Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Above the Law has launched its latest hotties contest – this time their are looking for hot law librarians. I love it. And UW Law School folks: take a look at the familiar face on the Law School Dean hotties. Source: Depraved Librarian
Justia has launched a database of recently filed Federal District Court civil cases. You can browse by browse by state and/or type of lawsuit or view all recent cases. Search by party name, jurisdiction, type of lawsuit, and within a given date range. BeSpacific reports that according to Justia’s Tim Stanley, there are currently “over …
A colleague sent me a link to this awesome YouTube video, Introducing the Book. Think early – really early – help desk. I laughed out loud.
Consortium is a new law journal that “aims to explore the less-than-scholarly side of the law in an entertaining and hopefully humorous way. You’re not going to find long diatribes about the recent disposition of some obscure case in some far-off jurisdiction. Instead, the diatribes focus on the social aspect of the law, law school, …
Paul Bush of Legal Dockets Online has compiled a list of the courts not using CM/ECF. CM/ECF allows courts to accept filings and provide access to filed documents over the Internet via PACER. He writes: Since CM/ECF systems have been successfully implemented throughout the U.S., some researchers incorrectly assume that all case dockets and filings …
A while back, I was contacted by Chick Markley, VP/Engineering of The Personal Bee, Inc. about a new site called Law Library Buzz, an aggregator for law library blogs. I agreed to sign on as the “Bee Keeper.” There are a couple of pretty neat features of Law Library Buzz. First, there is a single …
LISZEN is a new search engine devoted just to library blogs. It’s brought to you by the good folks at Library Zen. Although I don’t envision myself using it too often, it will be useful when I want to know what librarians think of something – like a database, a vendor, a way of approaching …
Kudos to the ABA for compiling a list of state public Library Databases. Many public libraries now offer extensive database collections free to their patrons. For most libraries these databases can be accessed from a remote computer with a library card ID number. Which means research can be conducted at home or at the office …
This month’s WSLL @ Your Service newsletter from the Wisconsin State Law Library centers around Wisconsin briefs. It contains tips on accessing briefs (including the UW Law Library’s Wisconsin Briefs database) and some interesting information on the history of briefs.
The library recently received a letter from the Wisconsin Legislative Council regarding their newly redesigned web site. It states: Due to fiscal and resource constraints, it is not feasible for this office to keep more than five years of publications on the site. All publications are kept permanently at the Wisconsin Legislative Council offices and …