Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
This month, the Bartell Theatre is featuring a new play about the first female lawyer in Wisconsin. “Lavinia” debuts March 19-21 in Madison before moving on to Janesville, Wausau, and Superior. From the State Bar of Wisconsin announcement: In 1879, Lavinia Goodell made history by becoming the first female lawyer admitted to the bar in …
There is a very interesting article in the Washington Post on Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. According to the article: Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say millennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same …
A great new addition the world of legal research is the recently launched Collateral Consequences database from the ABA. With it, legal researchers can search across all 50 states and federal jurisdictions to discover and analyze how collateral consequences impact individuals with criminal convictions. These consequences can be hard to nail down and were certainly …
Recently, Congress.gov launched several email alert services that allow you to track federal legislative information. First, the legislation alert allows you to track action on a particular bill. When viewing a bill in Congress.gov, click on the “Get alerts” link under the title to set up your alert. Next, you can get an alert when …
Scholarly blogs can be a very good source for legal and other research but identifying them from among the multitude of web content can be difficult. A new search engine called the ACI Scholarly Blog Index now makes that task a little easier. The site indexes scholarly and authoritative blogs from experts in all fields …
Coming on the heels of Hein’s new Author Profile pages that Bonnie detailed last week comes Hein’s ScholarRank. This interesting tool gives users a glimpse at which Hein authors are not only cited the most by other articles and cases, but also have the most views of their own articles. Basically, ScholarRank is trying to …
HeinOnline has added a new author profile feature in their Law Journal Library that allows readers to to view more information about authors and allows authors to showcase their work. To access the profile page for a particular author, open the Law Journal Library and search for an author. From the search results, click the …
Eileen Snyder of the Wisconsin Historical Society has put together a useful post on the new session of the Wisconsin Legislature. It includes information such as a list of state officers, salaries of state elected officials, a guide to the legislative process, and budget and informational papers. It also includes a link to the 2015-16 …
Within the next week, the UW Law Library will be introducing a new website redesign. The new site features a slimmed-down look and a more user friendly design – we hope! Here’s a sneak preview. In conjunction with the new library website, WisBlawg will also be getting a facelift along with a new URL. The …
Looking for a legal dictionary for your mobile device? Law Technology News has a good review of apps for both the legal professional and the non-lawyer. Apps are available in both iOS and Android and range from free to $55. Here’s a sneak preview of the review First, some words of advice on downloading law …