On the UW Law Library New Book Shelf: Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Chapter one features an “oral history” by Chris Ochoa, entitled “My Life Is a Broken Puzzle.” Currently a law student …
Free Federal District Court Opinions via PACER
PACER is now offering free access to opinions in federal district courts using CM/ECF version 2.4 or higher. CM/ECF is the Federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files System. This applies to the Eastern District of …
Graphical Statutes on Westlaw
West has released Graphical Statutes for the USCA, offering “a visual timeline of a statute’s past, present and future, with links to all underlying documents.” Like graphical KeyCite, this flowcart-like display really helps me understand …
Thin Ice
So how’d they get the sign out there? Posted to Madison Snaps, Isthmus.com
Smurfy Blogs
An observation by Jesse Russell of Dane101: It occurs to me that the word blog is becoming to bloggers what the word smurf was to Smurfs. “I saw the bloggingest blog the other day. It …
Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference Blog
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries has launched its first conference blog. Look for posts by SLAW’s Michael Lines, Vancouver Law Librarian Blog’s Steve Matthews, and Connie Crosby. The CALL conference will be held May …
High Tech, Circa 1986
In going through some files, I found an old issue of Westlaw Password featuring this photo, circa 1986. Bring back any memories? I think that my parents got our first home computer around that time. …
Article: Make the Most of Courtroom Technology
An interesting article on courtroom technology appears in Law.com’s Small Firm Business. The author describes various technologies being used in the courtroom today and the benefits of a paperless presentation. Source: Legal Technology Blog
Happy 70th Anniversary, Federal Register
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Federal Register, our Documents Assistant, Margaret Booth, got a little creative. “In its first year back in 1936, the Register printed 2,620 pages. Today, nearly that many pages …
Good, Fast, or Cheap: Best Two out of Three
The following is based on an article about evaluating information that I wrote for our Law School Newsletter a few years back: First the good news: Legal information may have three desirable characteristics – good, …