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From Blog 702: You get some interesting e-mail when you run a web site. The following correspondence should be of interest to anyone looking for a one-month vacation from time sheets, voice-mail messages, and senior partners: If you are a male prosecutor or former prosecutor between the ages of 30-50 who is interested in participating …

Martindale.com has recently added the option for law firms to include diversity profiles with their listings. According to a Business Wire article, this new online marketing offering “helps law firms improve their business development outreach to prospective clients and enhance their recruiting efforts for fresh legal talent.” To view a profile, check the “Search only …

RSS fans will be pleased to learn that CNN has created a bunch of RSS feeds. Categories include top stories, most popular, law, technology and more. CNN Money RSS feeds are also available. Source: Library Stuff

According to the January issue of Inside the Bar, free computerized legal research is available to attorneys and law students performing pro bono work in Wisconsin. The State Bar and LexisNexis™ partnership provides free use of Lexis Nexis in 15-minute increments up to a 60-minute maximum. Users can conduct research from their office, home, or …

Update 1/19/05: It appears that “Cost-Effective Canadian Legal Research: Finding Free Canadian Legal Materials on the Internet” is now available on the Wisconsin Law Journal Web site. For anyone needing to do Canadian legal research, check out the December 29th issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal. Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Heidi Kuehl has …

WestCiteLink has been around for a while. It’s a software application that automatically finds the legal citations in your word-processing documents and links them to the full text documents on Westlaw. But I recently learned that it is also available for Internet Explorer. Imagine that you are viewing a Web page which contains a legal …

Through its Wisconsin Legislative Action Center (Capwiz) service, the Wisconsin State Bar offers action alerts on important legislative issues. According to Deb Sybell, Government Relations Coordinator at the Wisconsin State Bar, the action alerts are “intended to mobilize our State Bar membership when an important issue is before the Legislature. Those attorneys who sign up …

Get ready for a trip down memory lane, Milwaukeeans. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Special Collections department (my alma mater) has compiled an interesting collection entitled Greetings from Milwaukee. The collection contains digital images of the city – some quirky – produced by two Milwaukee-based postcard publishers, the L.L. Cook Company and the E.C. Kropp Company. …

The Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association has released their 2004 picks for the Best Free Reference Web Sites. Of particular interest may be: Pew Internet & American Life According to its mission statement, the Pew Internet & American Life Project makes available “original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet …

Although it’s not new, I’ve recently learned about a service called Courthouse News Service (CNS). A news wire for lawyers, CNS employs a network of correspondents who file daily reports covering new appellate rulings, new legislation and new civil cases from the federal and state courts with the most prolific and weighty litigation. Much of …