Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Developed by Dane County and the City of Madison to reduce the amount of waste going to the Dane County Landfill, Madison Stuff Exchange provides area residents and businesses with a convenient way to exchange, re-use, or sell items they no longer need or want. To be eligible to post items, you must live or …
When looking for his own parking citation in CCAP, a UW-Whitewater faculty member was surprised to find a piece of his son’s confidential adoption record, reports JS Online. [CCAP, officially known as the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) database, contains the records of Wisconsin county courts.] “I was stunned,” said [David] Munro, who teaches issues …
It often happens that I’m in my car or walking somewhere when I remember something that I’m supposed to do. Or I think of something that I need to reminder my husband about. And I always seem to be without a pen and paper. That’s why I’m excited about a free new web service called …
Google has announced a new feature in the “About the Book” pages on Google Book Search. It’s called “Places Mentioned in this Book” and it displays an interactive map with pointers to cities and addresses mentioned in the text of the book. From a Google Libraries Group message: Readers can click and drag or zoom …
From the Web site: Criminal Law Decisions Online (CLDO) covers all criminal law decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court and Wisconsin Supreme Court, and published cases of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, from July 1, 1977, through December 15, 2006. This system replicates, in an online format, the Master Compilation of Criminal Law …
According to a government documents listserv email from Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents and Managing Director at the U.S. Government Printing Office, the Judiciary is considering a one year pilot project to assess the effect of offering free public access to PACER through the Federal Depository Library Program. (What’s PACER?) Currently, PACER is available …
Over the last year or so, several search engines have been released that let you search inside books (Google Books, Amazon Search Inside/A9 & MSN Live Book Search). But there has never been a way, until now, to search them all simultaneously. Developer Kokogiak notes that there are some big differences in the type of …
Law.com’s Legal Technology section has a useful article by Robert Ambrogi entitled, Superior Legal Web Sites to Watch. There are a number of good sites listed, but one that struck me was Judicial Reports. Ambrogi writes: What Consumer Reports does for appliances and Zagat does for restaurants, a new Web site aims to do for …
Free Adobe for Legal Professionals eSeminar: In conjunction with LLRX, Adobe is hosting a free eSeminar on Acrobat 8: Top Features for Legal Professionals. The eSeminar, to be be held on Thursday, January 25, 2007,1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Eastern, will cover how to create PDF files from Microsoft Office, the web and other programs, …
From the Christian Science Monitor: How to go to M.I.T. for free By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won’t have to register for the classes, and …