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The new Dane County Juvenile Court Resource Booklet is now available on the county’s Web site or can be purchased from the Dane Co. Legal Resource Center for $2.00. The DCLRC is located at Rm 315–210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Madison, WI 53703 or call (608) 266-6316. The 37 page booklet covers delinquency, TPR, adoption, …

Beginning March 1st, Wisconsinites can request a free copy of their credit report once every twelve months. You may request your report online, by calling 1-877-322-8228, or via mail by printing and completing the request form and mailing it to: Annual Credit Report Request Service P.O. Box 105281 Atlanta, GA 30348-5281 For more information, see …

The Associated Press has begun offering RSS feeds in a variety of topics. They are: Featured Feed – Pope John Paul II – RSS Top News – RSS U.S. National – RSS World – RSS Politics – RSS Washington – RSS Business – RSS Technology – RSS Sports – RSS Entertainment – RSS Health – …

The March 2005 edition of the DCLRC Docket from the Dane County Legal Resource Center is now available. Circulation is highlighted this month.

Madison.com has created an RSS feed for the articles that appear on its home page. This includes stories from the Wisconsin State Journal, The Capital Times, NBC News, etc. As you can imagine with articles from multiple sources there tends to be duplication of topics. But according to Timothy Nott from Madison.com, they will soon …

Searching Smarter: Finding Legal Resources on the Invisible Web has been reprinted in The Colorado Lawyer’s February 2005 issue. The text is available only to members of the Colorado Bar Association. However, the original article, which appeared in the September 2004 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer is still available on their site.

The Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records for the 2003/2004 session have recently been added to the UW Law Library’s drafting records database which is freely available on the Web. The documents are available in PDF format. A guide to using the collection is also available. Drafting records are written materials, letters, and memoranda given to or …

Peter Cannon, whom many know was a legislative analyst at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), has recently retired after 26 years. Cannon Research Service, a legislative research service, is his latest endeavor. Cannon shared some information about the service in a Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin Newsletter article (p. 8): Since the LRB’s primary …

Wisconsin Deputy Revisor of Statutes, Bruce Hoesly, informs me that the 1979 through 1987 Wisconsin Statutes have been added to the RSB web site. Links to the statutes in PDF format appear at the bottom of the page. The RSB plans to also add statutes from 1969-1977 within the next couple of months.

Findlaw reports that a lawyer who missed a court date because his spam blocker blocked the court’s email notice will not be sanctioned. For more, read the full article. Source: The Practice Paper