macs, cool YouTube content, and sci fi TV shows. Yay – someone else to talk Star …
Material Information at Hamline reports that “according to the CRS Director Daniel Mulhollan, CRS reports cannot be distributed to ‘non-Congressionals’ without prior approval from CRS officials.” See Mulhollan’s memo. This is quite interesting and troublesome, given that “in 1998, the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration encouraged the publication of CRS Reports on the …
Check out Yahoo News for more on Justice Breyer’s entertaining interview on National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” Being the funniest Supreme Court justice, he said, “is like being one of the shortest tall people.” Better yet, listen to the Show. Source: Findlaw’s Practice Paper
The ABA Journal E-report has an interesting article on the debate surrounding the diploma privilege in Wisconsin. Would-be lawyers who intend to practice in Wisconsin would be well-advised to attend one of the state’s two law schools. That’s because Wisconsin is the only state in the country that still allows graduates of its two law …
Justia just keeps getting better and better. The latest addition, Regulation Tracker allows you to search, browse, and track Federal Register documents. Not only is there a RSS feed for every agency, but you can customize them by type of document or keyword. I just had someone ask me whether a product like this existed …