Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Associated Press reports Courts To Test Offering Trial Tapes Online. The federal judiciary panel has approved a pilot program to make audio recordings of court proceedings available online for free. Although a court’s participation in the program is voluntary, U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, the executive committee chairman of the policy-making Judicial Conference, …
The latest edition of the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series is now available via the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN) – Vol. 3, No. 1: March 16, 2007 Table of Contents: – “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited” HERBERT M. KRITZER University of Wisconsin, Madison – Department of Accounting and Information Systems …
Apparently, as of March 13th, the New York Times has opened up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses. See the sign up for more information. TimesSelect provides access to The NYT archive dating back to 1851, op-ed columnists, news tracker, and more.
Findlaw has a very interesting article on Why are Women — and Generation X and Y Attorneys Generally -Leaving Large Law Firms? The piece is a follow-up to a provocative article in the California Lawyer. From the article: On average, almost a fifth of associates (male and female) leave their law firms each year — …
Thanks to Blawg for the link to the Practical RSS video clip, An Introduction To RSS… In just seven minutes, the video does an excellent job of explaining what RSS is and how to use it. Well worth a few minutes of your time if you’ve been wanting to learn more about RSS. And after …
Steve Meili and the UW–Madison Consumer Law Clinic are featured in the latest issue of The Wisconsin Idea. Students gain an awareness of the life situation of the clients,” says Meili. “What might seem like a fairly simple legal problem is really much more complicated. It is important for students and lawyer to realize you …
A few weeks ago, I reported that the UW Law Library will be hosting on our web site Wisconsin Legislative Council documents back to 1996. According to our Head of Cataloging, Cindy May, these documents are now available via the MadCat Library Catalog. They can be searched in MadCat by author, title, subject, series, or …
JS Online reports that, according to a provision in the budget bill, …The director of state courts would be given authority to “establish and charge fees for use of the circuit court automated information systems created under this section.” Left unstated are who would be charged, how much they would be charged and how often… …
JS Online reports that, according to a provision in the budget bill, …The director of state courts would be given authority to “establish and charge fees for use of the circuit court automated information systems created under this section.” Left unstated are who would be charged, how much they would be charged and how often… …
From UW Libraries Head of Communication, Don Johnson: Alando Tucker, Wisconsin men’s basketball senior forward and National Player of the Year finalist, is the focus of the newest READ poster created by the UW–Madison Libraries, which is in press. The photo for the 18″ x 24″ poster, a promotion for the upcoming National Library Week …