Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to the latest InsideTrack, the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin has created an Appellate Brief Filing Checklist outlining requirements to help lawyers during the brief-writing process. The first part is a checklist with boxes permitting practitioners literally to check off the items as they are included in a brief, and …
Today, the UW Madison libraries are releasing a new Library Catalog. It has been available for beta testing for some time, but today marks it’s official debut. Here are some highlights: intuitive interface for fast discovery powerful limits and narrowing for all searches seamless portal to all UW System libraries easy access to your account …
Emily Marcum of Lightfoot of Franklin & White, LLC recently conducted a study comparing the pricing models of WestlawNext v Westlaw Classic. Although the full study is not available, the abstract from SSRN appears below: WestlawNext and Classic were each used exclusively in transactional mode for eight days. Cost to the client was assessed using …
From WisBar’s InsideTrack: A state rule of appellate procedure that allows attorneys to cite unpublished Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions as persuasive authority will continue unchanged, the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently concluded…. Under Wis. Stat. section 809.23(3)(b), only unpublished opinions issued on or after July 1, 2009, which are authored by a member of a …
Law School Transparency is a legal education policy organization. Their mission is to improve consumer information concerning the value of legal education and to usher in consumer-oriented reforms to the current law school model. They have recently released a graphical database of employment statistics for all ABA-accredited schools, including Wisconsin.
Congrats to WisconsinEye on its fifth anniversary. WisconsinEye brings gavel-to-gavel, C-SPAN-style nonpartisan coverage of state government and politics to Wisconsin.
Take a look at what life is like at UW Madison and particularly the Law School. The Law School contributed a number of posts to the #UWRightNow campaign, a collaborative multimedia project coordinated by University Communications to chronicle 24 hours at UW–Madison — midnight to midnight on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. You can see them …
My UW Law Library colleague, Jenny Zook, has recently published a very well written article in this month’s AALL Spectrum. The article entitled, Retirements in the Age of Economic Uncertainty, offers an insightful look at how librarian retirements have and have not affected retirees and law libraries.
The Wisconsin State Journal has compiled an interactive online voter guide for the spring general elections in Dane County. It allows Dane County residents to type in their address and call up a ballot with only those races that apply to their address. Then the ballot shows the candidates, their races, and their own statements …
Today’s On This Day in Wisconsin History features the passage of a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature prohibiting denial of admission to the bar on the basis of gender. Here’s more from the State Historical Society: R. Lavinia Goodell was the first woman admitted to the Wisconsin State Bar in 1897. Goodell had first applied …