Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the State Bar of Wisconsin News: A petition filed on Sept. 25 with the Wisconsin Supreme Court aims to extend the “diploma privilege” to graduates of all ABA-approved law schools or abolish it entirely. Petitioner Steven Levine, a past State Bar of Wisconsin president, and 70 other State Bar members seek to amend SCR …
Amazon is offering a free one year membership to Amazon Prime for college students ($79 value – must have a valid .edu email address). Amazon Prime membership gives you free 2-day shipping on millions of items – including textbooks! I just successfully signed up as a a law student – I know where I’ll be …
On Wednesday, President Obama nominated UW–Madison Law School professor Victoria Nourse to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. From the White House Press Release: Professor Victoria F. Nourse is the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where she joined the faculty in 1993. A prolific scholar with wide-ranging …
On Friday, October 8th, 2010, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host a day-long educational institute at the newly remodeled Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change and LLAW is very pleased to have Professor Robert C. Berring, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Milwaukee Public Library announced today that they now provide an online version of “Foundations in Wisconsin.” Many attorneys who work with nonprofits are very familiar with this directory published by Marquette University. Information available includes details on officers and directors of the foundation, number and amounts of …
According to the Wisconsin State Bar, the Books UnBound electronic library is now complete. See the full list of titles. The Books UnBound product launched in April, but not all of the titles were available yet. They have since all been loaded, tested and are ready to go.
The Wisconsin Office of the Secretary of State maintains a digital archive of state municipal records – some more than 100 years old. Records from Wisconsin’s towns, villages, cities and counties include incorporation papers, charters, annexations, corporate boundaries, maps and litigation correspondence. For example, see this 1921 map of the Original City of Madison with …
I’ve created a Twitter feed for WisBlawg. All WisBlawg blog posts will appear there as well as some additional shorter tweets.
Earlier this year, Fastcase released a free iPhone app which was named 2010 New Product of the Year by the American Association of Law Libraries. Now, Fastcase is set to release an app for iPad also. According to Bob Ambrogi, once Apple gives the OK, the app will launch. Check out the iPad screen shots …
There are a couple of noteworthy legal tech-related articles in this month’s WisBar InsideTrack. The first is part 2 of a series on avoiding ethical pitfalls with electronic documents by Nerino Petro and Bryan Sims. In part 1, the authors discuss hidden information within an electronic document, known as metadata, and how it can expose …